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Yonkers Tuesday Race 2 ... Dash for the Cash .. They made it a true open with Covered Bridge, Leonidas, This Is The Plan and three others. Should be interesting at least.
They should be firing off the gate. Will there overdriving like the Jug?
It’s only 9/16 if a mile !! A better question is will overdriving lead to a major incident on the track?? This isn’t the sharpest driving colony in North America today!!
The shorter distance favors the honest horsemen, as gassed horses are stronger longer but doing it on a half mile track makes post position even more of a deciding factor. I would love to see half mile dashes at M1.
Gotta say not a big fan of the short dashes. It eliminates most of the strategy and can't be helpful in keeping a horse sound -- especially on a half. I think the mile and a quarter, or a mile and a half is a little more intriguing alternative, but I'm for the standard mile.
I think distance lames one up. I believe shorter races would keep horses around longer. I know when I first got in the business, the old timers would tell me when a horse gets tired at the end of a mile is usually when they hurt themselves. I have no proof either way but I do know the chemicals being used today don't make a horse go faster, it just makes a horse not tire as quickly. That is why you see horses pacing last quarters in 25 seconds and not gaining a length on the leader.
Been done. Never sticks novelty wears off fast. And each horse loses 3 starts to this one in their lifetime being torched.
