Suffolk Downs First Race..
Oct 30, 2013 12:06:17 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 12:06:17 GMT -5
....good old time racing like I remember it in the '70s, when totally inexplicable results happened everywhere.
The first was a Mdn Clm 5000, bottom of the barrel. When I looked down the PPs (NO intention of betting the race), the first horse I threw out, wondering it it ever could win, was the 2 horse. 0 for 24 lifetime, only one second and one third. In her last nine races going back more than a year, betting odds were all double-digits, finished more than 20 lengths behind in six of those nine races, three of them more than 40 lengths!
But, the horse went off an an unbelievable 8-1, lowest odds on the page.
The race went off, the first two choices got off ahead of the field easily, the 2 horse languishing 7th by about 15 lengths. At the top of the stretch the 6-5 favorite was galloping off to a five-lenth lead, the 2 horse still sixth by more than 10 lengths. But then something happened! The throw-out suddenly figured out how to run, the favorite folded (ultimately finishing 3rd) and the 2 horse won out by about 4 lengths!
Ah, the good ol' days of "putting one over"!
The first was a Mdn Clm 5000, bottom of the barrel. When I looked down the PPs (NO intention of betting the race), the first horse I threw out, wondering it it ever could win, was the 2 horse. 0 for 24 lifetime, only one second and one third. In her last nine races going back more than a year, betting odds were all double-digits, finished more than 20 lengths behind in six of those nine races, three of them more than 40 lengths!
But, the horse went off an an unbelievable 8-1, lowest odds on the page.
The race went off, the first two choices got off ahead of the field easily, the 2 horse languishing 7th by about 15 lengths. At the top of the stretch the 6-5 favorite was galloping off to a five-lenth lead, the 2 horse still sixth by more than 10 lengths. But then something happened! The throw-out suddenly figured out how to run, the favorite folded (ultimately finishing 3rd) and the 2 horse won out by about 4 lengths!
Ah, the good ol' days of "putting one over"!
