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Post by 1hooper on Sept 16, 2024 16:39:36 GMT -5
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Post by 1hooper on Sept 20, 2024 21:04:34 GMT -5
If the Cotillion was 9F I'd play Anna to bounce off that Travers effort 4 weeks ago.
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Post by 5wide on Sept 21, 2024 12:00:01 GMT -5
hunch bet race 4
#3 Dr Lou. WIN
Not 5 mins ago, I just had a call from one of my customers. His name is Dr. Lou.
I go back to looking at the form and I see Dr. Lou in race 5
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Post by eye123 on Sept 21, 2024 12:10:35 GMT -5
hunch bet
Speechless CD 5th race
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Post by tenfurlongs on Sept 21, 2024 13:29:26 GMT -5
Trying a late pick-3 (ouch, not my style) in races 12-14. If I can beat Thorpedo Anna, I can get paid well. If I beat the other two favorites and she wins, get my money back+.
PRX R12
If Mike Smith wants the front at all costs on Mystic Lake, maybe it fouls up the race flow. Power Squeeze could pick up the pieces from the wreckage.
PRX R13
Dragoon Guard looks like one of those late-developing Juddmonte runners that become good 4yos. Unmatched Wisdom wants his money back for The Travers disaster with Irad up. Prat is back, sends him.
PRX R14
Twisted Ride loves the oval, was impressive in the Vanderbilt (GI) at the Spa at 35-1, maybe he can sit second on the Chow line and go by late.
PK3- 1,6,8/7,8/3,6
TW
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Post by 1hooper on Sept 21, 2024 13:55:54 GMT -5
And I thought the Churchill turf course was bad...
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Post by 1hooper on Sept 21, 2024 14:04:30 GMT -5
DRF on 9/6.
Parx racetrack outside Philadelphia plans to resume racing on its turf course later this month, with the goal of having the course race-ready by Sept. 21, when the track runs its richest race, the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby, and 10 other stakes races, according to the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority.
Since Parx closed its turf course last week in response to criticism from horsemen, HISA officials and track-surface experts have conducted tests on the track and met with officials with both the track and its horsemen’s group, according to a statement released Friday morning by HISA. The tests concluded that “there was a noticeable lack of moisture in the track” and that “divots” in the surface had been filled with “growing medium.”
The statement also said that the irrigation system at Parx had been “down for maintenance” at the time the course was inspected on Sept. 2-3. The irrigation system was operational by Sept. 4, according to the statement.
“Track management has committed to completing additional steps over the next two weeks, aiming to resume turf racing on Monday, September 16 through September 21,” the statement said.
Parx closed the turf course on Aug. 26 after a trainer posted a video on social media showing apparent holes in the surface. A horse suffered a fatal breakdown on the turf course during the Aug. 25 card. The track was barraged by criticism over the condition of the turf course, though the track later that week released a statement contending that the track had been safe for racing on the day of the breakdown.
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Post by 1hooper on Sept 21, 2024 14:15:50 GMT -5
No one could have seen this coming today....
2:15pm
Officials at Parx Racing abruptly moved the GIII Turf Monster Stakes–one of five graded events on the GI Pennsylvania Derby and GI Cotillion Stakes undercard–to the main track after Freedom Eagle (Hoppertunity) suffered an unspecified injury and was vanned off the track following the running of the Alphabet Soup Handicap, an 8 1/2-furlong grass race restricted to Pennsylvania-breds earlier on the program.
A statement from the track read: “Parx Racing management moved Saturday's Grade III Turf Monster Stakes from the turf course to the main track out of an abundance of caution. The $250,000 stakes, carded as the 10th race on the Pennsylvania Derby Day card with post time of 4:04 p.m., will be run at five furlongs on the main track.”
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Post by phlierfreak on Sept 21, 2024 16:22:02 GMT -5
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Post by UpInClass on Sept 21, 2024 16:33:44 GMT -5
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Post by 5wide on Sept 21, 2024 16:45:55 GMT -5
Going with Stronghold in the PA Derby. I think DG had everything his own way last out and Stronghold looks primed to turn the tables .
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Post by mysaladdays on Sept 21, 2024 17:53:01 GMT -5
That was quite some stand in the stirrups by Torres on Seize the Grey .... I dunno how jockeys can stand upright like that and maintain balance while horses are still running. People underestimate the fitness and athleticism that jockeys have in comparison to other sports figures.
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Post by 1hooper on Sept 21, 2024 18:20:58 GMT -5
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Post by turffan on Sept 21, 2024 18:29:59 GMT -5
Good thing that horses can see pretty well in the dark.
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Post by propro on Sept 21, 2024 21:33:45 GMT -5
And I thought the Churchill turf course was bad... Nothing worse that that Parx course...and that applies on opening day of their turf season, which usually starts sometime in June and should be done for the season by later in June when it's all chopped up. Every other track in the midatlantic can run turf in April. Not there. I think they need to tear it up, elevate it 3 or more feet and put in some state of the art drainage and irrigation. None of that will ever happen, so they'll keep racing on what they have. Crazy how they owned Atlantic City and closed it in 2015. That turf course was amazing up to the day it closed, even though they only raced there a few days in the spring each year for 10+ years. |
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Post by propro on Sept 21, 2024 21:34:29 GMT -5
Good thing that horses can see pretty well in the dark. That last race was like 25 minutes after sunset. Good thing the cameras have wide apertures. |
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Post by turffan on Sept 22, 2024 7:17:30 GMT -5
Good thing that horses can see pretty well in the dark. That last race was like 25 minutes after sunset. Good thing the cameras have wide apertures. My realization that horses can see well in the dark came from a fly fishing pack trip in Wyoming about 10 years ago. We packed in about 9 miles from the nearest dirt road. The teenage daughter of the outfitter got badly injured and one of the cowboys took her back to the trailhead. The outfitter said he would come back to camp after he dropped her off. It was pitch black with maybe a little light from the stars and a good part of the ride was a 60 degree scree slope with a narrow "trail" cut into it with a 400-500 foot drop below. I asked the outfitter how the guy could see to get back. He said "he can't, but the horse can." I didn't know that until then. |
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