Venue for August 8th

[Real Quiet]

I guess it will be Saratoga once again since they are running the Travers. Entries are not up yet so the number of races is up for discussion. Suggestions are welcome once the card is released. Due to a storm yesterday I am without power at my home. Projected fix is August 10th. Oh Boy. Hope you other Jerseyites and JB and Plen fared better. 2020 keeps getting better and better.

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by Real Quiet

I guess it will be Saratoga once again since they are running the Travers. Entries are not up yet so the number of races is up for discussion. Suggestions are welcome once the card is released. Due to a storm yesterday I am without power at my home. Projected fix is August 10th. Oh Boy. Hope you other Jerseyites and JB and Plen fared better. 2020 keeps getting better and better.

YIKES, hate to hear that RQ Like you, I hope all others in the storms path are OK!!!

[cal828]

Originally Posted by Real Quiet

I guess it will be Saratoga once again since they are running the Travers. Entries are not up yet so the number of races is up for discussion. Suggestions are welcome once the card is released. Due to a storm yesterday I am without power at my home. Projected fix is August 10th. Oh Boy. Hope you other Jerseyites and JB and Plen fared better. 2020 keeps getting better and better.

Hope you've got a generator. Here in Hot Springs, we used to have a power outage every winter about the time of Oaklawn's opening day. Finally broke down and bought a generator. Haven't had one of those ice storms, that caused the power outage, since and good thing because I couldn't get my generator to start for the last couple of years. Couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. Kept thinking it was a fuel problem. Very frustrating. Thought about donating it to Good Will, but my tax man said, it wouldn't really help all that much with my taxes. Got to hoping somebody would steal it, so I could make an insurance claim, but just when you need your neighbors to be criminal, they won't cooperate. Anyway, kept messing with it and finally it started right up. Apparently, it was a loose spark plug wire. I am a seriously mechanically challenged person.

[Real Quiet]

It's always strange when Joly doesn't weigh in on a topic. For those that don't know JB has only missed two contests in ten + years. Once for a hurricane and once for a blizzard if memory serves me right. On a Breeders Cup weekend no less. With that being said the venue on Saturday will be Saratoga. Since races 1 and 12 are for maidens let's just do 2 through 11. Let us hope Travers day is kinder to our wallets.

[RUFFIAN]

i find it a bit sad to see Stakes entries at Saratoga on Travers day
***** 7--7--7--6--8 *****

You would think there should be more challengers on such a big day

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by RUFFIAN-333

i find it a bit sad to see Stakes entries at Saratoga on Travers day
***** 7--7--7--6--8 *****

You would think there should be more challengers on such a big day

Is the series of numbers some kind of code you want us to figure out? Likely has some meaning I hope.

[RUFFIAN]

“...Is the series of numbers some kind of code you want us to figure out?
Likely has some meaning I hope.”
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- x x

Obviously the reference is how many starters in the stakes races

Entries in R7–8–9–10–11 = 7-7-7-6-8

I wish I could offer a more magical mystery explanation

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by Real Quiet

It's always strange when Joly doesn't weigh in on a topic. For those that don't know JB has only missed two contests in ten + years. Once for a hurricane and once for a blizzard if memory serves me right. On a Breeders Cup weekend no less. With that being said the venue on Saturday will be Saratoga. Since races 1 and 12 are for maidens let's just do 2 through 11. Let us hope Travers day is kinder to our wallets.

I just talked to Joly, his phone service is OK but he is out of power after the storm. He said initially 700K homes lost power and now down to a mere 500K still out of which he is one. He and his wife are AOK, no water as well since they have a well that runs on an electric pump. He'll back as soon as the power switch is turned on in his area.