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Do the Math!!

Postby JimP » Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:43 am

Hi Guys,

Math was never my long suit!! How long in furlongs is a 1 and 1/8 on the turf? :oops:

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Postby Mahubah » Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:46 am

Nine.
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Postby JimP » Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:48 am

Thanks Muhabah! :D
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Postby chiggins6 » Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:50 am

Good Question! My mare Here's Suds (OTTB) was supposed to have been a distance runner in FLA. I had access to a 4 furlong turf track (out hidden inthe woods with a little golf course in the middle of it) on the farm I bought her from which I used to work her on and after two laps she was just getting going. I had always imagined a furlong was a 1/16th of a mile, but that was my imagination! (I might have been told that 4 laps of this track was a mile, but I could be making that up, now).

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Postby chiggins6 » Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:51 am

Wow. You guys posted before I finished typing. Nofe Air. But glad to know.
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Postby chiggins6 » Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:54 am

So that means a furlong is an eight of a mile, and my little 4 furlong track was half a mile. I'm glad to know this. Now I can "feel" her ride.
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Postby chiggins6 » Fri Sep 24, 2004 5:33 am

And if she was just getting ready to put on some speed after two laps, then she was getting ready for the burst at the end of the mile to finish, just like she was trained to do. What a good little mare.

Well, not little. 17 hands, actually. She'd do that drop into a stretched out floating power thing just at the end to pull in front of my girlfriend's OTTB at the end.

We were nuts. We were kids. I can't believe we didn't kill oursleves, or our horses. But they loved it. And I have to say, we did condition them for it. I wouldn't go there with, ask that of, a retired horse like that today.
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Postby Colinsb » Fri Sep 24, 2004 5:56 am

1 mile = 8 furlongs
8 f = 10 chains
1 chain = 22 yards
1 mile = 1760 yards

ain't imperial measurement great :lol:
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Postby Ruffian » Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:07 am

Whats up with the 'weanling' and 'yearling' things? (I don't know what I am yet.
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Postby madelyn » Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:20 am

See Sam's post entitled "Bugger!" -- it has something to do with the number of times you have posted. I guess I'm an early-greying weanling! :o
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Postby Jessi P » Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:47 am

madelyn wrote:See Sam's post entitled "Bugger!" -- it has something to do with the number of times you have posted. I guess I'm an early-greying weanling! :o



I think that comes under "roaning patterns" Madelyn....... :D :D :D
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Postby Jessi P » Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:48 am

madelyn wrote:See Sam's post entitled "Bugger!" -- it has something to do with the number of times you have posted. I guess I'm an early-greying weanling! :o



I think that comes under "roaning patterns" Madelyn....... :D :D :D
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Postby BJ » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:21 pm

No fair posting double Jessi! Trying to make "non-winners of 1 race other than Maiden or Claiming" :wink: :?:
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Postby Sam » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:47 pm

And Cheryl is spamming to get through her conditions!! :D
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Postby madelyn » Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:50 pm

gosh, I'm thrilled to be a yearling.... no hurry to break maiden here, is there? Not like KY, just so many tries and you can't race anymore...
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