Re: BC Rail (425 Views)
Posted by:
Silver Charm (IP Logged)
Date: April 20, 2007 09:19AM
>Supposedly they did some work on the track prior to the Classic where Bernardini and Invasor both raced outside.
This is my opinion on what I saw. There were several notable experts who did not see any bias and several who did. This is just my opinion.
The racings prior to the BC at CD (Thurs & Fri) had an extreme anti-rail bias. Jockey's were steering horses to the outside of the track down the stretch and finishing each race in about the 5 or 6 path. Very similar to what we are seeing at Keeneland now. What they did on the backstretch I can not say because I did not have a head-on view.
So what happened. I figure Track Maintanance tried to even things out. They either made the rail better or the outside worse. Whichever way it was they overcooked the focus of their maintenance. Jockey's who had been watching and thinking on Fri before BC they would not go anywhere near the rail saw an opportunity to now try and take the shortest distance between two points and race on a more favorable part of the track.
If Track Maintenance thinks they made the outside worse much worse, trying to even it out mid-day may make sense.
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