Re: Hey Jerry (594 Views)
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fkach (IP Logged)
Date: April 15, 2007 04:09PM
>23.57 46.59 1.09.57 1.21.26<
23.57 and 46.59 is obviously crawling early when the horses run 109.57 etc... after that.
Based on a few of your posts, I believe you are confusing track speed with jockey strategy. The paces tend to be slow on Poly because the jockeys have figured out that if they run real racehorse time early they have no chance of winning.
You can't look at all the paces and say "well they were all slow so the track must have been playing slow early and fast late because of wind or the track being fast in some spots and slow in others".
While that is theoretically possible, that's not what's happening at KEE. It's obvious because it happens quite consistently at KEE and to a lesser degree on all the other Poly tracks too. The jockeys are riding like it's a European turf race because it's the best way to give their horse a chance of winning (especially going long).