dryrunguy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 29, 2021 9:46 pm
Just checked on the track conditions today at Churchill... It's officially rated as sloppy. I'd call it Sloppy on Steroids.
Though I go with this thinking anyway, now even more so - advantage veteran jockeys.
Advantage Essential Quality. Let's see how the track looks tomorrow. It should stop raining Friday morning, which should give the track some time to dry out. But it could still be a messy track late on Saturday.
dryrunguy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 30, 2021 3:41 am
Advantage Essential Quality. Let's see how the track looks tomorrow. It should stop raining Friday morning, which should give the track some time to dry out. But it could still be a messy track late on Saturday.
EDIT: Oops... I hadn't seen the most recent post.
I still think it's advantage Essential Quality, I so don't see Kentucky doing anything about this with their Derby cash cow. I think they'd have to void all the bets on that horse, so truly don't see that happening in a million years.
And I recognize the name so I think this might be the Sheikh that finances the tennis tournaments in Dubai. So, so creepy.
King Fury is out of the Derby. He had a high fever and elevated white blood cell count this afternoon. It won't be official until tomorrow, but trainer Kenny McPeek announced it on Twitter.
The jockey/ies went heavy with the whips towards the end but what an accomplishment for Medina Spirit leading all the way.
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“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein
In addition to the generous pay, it's a work environment where employee safety is paramount. As evidenced by the say 500 masks worn among the 52,000 people present even though there was supposedly a 100% mask requirement instituted for the event.
I will never understand places like Kentucky and West Virginia with straight up abject poverty voting for people that are adamant about keeping the minimum wage where it is. Those states ought to be single-issue voting states given the game changing aspect a raise in the minimum wage would make there.
People have decided that, if they are outdoors, they have nothing to worry about. You could see it as plain as day at Keeneland over the past month.
And a whole bunch of the jockeys who raced yesterday at Churchill were riding at Santa Anita today. Track-mandated quarantines have largely been abolished. Granted, most or all of the jockeys have already had some version of COVID already. But still... Given the uncertainty with the variants, it's a dangerous game on the roulette wheel...
dryrunguy wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 2:22 am
People have decided that, if they are outdoors, they have nothing to worry about. You could see it as plain as day at Keeneland over the past month.
And a whole bunch of the jockeys who raced yesterday at Churchill were riding at Santa Anita today. Track-mandated quarantines have largely been abolished. Granted, most or all of the jockeys have already had some version of COVID already. But still... Given the uncertainty with the variants, it's a dangerous game on the roulette wheel...
That is clearly the case in many places.
Kentucky Derby was touting their safety measures in staging the highest attendance event since in the pandemic began, and to have a 100% mask rule and it be crystal clear they couldn't even get 10% to wear them was something to see. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are quite a few vaccinated people in attendance, but you can't convince me at all that the grand majority were 2 weeks after their second dose.
Gonna hope and pray this doesn't turn into a super spreader event, in particular because this is heavily attended by out-of-staters.
If I understand it correctly, tracks typically have a 100% mask rule for attendees EXCEPT when they are eating or drinking (or smoking). So attendees are eating or drinking non-stop, which is generally how it works at tracks anyway.
What gets me is maskless people who are screaming or yelling. That is still a legitimate risk factor--indoors OR outdoors.
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