Weekend Stakes Beyers

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Miner's Reserve and Radiohead are up on the Beyer leaderboard - both with 94's ... looked like an easy day to be a figure maker with 5 dirt races at 1-mile carded in a span of 7 races .. it turned out to be a miserable one and Beyer opted for a variant split.

Hard to disagree with it ... but also hard to trust much regarding anyones figures from yesterdays card.

[Betsy]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Miner's Reserve and Radiohead are up on the Beyer leaderboard - both with 94's ... looked like an easy day to be a figure maker with 5 dirt races at 1-mile carded in a span of 7 races .. it turned out to be a miserable one and Beyer opted for a variant split.

Hard to disagree with it ... but also hard to trust much regarding anyones figures from yesterdays card.

Why is that? Thanks.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

The weather was dicy ... wind and some rain ... I thought I heard Desormeaux say something about the wind changing or dying out as well .. but I wasn't paying any attention to the tv interview he was doing at the time.

The track maintenance crew also could have done some work to the main track in the hour gap after race 4 through before race 7 - as races 5 and 6 were both on the turf.

Either way ... it certainly appears as the main track was yielding slower than expected times at that point. It turns things regarding time into a guessing game ... and even with a very educated guess, it's still best to monitor those races going forward and conclude later. The commerical figure makers have to put a number to every race .. they get paid to do so .. I don't.

[Betsy]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

The weather was dicy ... wind and some rain ... I thought I heard Desormeaux say something about the wind changing or dying out as well .. but I wasn't paying any attention to the tv interview he was doing at the time.

The track maintenance crew also could have done some work to the main track in the hour gap after race 4 through before race 7 - as races 5 and 6 were both on the turf.

Either way ... it certainly appears as the main track was yielding slower than expected times at that point. It turns things regarding time into a guessing game ... and even with a very educated guess, it's still best to monitor those races going forward and conclude later. The commerical figure makers have to put a number to every race .. they get paid to do so .. I don't.

Thanks! I think Mike Welsch had mentioned basically the same things in blog yesterday. I remember posting here that the Sabin was an awful race because they ran a second slower than the maidens, but perhaps I was wrong. I think you can at least compare the 2 maiden races and Radiohead's wins to each other, even if not to the two stakes races. In that sense, Miner's Reserve ran very well.

[VOL JACK]

Originally Posted by Betsy

Why is that? Thanks.

Weather issues = constant changing track.

[Gaelic Storm]

Looks there may have been a timer issue in the Miner's Reserve race. Checked the chart and there is only a final time. I checked the replay and they only showed a first quarter time.

[Indian Charlie]

Perhaps the people at GP are tards?

[Betsy]

Originally Posted by Gaelic Storm

Looks there may have been a timer issue in the Miner's Reserve race. Checked the chart and there is only a final time. I checked the replay and they only showed a first quarter time.

Do they have people who clock the races manually? Not that it's a big deal as it was just a maiden race, but I admit I'm curious about the fractions.

[DaTruth]

What was the Beyer received by Seeking the Title when winning the 8th at Fair Grounds on Sunday? Thanks.

[richard]

in the Miracle Wood that 2nd place horse came from the back of the pack. Regal Warrior ran well shifting paths in deep stretch.

[Gaining Ground]

Originally Posted by DaTruth

What was the Beyer received by Seeking the Title when winning the 8th at Fair Grounds on Sunday? Thanks.

85, good looking filly