How is a horse allowed to race sunday back tuesday

[Papillon]

in 1975 Bonefish won the Hambletonian --winning the 4th heat
 in 1976 Steve Lobell did the same--and collapsed after the race

they changed rules after those back to back 4 heaters

[Bitter Truth]

Now they can't even go two heats. I'm on record here that the Ky. Futurity should change its name.
Clearly not the same race so why even call it the same. Insult to past gritty winners.

[JT]

That's a wild idea! If that ever happens, I'm sure I won't be around to see it. Another thing they used to do when there were 3 eliminations and the top 3 finishers each advanced to the next heat. One of the 3rd place finishers ended up with the 9 hole in the 2nd tier, which was so unfair to the horses who finished 1st or 2nd in their elimination except for the horse who drew the rail.

That would still happen if they ever had enough entries for 3 eliminations

[gh2009]

I'm not positive but think when they did away with having to win 2 heats, they only allowed 8 horses in the finals. If they had 3 elims, the top 2 finishers from each would advance along with the 2 fastest 3rd place finishers.

[Jctoronto]

STRICTLY GAMBLING POV

Because of these quick turnarounds,
in ALL of these cases, next night, two nights later and to lesser extent same day heats, In all these cases, program will NOT have the past performance, the hidden line..no time to post it in a program or prob on line. LINE TO BE ANNOUNCED if you're lucky

I don't have to tell you veterans to
pay close attention, cause MANY times the horse in question comes back for more And you can't see it unless you catch Missing Chart Line off tv monitor in person or on your computer or phone

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p.s. old bugaboo... When will joints like Northfield start going extra mile for fans and program info, and differentiate fathers and sons and brothers, etc on past performance lines.
Is it so hard to indicate Lo Ebersole when Logan drives..who the hell knows which L Ebersole was in bike last.
Or Br Rhoads or which T Tetrick or Tr Tetrick or To Tetrick other places. Or heavens knows, which Smith drove last six weeks in Ohio. Ty Smith or Tr Smith, for starters.
If you're lucky, you'll get a line properly designating this key info.

Simple stuff from a real simple guy. lol ty

[MCR]

Do you feel the same about Ohio?

 I'm guessing the horses weren't much, if you debated sending them to Maine.

 Kind of a strange reason to call Maine a "pathetic State" over that.
Unless you have other reasons not listed or unknown.

Other reasons and no they weren't much which is why why they ended up pulling buggys

[PIGLAND]

back in the day the little brown jub horses raced 2 times in 2 hours

[Sunmoon 1219]

Back in the day all the big races went 2 heats I remember wild wood Jeb for Larry Rolla winning 2 heats of the cane pace at Yonkers .