Good Purses bring good horses and trainers and times should be quick.... But this quick ?
Track records - hell world records are being broken left and right and one thing I look at it, sometimes not how fast the winner went but how fast was the 5th place horse going.... When that many horses are flying, what is the true distance of the track ? Does it matter ? Would Scioto actually fess up if it was short and then take a black eye as to the times going especially with the Breeders Crown coming in the fall ?
This past Friday
Class Winning time 5th place time
Nw 11k L4 Trot 151.2 152.1 pretty quick condition Trot
Claimer 12k for F&M 151.0 152.1 last week this claimer went in 50.3
NW 5500 F&M 150.2 152.2 This is considered near bottom condition
F&M Open 149.0 150.1 Solid Group
Open 3 150.2 151.1 Another fast bunch
NW 16k Trot 151.4 153.1 back half trotted 55.3 in hand
NW of 6 150.3 151.2 Back half in -- 54.2 -- front end speed
NW 8k L4 151.1 152.2 Burke winner back half in 54.2
Other races times were slowed by soft early fractions and then speeding home.
