Dummies Question - 3 Furlong Workouts

[Kasept]

Note too that quoted 3f works frequently are cut-out of a further work of 4f, 5f or even more. Trainers will tell clockers that their horse is working three furlongs but are in fact involved in a longer drill between certain poles.

[Round Pen]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Note too that quoted 3f works frequently are cut-out of a further work of 4f, 5f or even more. Trainers will tell clockers that their horse is working three furlongs but are in fact involved in a longer drill between certain poles.

And to add to that alot not all 3f works out of the gate are actually Just horses that have went a 1/8th of a mile or a 1/4 and that is the time the pull up 3/8's in. We do that quite abit getting horse's ok'd from the gate

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Note too that quoted 3f works frequently are cut-out of a further work of 4f, 5f or even more. Trainers will tell clockers that their horse is working three furlongs but are in fact involved in a longer drill between certain poles.

Trainers never lie...

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Trainers never lie...

That's true..

But those thievin' clockers, now that's a different story.

I like to look for 7f or 1m workouts, but I notice that these are quite rare except among the West Coast trainer "colony", a fact I've never quite understood.

[keithting]

I personally like to see a 7 Fur or 1 Mile work into a horse that will race at 6 Fur or 7 Fur

you used to see that alot in the "old days" - not so much anymore

these horses tend to be "fit"

[ateamstupid]

A lot of good information in this thread, but I will add that I'm generally partial to first-time starters/layoff horses who have a series of longer works punctuated by a quick 3-furlong blowout a few days before the race. I find it's often the sign of a more fully cranked runner.

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

if shipping in sometimes a 3f work on the new track or a gate w for 3f is a good thing..i like to see 2/4 102.b in a row on a firster..thats money..