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Old 04-17-2007, 08:48 AM
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While I think your pronouns were OK, lesson is not spelled "lessen".

Main Entry: 1les·son
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Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French leçon, from Late Latin lection-, lectio, from Latin, act of reading, from legere to read -- more at LEGEND
1 : a passage from sacred writings read in a service of worship
2 a : a piece of instruction b : a reading or exercise to be studied by a pupil c : a division of a course of instruction
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And I thank you.

Outstanding!
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:02 AM
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And I thank you.

Outstanding!
You're welcome!
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:03 AM
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just when you think things have reached bottom, we're now being lectured on grammar and spelling. I'm in big trouble if this trend takes off.
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just when you think things have reached bottom, we're now being lectured on grammar and spelling. I'm in big trouble if this trend takes off.

I think the spelling was tongue-in-cheek.
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:04 AM
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I thought this was the educational thread.
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:05 AM
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I thought this was the educational thread.

VERY educational.
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:07 AM
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I think the spelling was tongue-in-cheek.
yes it was, shouldn't have lumped the two together.
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:18 AM
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Since we are in a educational mood. Can someone explain something about the top 3 year old beyer given to Flying First Class 107, in a 33K alw, and how anyone looked at this for his next start. By comparison, Teuflesberg posted a 100 Beyer number for winning the Southwest, and Hard Spun, who finished fourth, beaten three lengths at 50 cents to the dollar, received a 95, which, coincidentally, was the same number he posted when he won the LeComte by six-plus lengths a month back at Fair Grounds. Then the sudden fall off the earth effort by FFC in the Rebel.
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Since we are in a educational mood. Can someone explain something about the top 3 year old beyer given to Flying First Class 107, in a 33K alw, and how anyone looked at this for his next start. By comparison, Teuflesberg posted a 100 Beyer number for winning the Southwest, and Hard Spun, who finished fourth, beaten three lengths at 50 cents to the dollar, received a 95, which, coincidentally, was the same number he posted when he won the LeComte by six-plus lengths a month back at Fair Grounds. Then the sudden fall off the earth effort by FFC in the Rebel.
FFC is a sprinter. The 107 was earned sprinting. He might be a very good one if they stop trying to ruin him.
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:23 AM
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Since we are in a educational mood. Can someone explain something about the top 3 year old beyer given to Flying First Class 107, in a 33K alw, and how anyone looked at this for his next start. By comparison, Teuflesberg posted a 100 Beyer number for winning the Southwest, and Hard Spun, who finished fourth, beaten three lengths at 50 cents to the dollar, received a 95, which, coincidentally, was the same number he posted when he won the LeComte by six-plus lengths a month back at Fair Grounds. Then the sudden fall off the earth effort by FFC in the Rebel.


I just got my first true inkling of what it must feel like for A Rod when some amateurish pitcher throws him a big fat fastball right over the center of the plate.
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:25 AM
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FFC is a sprinter. The 107 was earned sprinting. He might be a very good one if they stop trying to ruin him.

I kinda figured that part out, but how does someone take that big effort, and make sence out of it next time.
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:28 AM
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I just got my first true inkling of what it must feel like for A Rod when some amateurish pitcher throws him a big fat fastball right over the center of the plate.
Thanks, that helps make sence of it all. Any other words of wisdom?
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:29 AM
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I kinda figured that part out, but how does someone take that big effort, and make sence out of it next time.
Well, if they stop looking for roses now, you can bet him next time at 7f or less. That is all I would make of that.
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I kinda figured that part out, but how does someone take that big effort, and make sence out of it next time.

I think this is your department.
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:38 AM
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I think this is your department.
OK, by request.

It is sense not "sence"

Main Entry: sense
Pronunciation: 'sen(t)s
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Thanks, that helps make sence of it all. Any other words of wisdom?
Yes---the track at Oaklawn Park that day was extremely inside-speed biased.

Flying First Class, who's bred to sprint, made a comfortable lead, and dismantled a field by many lengths. I believe the soundly beaten 2nd place finisher won back. His final time was almost two full seconds faster than alw horses later on in the card.

Basically, a combonation of taking advantage of a track bias, and running a giant race, equalled a very fast time over a racetrack that was yielding slow times all day long. Also, Flying First Class is a Wayne Lukas trained horse, and his horses have been notoriously inconsistant over the last several years...and often run a big race and fall off form.

If you look at High Heels, she was routed by a Lukas filly in her prep for the Fantasy...in the Fantasy, she won by a large margin over Cotton Blossom and Cash Included...the same Lukas filly who destroyed her in her previous start ran dismally on that day.

Hard Spun, who raced on the same card, was wide on both turns, and taken off the pace for the first time....thus meaning he ran against the track...as opposed to FFC...who ran with it.
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:41 AM
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Well, if they stop looking for roses now, you can bet him next time at 7f or less. That is all I would make of that.
It would be interesting to know someone who actually handicapped the race, using this beyer number in determining their bet. Allot of people bet the horse, why? did these beyer numbers have influence on them??
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:43 AM
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Yes---the track at Oaklawn Park that day was extremely inside-speed biased.

Flying First Class, who's bred to sprint, made a comfortable lead, and dismantled a field by many lengths. I believe the soundly beaten 2nd place finisher won back. His final time was almost two full seconds faster than alw horses later on in the card.

Basically, a combonation of taking advantage of a track bias, and running a giant race, equalled a very fast time over a racetrack that was yielding slow times all day long. Also, Flying First Class is a Wayne Lukas trained horse, and his horses have been notoriously inconsistant over the last several years...and often run a big race and fall off form.

If you look at High Heels, she was routed by a Lukas filly in her prep for the Fantasy...in the Fantasy, she won by a large margin over Cotton Blossom and Cash Included...the same Lukas filly who destroyed her in her previous start ran dismally on that day.

Hard Spun, who raced on the same card, was wide on both turns, and taken off the pace for the first time....thus meaning he ran against the track...as opposed to FFC...who ran with it.
This information could have been very useful before adding Times Mistress to my Fantasy Stable.
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Old 04-17-2007, 09:44 AM
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It would be interesting to know someone who actually handicapped the race, using this beyer number in determining their bet. Allot of people bet the horse, why? did these beyer numbers have influence on them??
Sure, some people only know how to read the numbers that are bolded in the Form. Seems like a waste of paper to me. They should offer just the BSFs in a little pamphlet for those folks.
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It would be interesting to know someone who actually handicapped the race, using this beyer number in determining their bet. Allot of people bet the horse, why? did these beyer numbers have influence on them??
I don't think it was just the number people were betting on...
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