Strong field shaping up for Woodbine Mile

[CSC]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Great that Famous Name is making the trip.

Very, very nice horse.

Other Euros..

Redwood (Barry Hills is the trainer. He was just 2nd in the Prix de Deauville) is going to the Northern Dancer and Latin Love (David Wachman. Won her last race at the Curragh) to the Canadian Stakes.

I usually like the Euro's but Famous Name will not be one of my choices, didn't he just race weeks ago against Twice Over and Rip Van Winkle?

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by CSC

I usually like the Euro's but Famous Name will not be one of my choices, didn't he just race weeks ago against Twice Over and Rip Van Winkle?

Yes, but the the turf was firm/yielding.

[CSC]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

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.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by CSC

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.

[clyde]

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.

[CSC]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

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?

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by CSC1985

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?

[CSC]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

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.