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![]() I'm used to seeing H for Handily noted for California racing but everywhere else they almost always are breezing works. Now Saratoga works are coming back with Handily.
Sorry to say I don't really know the difference. Seems like horses with Handily works don't do as well as horses that breeze. Handily times are almost always faster than breezing times but the explanations I have heard suggest that the horse is not being asked in Handily works. it has to be backwards. I think Handily works right before a race suck. The horse is a toss. |
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![]() I think you have it backwards. Handily works are when the horse is asked for more speed. There's nothing wrong with seeing a short handily workout a few days before a race. It usually means the trainer means business. . .
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![]() they only ask for speed at Saratoga and California tracks?
I may have it backwards on H works right before a race but I have been paying attention to work ou patterns for as long as I have been playing. |
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![]() I opened up an old DRF lying around and found some "H" works from Calder and Monmouth as well. . .
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![]() Quote:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...2/ai_n13871362 |
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![]() Quote:
Perhaps Cannon Shell will jump in here with his thoughts. |
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![]() I don't pay any attention to Calder or Monmouth. so you got me there.
Read the explanation the link provided. That's what I've heard before but Handily times are almost always faster. I liked reading the free clocker's reports on BrisNET. They told you what was happening. |
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![]() Breezing means he was being asked to do more. Hand means just what it says In Hand not being asked to do anything not within itself.
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![]() Handily vs In Hand.....not the same
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![]() is when a horse is working without being asked
Handily is when a horse is asked for more in a work, really urged. sorry but it seems a lot of you are misinformed |
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![]() i do believe breezing means with ease, handily with some urging....yeah, what iron said! you know breezing--it was a breeze meaning easy.
speaking of what things mean...anyone know where 'furlong' came from?? One eighth of a mile. Originally a "furrow long" or the length of a plowed field.
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![]() I stand corrected. www.gamingtoday.com/Glossary/horses.cfm/
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![]() Today at Saratoga the workouts show a mix of Breezing and Handily works, a few of each from the gate. Seems like useful info.
But at Delmar they all show Handily works, a couple from the gate. Is that to say every trainer wanted some urging from the rider? Doesn't seem likely. |
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![]() DRF form notes defines "handily" as "moderate speed, but more speed than 'breezing' ".
Against what they sound like they mean to my ears!
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![]() Racing trivia ...
What racing journalist first coined the use of the term breezing, by describing a certain famous horse running in his workout, "and the trees swayed" (as he was running past?) as he was so fast? Who was the writer, and who was the horse? ![]() Bonus points for the track where the workout took place!
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hatton belmont park
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![]() A winner in the History of the Turf contest!
![]() Well done!
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