Racing Fatalities At Turfway Park Up 50%

joeydb · #1 01-07-2009, 07:50 AM

Story here:
http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story...KrKTqMHhQ.cspx

Does not say what the totals are. Is it 3 fatalities versus 2 for last year, which would be a 50% increase? or 30 vs. 20?

Obviously statistics do very from year to year or meet to meet. I'm just curious to see if our sport's detractors will try to leverage an angle like "Even though this is a synthetic track, the sport is still dangerous..."

Habersham000 · #2 01-07-2009, 08:31 AM

All the numbers are in this article....

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/nat...Park-meet.aspx

Looks like a lot of front leg injuries...

Habersham000 · #3 01-07-2009, 08:36 AM

I actually was flying from Cincinnati to Lexington on Saturday and flew over Turfway and there was a race going on and saw a horse pull up badly....checked the equibase chart when I got home and saw the horse was vanned off...hope its alright

paisjpq · #4 01-07-2009, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Habersham000

I actually was flying from Cincinnati to Lexington on Saturday and flew over Turfway and there was a race going on and saw a horse pull up badly....checked the equibase chart when I got home and saw the horse was vanned off...hope its alright

you actually FLEW from cinci to lex? it's like 80 miles....

GBBob · #5 01-07-2009, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by paisjpq

you actually FLEW from cinci to lex? it's like 80 miles....

lol...I was just typing that

paisjpq · #6 01-07-2009, 08:43 AM

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lol...I was just typing that

I think it takes longer to get in and out of the airports than it would take to drive it

Habersham000 · #7 01-07-2009, 08:49 AM

It was a connection...half the flights out of Lex airport are to and from Cincinnati...delta's major hub is there so if you are flying anywhere with them your going to be going to Cincinnati or Atlanta first.

philcski · #8 01-07-2009, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by paisjpq

I think it takes longer to get in and out of the airports than it would take to drive it

it does... delta is c8ck and balls about it tho, sometimes flights are cheaper to lex than cincy despite actually going THROUGH cvg, but they won't let you buy the lex flight then skip that leg and board in cvg.

it takes 1 hour and 5 minutes to drive from lex to cvg (less if i'm driving), and about 2 hours if you take a flight.

hoovesupsideyourhead · #9 01-07-2009, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Habersham000

It was a connection...half the flights out of Lex airport are to and from Cincinnati...delta's major hub is there so if you are flying anywhere with them your going to be going to Cincinnati or Atlanta first.

delta sucks ..soooooooooooooooooo bad..

Bigsmc · #10 01-07-2009, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by philcski

it does... delta is c8ck and balls about it tho, sometimes flights are cheaper to lex than cincy despite actually going THROUGH cvg, but they won't let you buy the lex flight then skip that leg and board in cvg.

it takes 1 hour and 5 minutes to drive from lex to cvg (less if i'm driving), and about 2 hours if you take a flight.

It's the same flying through Charlotte on USAir. Cheaper to keep going than to stay in Charlotte.

Riot · #11 01-07-2009, 02:50 PM

Delta is the only airline I feel safe enough to fly a dog in cargo on. I used to be able to hop a commuter in Lex and be in Chicago by 11am, and home by 7pm, but no more. Flying is not as fun as it was in the 1970-1980's, that's for sure!

I support synthetic tracks because there is enough research out there, in the various products previous uses results overseas and the physical science they are based upon, for me, to show they are an improvement over most dirt tracks.

I certainly don't consider myself a, "sports detractor" for wanting tracks to be safer and better for the horses, via incorporation of the results of biological research, biomechanics research and physics into construction, materials, etc.

Nobody pulled the construction of these tracks out of the blue sky - they are constructed as they are for a reason, and I've never seen anyone in the racing industry (or even the manufacturers, for that matter) really try to point out the valid science they are based upon.

Well, Steve tried to once, when he had Professor M. Peterson on his show

(any physics geeks that want a copy of "Report on the System Development for In-Situ Characterization of Horse Racing Track Surfaces, Submitted to: Dr. C. Wayne McIlwraith, BVSc, Ph.D., FRCVS , Director of Orthopaedic Research, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 80523 By: M. L. Peterson, Ph.D. Stillwater River Technologies, 61 Bennoch Rd., Orono, ME 04473" e-mail me privately)