Lots of Choices
It's Sunday Morning again. The coffee has brewed and there is a donut or two with my name on it.
A church service at the local UU and a little after noon there is nothing scheduled, and Monday is Memorial Day, again nothing is scheduled.
Yesterday, I tried to watch some races from Delta Downs. No Preakness at Vinton, Louisiana, but Brady's March Madness broke his maiden, and won about $135,000 in the Louisiana Laddie Futurity, and set a track record to boot. I can only imagine how his owners feel this morning.
If you make it to the finals of a futurity race everybody gets paid and hopefully nobody gets hurt.
On Friday, at Ruidoso Downs there were twenty five trial races and the ten fastest finishers will be running in the Ruidoso Futurity on June 9, 2013. The total purse will be $750,000. The winner $315,000 and 10th place will pay almost $17,000.
Most of the money from the race will come from owners that nominated their horses and made periodic payments to keep their horses eligible for the trials. The road to big time stakes races for quarter horses is one big crap shoot.
I'm not sure it is the most fair system for determining the fastest horse for a big race because there are lots of random things that can happen which can screw up a race and keep a really good horse from making it to the finals. Maybe the wind shifts direction, maybe it starts raining, maybe the lunatic horse on either side of yours goes loco, or possibly your horse's legs are not exactly in order when the gate opens.
When the race is only about 17.255-17.477 seconds for the qualifiers there isn't much room for error and a little racing luck can't hurt.
One Quick Eagle had it all together on Friday, I wonder how it will go on June 9th, 2013. The race will go mostly unnoticed compared to the Belmont on Saturday, but I'll be watching for sure.
A church service at the local UU and a little after noon there is nothing scheduled, and Monday is Memorial Day, again nothing is scheduled.
Yesterday, I tried to watch some races from Delta Downs. No Preakness at Vinton, Louisiana, but Brady's March Madness broke his maiden, and won about $135,000 in the Louisiana Laddie Futurity, and set a track record to boot. I can only imagine how his owners feel this morning.
If you make it to the finals of a futurity race everybody gets paid and hopefully nobody gets hurt.
On Friday, at Ruidoso Downs there were twenty five trial races and the ten fastest finishers will be running in the Ruidoso Futurity on June 9, 2013. The total purse will be $750,000. The winner $315,000 and 10th place will pay almost $17,000.
Most of the money from the race will come from owners that nominated their horses and made periodic payments to keep their horses eligible for the trials. The road to big time stakes races for quarter horses is one big crap shoot.
I'm not sure it is the most fair system for determining the fastest horse for a big race because there are lots of random things that can happen which can screw up a race and keep a really good horse from making it to the finals. Maybe the wind shifts direction, maybe it starts raining, maybe the lunatic horse on either side of yours goes loco, or possibly your horse's legs are not exactly in order when the gate opens.
When the race is only about 17.255-17.477 seconds for the qualifiers there isn't much room for error and a little racing luck can't hurt.
One Quick Eagle had it all together on Friday, I wonder how it will go on June 9th, 2013. The race will go mostly unnoticed compared to the Belmont on Saturday, but I'll be watching for sure.
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