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[hockey2315]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

How does it work? Please enlighten me.

What evidence do you have that the track was slowing down? It has been open for what? Three days before this? Are you basing this on what was going on months ago before the extreme drought? I guess we'll just assume every horse ran their top and work it out that way. . . It's obviously going to be a tough fig to make, and one that won't really tell us anything.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by hockey2315

What evidence do you have that the track was slowing down? It has been open for what? Three days before this? Are you basing this on what was going on months ago before the extreme drought? I guess we'll just assume every horse ran their top and work it out that way. . . It's obviously going to be a tough fig to make, and one that won't really tell us anything.

One of my trainers at Churchill mentioned it to me when we ran a horse at Churchill in June on a Friday night. And so far this meet, it has looked the same way. On opening day (last Sunday), I think the track slowed down quite a bit over the course of the day. Some really good 2 year olds (allowance horses with stakes potential) ran 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:19 late in the day and the final race of the day (a 2 year old MSW) went in 1:13 2/5. Earlier in the day, the MSWs were running much faster.