Worst Trip in the History of Horse Racing !!!

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by hrfan

Deleware Race # 7 Earlier today

# 1 Great Kate Above

the chart does this horse NO JUSTICE, i hope some of the pro's like BTW and fatman, look at the race and tell me what they think. I had a win/place bet on him...

Nuff said. No horse can overcome that kind of trouble.

[Fearless Leader]

If you think that was bad, watch Ellerubiniere (4th place finisher) in the 5th race as well. BRUTAL!!!

[CSC]

I thought this was an informal poll for worst trip in horseracing history...

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by CSC

I thought this was an informal poll for worst trip in horseracing history...

I thought it was another Scav thread.

Worst trip in horseracing history.....ER-O'Hare-Keeneland-O'Hare-Hospital-Surgery.

[CSC]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

I thought it was another Scav thread.

Worst trip in horseracing history.....ER-O'Hare-Keeneland-O'Hare-Hospital-Surgery.

Or Johannesburg straight off the plane and straight to the track for the Derby or almost just as bad. He shipped in the day before...

Yours is more funny...best I can offer today.

[the_fat_man]

I'd be interested in CJ's take on the race. Specifically, if he thought the 1 had the worst of it in terms of 'pace'.

The chart for the race is wrong: going 8.5F the points of call are supposed to match the fractional points; the 1 was even with the 10 after 6F and was 3rd, 2 lengths behind at the 8F call. It looks real good on the chart having her pass 3 horses the last sixteenth but she really only passed ONE horse the last sixteenth and passed the others between the 6F and 8F calls.

Combine shitty data with poor race watching skills (or no race watching and reliance on data and ratings derived from it) and we get a sense of why the game is beyond challenging.

[blackthroatedwind]

Great Kate Above had lengths the best trip save being shuffled 1 1/2 to 2 lengths on the turn. With a 100% perfect trip she would have won but all things considered she ran about where she probably should have.

I understand it might have been frustrating to bet the horse, though you know how I feel about jockeys who insist on jamming their horses inside on the turf, but after the race is over you have to look at the trip in its entirety. Great Kate Above had some trouble.....but a lot more things went right for her.

[3kings]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

I thought it was another Scav thread.

Worst trip in horseracing history.....ER-O'Hare-Keeneland-O'Hare-Hospital-Surgery.

That's funny, and now that we know he is getting better, it's really funny.