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Old 09-14-2010, 11:53 AM
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Yes, but the the turf was firm/yielding.
This is no joke, but you would think with the progression of various technological advances in human civilization, horseracing in NA still depends on a simplistic, soft, yielding, good and firm ratings for it's description of turf races.

Regardless I am happy a yielding turf course still yielded a time of 1:03 and change for a 5 1/2 furlong sprint for the past Spa meet. That's your good/yielding course for you.
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Old 09-14-2010, 12:06 PM
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This is no joke, but you would think with the progression of various technological advances in human civilization, horseracing in NA still depends on a simplistic, soft, yielding, good and firm ratings for it's description of turf races.

Regardless I am happy a yielding turf course still yielded a time of 1:03 and change for a 5 1/2 furlong sprint for the past Spa meet. That's your good/yielding course for you.
Last time I checked, rollseyes, 103 and change for a turf sprint, rollseyes, is pretty slow, rollseyes.
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Old 09-14-2010, 12:20 PM
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The Canadian Spaceship program has been scrubbed.The mere mention of one mile made it dizzy.



In its place,they are now buidling a pseudo universe in the vast,unpopulated bread basket area of Canada.

When completed;they will land Canadian Helicopters on the moon and Canadian Satellites ( giant jacks) will pierce the far reaches of Andromeda.





Should be fun.
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Old 09-14-2010, 01:12 PM
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Last time I checked, rollseyes, 103 and change for a turf sprint, rollseyes, is pretty slow, rollseyes.
For a simple minded person 1:03 may be considered slow for 5 1/2 furlongs. Let's just assume they ran the last 1/2 furlong in a more than respectable 6 seconds. Can you do the math and guess how fast they ran 5 f, still think that's slow?
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Old 09-14-2010, 02:07 PM
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For a simple minded person 1:03 may be considered slow for 5 1/2 furlongs. Let's just assume they ran the last 1/2 furlong in a more than respectable 6 seconds. Can you do the math and guess how fast they ran 5 f, still think that's slow?
Assuming your super sonic race over the yielding/firm turf went 103.3 and the last 1/16th was in 6 seconds, then the 5f was run in a putrid 57.3.

While 57.3 on dirt might be real nice, on most turf courses, that's crawling.

For instance, in the first race on the last day of Toga, 25k claimers went 55.2 and 101. In other words, your idea of yielding giving fast times is actually more than a full two seconds slower.

In the fourth race that day, a minor stakes, the 5f and final times were 54.4 and 100.4.

That's almost 3 full seconds faster than your blazing fast idea of what a yielding turf course is.

Are you really this stupid?
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Old 09-14-2010, 02:21 PM
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Assuming your super sonic race over the yielding/firm turf went 103.3 and the last 1/16th was in 6 seconds, then the 5f was run in a putrid 57.3.

While 57.3 on dirt might be real nice, on most turf courses, that's crawling.

For instance, in the first race on the last day of Toga, 25k claimers went 55.2 and 101. In other words, your idea of yielding giving fast times is actually more than a full two seconds slower.

In the fourth race that day, a minor stakes, the 5f and final times were 54.4 and 100.4.

That's almost 3 full seconds faster than your blazing fast idea of what a yielding turf course is.

Are you really this stupid?
Bottom line here is, you said running 57 and change or 1:03 and change for 5 and 5 1/2 furlongs was slow as to indicate I can only speculate the course was a boggy wet mess ie. yielding as listed. I don't know what world you are living in, but this does not indicate it is a slow & soft course. Is it slower than a hard rock/rainless turf course, obvious answer. But was it run in a bog... Have a nice time talking your way out of this one.
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Old 09-14-2010, 02:37 PM
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Bottom line here is, you said running 57 and change or 1:03 and change for 5 and 5 1/2 furlongs was slow as to indicate I can only speculate the course was a boggy wet mess ie. yielding as listed. I don't know what world you are living in, but this does not indicate it is a slow & soft course. Is it slower than a hard rock/rainless turf course, obvious answer. But was it run in a bog... Have a nice time talking your way out of this one.
I'll try talking my way out of this one once you try to talk your way into this one.

Dude, 3 seconds difference at a short sprint distance is enormous.

By the way, I forgot to mention. Everytime one of your posts comes up on my screen, the theme music from that old Dragnet show plays.

Duhhhmb, duh dumb dumb.
Duhhhmb, duh dumb dumb DUUUUMB.
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Dude, 3 seconds difference at a short sprint distance is enormous.
Oh come on now, what's 12 or 15 lengths at 5.5 furlongs between friends?

Splitting hairs.
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I'll try talking my way out of this one once you try to talk your way into this one.

Dude, 3 seconds difference at a short sprint distance is enormous.

By the way, I forgot to mention. Everytime one of your posts comes up on my screen, the theme music from that old Dragnet show plays.

Duhhhmb, duh dumb dumb.
Duhhhmb, duh dumb dumb DUUUUMB.
I agree DUuuMB is a great word for you.
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Old 09-14-2010, 02:38 PM
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Are you really this stupid?
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Bottom line here is, you said running 57 and change or 1:03 and change for 5 and 5 1/2 furlongs was slow as to indicate I can only speculate the course was a boggy wet mess ie. yielding as listed. I don't know what world you are living in, but this does not indicate it is a slow & soft course. Is it slower than a hard rock/rainless turf course, obvious answer. But was it run in a bog... Have a nice time talking your way out of this one.
So, your final answer to my question above is yes?
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