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Old 10-25-2008, 05:30 PM
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Default Midnight Lute, phfew!
Holy crap. I always liked this big, beautiful horse but are they gonna mention, ya know, the new stakes record? 1:07:08. That's more than 3/5 faster than Kona Gold. I guess the whole synthetic thing adds a new factor to it but this horse is just brilliant and breaks track records in workouts. Shame he couldn't deal with the breathing issues to run in the Classic. I know they'd looked at it after last year's Sprint win. I'm glad Real Quiet's got one like this. Is he gonna retire now or do they have anything else in mind?
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Old 10-25-2008, 07:32 PM
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Old 10-25-2008, 09:01 PM
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Midnight Lute ran great and it was a tremendous training job to have him ready after all his issues but counting these times as stakes records is crazy.
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Old 10-25-2008, 09:07 PM
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Midnight Lute ran great and it was a tremendous training job to have him ready after all his issues but counting these times as stakes records is crazy.
Why is it crazy?
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Old 10-25-2008, 09:09 PM
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Why is it crazy?
The track was freaking conveyor belt?
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Old 10-25-2008, 09:18 PM
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The track was freaking conveyor belt?
A "converyor belt" condition on a race track is when there is a speed favoring bias. That was not the case today....

Your analogy makes no sense.
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Old 10-25-2008, 09:21 PM
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A "converyor belt" condition on a race track is when there is a speed favoring bias. That was not the case today....

Your analogy makes no sense.
The conveyor belt just happened to be in the 5 path
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Old 10-25-2008, 09:11 PM
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Why is it crazy?
Because the track is obviously about 3 seconds faster than a normal track and it is totally different surface.
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Old 10-25-2008, 09:18 PM
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Because the track is obviously about 3 seconds faster than a normal track and it is totally different surface.
Are you sure it was 3 seconds faster? What is a normal track nowadays anyway??
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Old 10-25-2008, 09:23 PM
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Are you sure it was 3 seconds faster? What is a normal track nowadays anyway??
Not the one they ran over today or yesterday
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