Pick 3 scratch fun

[JJP]

That situation at Hawthorne really angered me. I was alive to 3 horses in the last leg of the P3, and all ended up scratching. I got stuck with the favorite, who I didn't like at all. Why can't the tracks just adopt Pinnacle's policy and just refund money on scratched horses?

[philcski]

Originally Posted by JJP

That situation at Hawthorne really angered me. I was alive to 3 horses in the last leg of the P3, and all ended up scratching. I got stuck with the favorite, who I didn't like at all. Why can't the tracks just adopt Pinnacle's policy and just refund money on scratched horses?

Illinois policy is you scratch into the favorite? That totally blows on a situation like that, where they take it off the turf.

[JJP]

That's Illinois' rules, and I know they aren't the only state with "scratch and you get the chalk" philosophy.

What's further upsetting was they ran the 5th race on the grass and the weather was perfectly clear. Right before the 8th, for some reason, they took the 9th off the grass.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by JJP

That's Illinois' rules, and I know they aren't the only state with "scratch and you get the chalk" philosophy.

What's further upsetting was they ran the 5th race on the grass and the weather was perfectly clear. Right before the 8th, for some reason, they took the 9th off the grass.

i may just not be familiar with the illinois racing statutes exactly, but it seems extra weird that MY pick-4 did not transfer to the post time favorite, but YOUR pick-3 did? That's crazy.

I wouldn't have taken Cowboy Code on fast dirt there with someone else's money, let alone as the last leg of a pick-3, let alone at the odds he was at.

Buzzle Ways was a steal on the win side of things.

I'm not sure why they took that 9th off of the turf, because the weather was great -- but the 5th race didn't look very comfortable. They weren't good horses, but did it seem to you like they were running a little funny over the green? Maybe I made that up after the fact, but it seemed the horses were not getting a hold of the grass very well and all of them look very uncomfortable and unsure on it.