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Old 10-24-2007, 09:43 AM
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Ok looks like rain on Friday and Sat. What is this gonna do to everyone's picks??? I hate betting on rainy days and I swear I may just skip the whole damn thing. Let me know what you all think about the rain and its effects on both days. Who will it help who will it hurt??
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Old 10-24-2007, 09:46 AM
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Ok looks like rain on Friday and Sat. What is this gonna do to everyone's picks??? I hate betting on rainy days and I swear I may just skip the whole damn thing. Let me know what you all think about the rain and its effects on both days. Who will it help who will it hurt??
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Old 10-24-2007, 10:09 AM
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Ok looks like rain on Friday and Sat. What is this gonna do to everyone's picks??? I hate betting on rainy days and I swear I may just skip the whole damn thing. Let me know what you all think about the rain and its effects on both days. Who will it help who will it hurt??
It could be at SA or Delmar...Ashes would probably blend right into the poly/cushion
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Old 10-24-2007, 12:23 PM
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Default BC is looking like a slop fest

Rain, Rain, and more Rain

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Old 10-24-2007, 01:00 PM
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Is anyone going to answer my questions.
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Old 10-24-2007, 01:02 PM
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Im serious guys just need some direction here. let me know
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Old 10-24-2007, 01:06 PM
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Mort..please help..
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Old 10-24-2007, 01:08 PM
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I say it helps the fast horses who run upfront
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Old 10-24-2007, 01:18 PM
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Ok looks like rain on Friday and Sat.

I hate posters who start a sentence with "ok."

It's not ok.



What is this gonna do to everyone's picks???


Most of them are all wet anyways.


I hate betting on rainy days and I swear I may just skip the whole damn thing.



Well now you're getting somewhere.

I'll bet you hate taking a hand sledge and driving spikes in your head,too.

But we would like to know your decision as soon as is humanly possible.




Let me know what you all think about the rain and its effects on both days.

Well....rain stimulates growth...I believe all would concur.So it's a good thing.I think it would stimulate growth on both days.



Who will it help who will it hurt??


Oh...dandy question.

If you were a wicked witch it would melt you....but if you're perenial rye you would like it.
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Old 10-24-2007, 01:19 PM
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I am ....at your service.
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Old 10-24-2007, 05:00 PM
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Old 10-24-2007, 01:26 PM
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Wow thanks Mortimer, those are some great answers. Appreciate it.
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Old 10-24-2007, 01:28 PM
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Wow thanks Mortimer, those are some great answers. Appreciate it.


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Old 10-24-2007, 01:55 PM
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Ok looks like rain on Friday and Sat. What is this gonna do to everyone's picks??? I hate betting on rainy days and I swear I may just skip the whole damn thing. Let me know what you all think about the rain and its effects on both days. Who will it help who will it hurt??
Relax. How often are weathermen wrong 48 or 72 hours out? IMO, weatherpeople tend to overpredict both rain and snow.
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Old 10-24-2007, 05:18 PM
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Relax. How often are weathermen wrong 48 or 72 hours out? IMO, weatherpeople tend to overpredict both rain and snow.
I'm really hoping for the same thing, but I'm being negative at the moment. It's been raining here for 6 days straight. A big front came through last Friday and Saturday, and looks to be the same one that will hit Jersey this weekend.

Boy I hope I'm dead wrong!!!
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Old 10-25-2007, 03:54 AM
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Although the chalk looks dominant in the juvenile F,I think a wet track would most help Irish Smoke.To me,Guilded Time horses like it,and Smoke Glackens as well.I'm no expert on the horse.I don't know the knock on her(distance question maybe,) but seems like has better chance getting 2 turns if it's wet.
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Old 10-24-2007, 02:00 PM
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Ok looks like rain on Friday and Sat. What is this gonna do to everyone's picks??? I hate betting on rainy days and I swear I may just skip the whole damn thing. Let me know what you all think about the rain and its effects on both days. Who will it help who will it hurt??
I think the reason you have not been getting a lot of straightforward responses to this question is the fact that it is somewhat diifficult to discuss how wet weather will affect 124 different horses competing in 11 different races in any sort of meaningful way in one thread.
My suggestion would be that it will affect the horses the same way it does on the other 364 days of the year, so whatever strategies you have used in the past for a wet course would probably be appropriate. Other than that, I would suggest looking at each individual race (and perhaps the threads devoted to those races) to see how an off-track or soft turf will affect each individual race, rather than the BC as a whole.
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After Market can kiss his chances goodbye if the weather unfolds like those know nothing weather men are predicting. two words. John Bolaris. four more words. Storm of the Century. (which in fact was a light dusting, thus cost him his job in Philly. Had to move to NY to get away from that debacle.)
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Old 10-24-2007, 02:07 PM
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All this talk of soft turf and a sloppy track..... is it really going to change that quickly? I can't see that happening.
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