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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
when the wind is 'N-NW at 20 MPH or more' are days when a backstretch headwind is most obvious.
You get a 30 MPH N-NW wind - and you start seeing the opening quarter of 6f races on the Inner going in 23.80 and 24.20 - while the opening quarters of 8.5f races are going in 22.90 and 23.20 on the same card.
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This was pretty close to what happened today. You had a 31 MPH NW wind. Eight years ago or so - they braved through some Saturday cards at AQU Inner with published winds of 30 MPH or more and in even colder weather than that. Jocks don't have the heart they once did.