War Pass (102 BSF Sunday)

[outofthebox]

That's cool. Better for the weekend crowd to get a look at the 2yo champ.

[Linny]

It was scheduled for a weekend day anyhow.

[outofthebox]

Originally Posted by Linny

It was scheduled for a weekend day anyhow.

You're correct. Curious to why they did not use the race for saturday and put it back on the overnight for Sunday. The office is probably looking for a few more palms to grease to get the race to go.

[Monarchos1]

The race as scheduled for Saturday did not fill. GP had only two other entries besides War Pass as of the start of today's 8th race. Zito was prepared to enter another from his stable, but it was evidently a runner from LaPenta that would have been coupled with War Pass and not given GP the desired 4 separate betting interests. The race was moved because it did not fill and they will evidently try again to round up enough runners to make this go. The scene at GP was not a happy one late this afternoon.

[justindew]

I remember when Sunday Break was entered in an allowance race as a prep for the Wood. Drysdale didn't even let anyone know the horse was on the grounds so that the race would fill. Considering everyone and his mother knew this race was War Pass' debut spot, I can't believe they got any other entries.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Monarchos1

The race as scheduled for Saturday did not fill. GP had only two other entries besides War Pass as of the start of today's 8th race. Zito was prepared to enter another from his stable, but it was evidently a runner from LaPenta that would have been coupled with War Pass and not given GP the desired 4 separate betting interests. The race was moved because it did not fill and they will evidently try again to round up enough runners to make this go. The scene at GP was not a happy one late this afternoon.

That's not the version I heard. Considering Gulfstream routinely doesn't have their overnight out until very late in the day I imagine they often have trouble filling cards.

[Monarchos1]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

That's not the version I heard. Considering Gulfstream routinely doesn't have their overnight out until very late in the day I imagine they often have trouble filling cards.

I was at GP and got the word from management there. Every other track in the east already had their entries out and GP was still scrambling to find more runners for this particular race. Besides War Pass, there was an entry from Walder and one other. There don't appear to be many horsemen who want to do favors for this racing office.

[lemoncrush]

Had it been Race 10 on Saturday as originally planned, it would have been an easy single in the Magna 5.

Do they allow cross-entering in races on the same day at GP?
I wonder if anyone planning on going in the FOY would scratch if they got the far outside post and went in this race instead (if they met the conditions of the Allowance race, of course).