Thanks for the great information. Found the following on the internet. Can someone tell me in plane english, for a racing dummy, just what this means!
Half a Biscuit : chased toward inside,faded turn,unsaddled 3/4 pole,walked off
http://www.monmouthpark.com/summary_res ... e=7/5/2004
Thanks again!
V.
half a Biscuit
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Chased inside... he came out of the gate, hurried to the rail and ran up the inside of the horses a bit..
Faded turn.. he slowed down in the turn and the field pretty much left him there.
Unsaddled 3/4 pole... at the 3/4 pole, three quarters of the way through the race, the jockey got off and took off his saddle.
Walked off.. he was walked off the track. This might have been accompanied by the letters "DNF" out to the right, for "did not finish" as in he may not have passed under the finish wire.
Faded turn.. he slowed down in the turn and the field pretty much left him there.
Unsaddled 3/4 pole... at the 3/4 pole, three quarters of the way through the race, the jockey got off and took off his saddle.
Walked off.. he was walked off the track. This might have been accompanied by the letters "DNF" out to the right, for "did not finish" as in he may not have passed under the finish wire.
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[quote="madelyn"]
Unsaddled 3/4 pole... at the 3/4 pole, three quarters of the way through the race, the jockey got off and took off his saddle.
Walked off.. he was walked off the track. This might have been accompanied by the letters "DNF" out to the right, for "did not finish" as in he may not have passed under the finish wire. [/quote]
In this case, this is wrong.
The horse finished the race and was then unsaddled "AT the 3/4 pole"... which remains in the same place at every track, usually near the beginning of the backstretch, regardless of the distance of a race or whether there is a race going on or not.
It means that he could not/did not return to the unsaddling area with all of the others before being unsaddled. The jockey took the tack off as the horse stood on the backstretch, for a particular reason related to the horse's health.
And the "3/4 pole" NEVER means three-quarters of the way through a race... except in those rare races that cover exactly 3 miles. They used to run such a thing in Nebraska a decade or two ago, but not anymore.
Hope this makes it more clear.
Unsaddled 3/4 pole... at the 3/4 pole, three quarters of the way through the race, the jockey got off and took off his saddle.
Walked off.. he was walked off the track. This might have been accompanied by the letters "DNF" out to the right, for "did not finish" as in he may not have passed under the finish wire. [/quote]
In this case, this is wrong.
The horse finished the race and was then unsaddled "AT the 3/4 pole"... which remains in the same place at every track, usually near the beginning of the backstretch, regardless of the distance of a race or whether there is a race going on or not.
It means that he could not/did not return to the unsaddling area with all of the others before being unsaddled. The jockey took the tack off as the horse stood on the backstretch, for a particular reason related to the horse's health.
And the "3/4 pole" NEVER means three-quarters of the way through a race... except in those rare races that cover exactly 3 miles. They used to run such a thing in Nebraska a decade or two ago, but not anymore.
Hope this makes it more clear.