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Old 11-25-2011, 04:52 AM
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His typical worthless column when he's not doing a human interest story.

Hovdey is very good at writing. He should stick to his human interest stories and fluff garbage.

Any other writer at DRF would have done a much better job at knocking the win streak.

* This gem from his last column:

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For the most part, every round of barrel racing is a variation on a very narrow theme – just as six-furlong races at Charles Town in November can start to look a lot alike – but the sport is intimate, and there’s always a chance one of the horses will go to buck-jumping or sunfishing, then tear off for the barn while shedding his rider against the railing of a pipe-pen chute.
How do six-furlong races at Charles Town "look a lot alike" when they don't even run 6f races at CT? The one-turn races are 4.5 furlongs and the two-turn races are 6.5f and 7f.

* This from his current column:

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His justifiably proud trainer, David Wells, did not help matters much when he said, in the wake of RR’s 20th straight last Monday at Charles Town, “We’re still eyeing Citation’s record.”
Mountaineer, not Charles Town. At least you got the state correct anyway.
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