Canterbury Park Race 7 July 19th 20 horse field

[JohnGalt1]

Originally Posted by rgustafson

Doug, read on the Canterbury blog that the turf race was one mile and 90 yards, so actually 20 yds. shorter than 1 1/16 miles.

Also stated that if it is held next year. The turf race would be at 1mile 70.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by JohnGalt1

Also stated that if it is held next year. The turf race would be at 1mile 70.

I think Canterbury Park should talk to a speed figure maker, if they want to ever pull a race like this off. They should reach out to CJ and talk to him.

Surfaces change speed from day to day.

Tweaking the distance won't solve it, unless the two surfaces play to the same variant as they did yesterday.

Also, the turf horses were a more classy group of horses than the dirt horses, yesterday.

The Turf horses were open $7,500 claimers. The dirt horses were $5,000 claimers, which haven't won two races in the last six months.

The fact that the turf horses had better form -- is probably a reason why people foolishly considered them.

[Calzone Lord]

Here's the video replay of the race -- the gates appeared to open first in the turf race -- but even with that advantage, the dirt horses still owned the race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuJHqR8QLP4


The horse who finished 6th out of 8 in the dirt ... beat every single one of the 12 turf horses.

[tector]

I thought the turf horses were virtually dead money, so it was a great bet from that perspective. But of course I didn't bet the dirt horse that won.....