01 May 2008 10:13:26

Question About Track Configuration

This may seem like a dumb question, but here goes. A story in today=92s NYTimes stated that Gulfstream=92s track =91was lengthen to a mile and an eighth, which meant Gulfstream could no longer hold races at a mile and a sixteenth, and popular that has made the Florida route to the Kentucky Derby less attractive.=92 Question: Aren=92t most starting gates movable, so therefore if Gulfstream wanted to run a race at a mile and sixteenth it would simply have to move it up a few feet? Thanks.

01 May 2008 17:18:10

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Re: Question About Track Configuration

Not sure why but perhaps its because you'd either have a really short run into the turn and a really long stretch or a really long run into the first turn and a really short stretch. <chrise@iwon.com > wrote in message news:b6ebc295-87f0-415d-a54a-2fa7d4877ea1@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... This may seem like a dumb question, but here goes. A story in today’s NYTimes stated that Gulfstream’s track ‘was lengthen to a mile and an eighth, which meant Gulfstream could no longer hold races at a mile and a sixteenth, and popular that has made the Florida route to the Kentucky Derby less attractive.’ Question: Aren’t most starting gates movable, so therefore if Gulfstream wanted to run a race at a mile and sixteenth it would simply have to move it up a few feet? Thanks.

01 May 2008 10:20:20

Re: Question About Track Configuration

chrise@iwon.com wrote: > This may seem like a dumb question, but here goes. > > A story in today’s NYTimes stated that Gulfstream’s track ‘was > lengthen to a mile and an eighth, which meant Gulfstream could no > longer hold races at a mile and a sixteenth, and popular that has made > the Florida route to the Kentucky Derby less attractive.’ > > Question: > Aren’t most starting gates movable, so therefore if Gulfstream wanted > to run a race at a mile and sixteenth it would simply have to move it > up a few feet? > > Thanks. Of course the gates are moved which is why races can do an entire trip or more around the track but in the case of GP a 1 1/16 race would start on the turn.