Re: Last Saturday (422 Views)
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Delmar Deb (IP Logged)
Date: March 09, 2005 01:47PM
One of the problems at SA this year is that the track they start the races with (usually fast and sealed for the workouts) changes dramatically when they send the tractors out to dig it up midway through the day.
One of the clockers told me that Steve Wood will open up the track after a couple of hours of sunshine thinking that the inside will have dried out...but that's not been the case ever since all that water got into the base.
It used to be hard enough to figure out the track on a daily basis...now it's almost hourly.
At Gulfstream, they supposedly sent out the water trucks repeatedly during the hour before the Fountain of Youth with enough water to alter the surface from earlier races...I don't envy your job in figuring out these races!
By the way Jerry, that same clocker has been adding 10 points to Beyer's figures at SA this meet (based on his own figs), but said Beyer came out OK for Saturday (the clocker had DM at 95) - so maybe Andy corrected his SA database?
Delmar Deb
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