Slop and Notations (435 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: September 29, 2005 12:47PM
I was impressed with Jerry's post where he stated he left Perfect Dread out of the top three spots. That was extremely bold from my perspective, but he had weight and wide considerations factored and was right.
Handicapped that race for Dry track and when it went wet I wasn't prepared from a wet track handicapping perspective or to bet Super who prior to the rain and fat Espinoza was my key.
Checked Perfect Drifts lifetime slop starts with the TFigs. In the past he had been on improving trends when he ran on slop and the slop efforts were positive. Still, overall, he doesn't have a slop effort that is within 2 points of top and TGraph didn't score him unreasonably in regard to his slop history.
Still, visually, he was spinning his wheels a little and maybe the track impacted him. You can say the same for Super though.
Jerry on the Results Sheets you posted for the Hawthorne Gold Cup, what is that little notation next to the sloppy designation for the horse's efforts. Its slightly elevated and to the right.
Despite its proximity I don't bet Hawthorne often, did anyone think the inside might have carried a little better Saturday?
classhandicapper Wrote:
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> TGJB and MIFF,
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> I believe several figure makers made the Pacific
> Classic faster than TG. On those figures it
> probably looks more like Super Frolic paired (or
> close - you get the point) and Perfect Drift then
> ran slower in the Hawthrone. The figure that is
> probably in dispute is the Pacific Classic because
> the pace was lively and there were only 2 routes
> that day late in the card that could be used for
> making the variant.
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> Edited 1 times. Last edit at 09/29/05 09:13AM by
> classhandicapper.