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General Harness Racing Discussion / Scioto Downs
« on: June 16, 2015, 12:30:31 PM »
What is the deal with Scioto writing no trots.  Last week there were only 8 out of the 72 races, 11%, that went postward.  To put this in perspective below is a list of other big tracks percentage of trots for the same week.

Harrah's - 27% (15/26)
Hoosier - 30% (21/69)
Pocono- 42% (24/56)
Northfield - 35% (21/60)
Meadows - 54% (25/54)

I also don't understand why they have not done any Ohio Sired mini series.  Hoosier is always doing Indiana sired mini series.  In Pennysylvania everything is PA preferred.  Ohio seems to prefer to let all the money leave the state.

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General Harness Racing Discussion / Re: Richard Young Blisters Jug, Vows to Never Come Back
« on: September 27, 2013, 04:11:55 PM »
 'If you stop people on the street and asked them what is The Little Brown Jug those that had any answer would say it has something to do with football.'

You could say this about the Meadowland's Pace, the Kentucky Futurity, Yonkers Trot, North American Cup, and probably the Hambo.  The attendance for the Jug this year was 47k, The Meadowlands Pace draws what 15k and the Hambo 25k?

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General Harness Racing Discussion / Re: A ? for My Ohio Peeps
« on: June 12, 2013, 05:37:03 PM »
I saw they stopped writing the open trot after Burke's horse set the track record by 25 seconds.  He hasn't had any horses back in sense, other than sire stakes.  He gone?

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General Harness Racing Discussion / Re: Artiscape Pace Tioga Sunday
« on: June 09, 2013, 06:38:42 PM »
Pretty typical Tetrick if you ask me, point and go.   Those fractions were murder.

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General Harness Racing Discussion / Ontario Sire Stake Gold
« on: May 27, 2013, 05:19:09 PM »
First round of the always competitive, but now revamped, OSS Gold begins tomorrow with the added wrinkle of going on the half.  Top 3 performers from last year haven't come back yet but the OSS Gold always has a deep group of talented horses.  First division looks to be the toughest.  Muscle Mass looks to be coming on as a sire with half the starters being his progeny including all three favorites (Third Pat - Greeno, Muscle Gem - Moiseyev, Northern Bullet - Filion).

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General Harness Racing Discussion / Re: Tracy Brainard Busted
« on: May 19, 2013, 07:27:35 AM »
From the London Times

“Most exercise scientists investigating the trend for ‘soda-doping’ among athletes and gym-goers have shown that it offers significant benefits for endurance and speed,” Bee said. “At Loughborough University, for instance, physiologists reporting in the June issue of the International Journal of Sports Medicine showed that swimmers who took baking soda about one hour before a 200 meter event were able to shave a significant time off their usual performances.”

Further along in the article, Bee wrote: “Current research suggests that it is particularly helpful in speed-based events, including sprints, football and other fast-moving games, and middle-distance (up to 10 kilometers) running, swimming and cycling.”

Dr. Jonathan Folland, who led the study, said swimmers who took sodium bicarbonate knocked 1.5 seconds off their time for 200 meters, a difference that may seem insignificant to recreational swimmers but which is substantial at the elite level. “The increments of improvement are relatively small to the average person, although significant to someone who competes,” Folland said in the article. “I certainly wouldn’t advocate using it if you do aerobics a few times a week.”

The fact is in horse racing, especially at the elite level, endurance is everything.  If you want to administer sodium bicarbonate after the race to help the horse recover more quickly I don't see a problem with that.  To do so before the race is an attempt to gain a competitive advantage illegally.  It is in the rules, abide by them or pay the piper.  Saying she didn't know about it is a convenient excuse similar to all the baseball players whose memories become foggy after a positive.

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