Humpday playaround

[JimmyEllis]

Originally Posted by pointman

The 3 was blocked the entire stretch with run, Rocco tried to go out, then had to go back in and had to wait behind horses to get the hole. The 3 should have won the race.

The 7 took a bad step and I was surprised she was not pulled up on the backstretch.

Exactly what was bad about the 6's trip?

Did you watch the headon? The 3 had room to go by and flat out hung. Moreover, she had an inside suckup trip pretty much the entire race. At least the 6 was breaking her own air.

The 7 blew the 1st turn so badly that she wasn't even in the headon backstretch shot initially.

[pointman]

Originally Posted by JimmyEllis

Did you watch the headon? The 3 had room to go by and flat out hung. Moreover, she had an inside suckup trip pretty much the entire race. At least the 6 was breaking her own air.

The 7 blew the 1st turn so badly that she wasn't even in the headon backstretch shot initially.

The 3 hung in the 70 yards she had to go through the hole before the wire?

The 6 got a relatively easy lead after the 7, her main pace rival, almost went down on the backstretch. What was so tough about that trip?

I agree the 3 had a ground saving trip but was blocked until it was too late. I think it is hard to argue that the 3 would not have won that race with a clean hole in the stretch.

[casp0555]

Race #8 08/28/2013
Saratoga
$3 Double
# 6
WT # 6
$3.00

[JimmyEllis]

Originally Posted by pointman

The 3 hung in the 70 yards she had to go through the hole before the wire?

The 6 got a relatively easy lead after the 7, her main pace rival, almost went down on the backstretch. What was so tough about that trip?

I agree the 3 had a ground saving trip but was blocked until it was too late. I think it is hard to argue that the 3 would not have won that race with a clean hole in the stretch.

I think the 3 got the best trip in the race, all in all. But we can agree to disagree.

In the meantime, I'm trying to write some Perl regular expressions. Just about the most frustrating thing there is to do.