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Title: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: LUCPARK on March 06, 2020, 09:53:18 PM: Sitting

First over

Sitting third

Second over

Third over.

Or
Stuck sixth along the rail
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: Rabbi Of Racing on March 06, 2020, 09:56:02 PM: third
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: LUCPARK on March 06, 2020, 09:57:49 PM: Quote from: Rabbi Of Racing on March 06, 2020, 09:56:02 PM
third

That’s the correct answer

Most drivers if u ask them
Say sitting third is absolute worst

99 point 9 percent. Won’t get out
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: LUCPARK on March 06, 2020, 10:25:22 PM: Quote from: help on March 06, 2020, 09:59:15 PM
Not even at Hoosier?

SITTING THIRD AT HOOSIER SUCKS..
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: FirstUpFrom8Hole on March 06, 2020, 10:34:50 PM: Parked the first half in 52
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: Locked in with pace on March 07, 2020, 07:22:24 AM: Last at the 1/2 on any 5/8th or mile track. Front end speed bias is not helping the handles. Too much chalk.
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: AGUA CALIENTE on March 07, 2020, 07:42:53 AM: Yep sitting third, you've been there a lot with a ton of horse.
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: the master on March 07, 2020, 08:05:11 AM: The worst place to be is in the back of the pack! Give me third behinds the favs and I'll take it every time! Once you get away poorly you're at the mercy of the pace setters and all the idiots that clog up the outside with dead pieces! Nothing worse than being mathematically eliminated early on!
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: LUCPARK on March 07, 2020, 08:12:21 AM: Quote from: the master on March 07, 2020, 08:05:11 AM
The worst place to be is in the back of the pack! Give me third behinds the favs and I'll take it every time! Once you get away poorly you're at the mercy of the pace setters and all the idiots that clog up the outside with dead pieces! Nothing worse than being mathematically eliminated early on!

sitting third u are very limited as what u can do

usually blocked to the last 10 yards
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: drink more beer on March 07, 2020, 09:29:50 AM: I call sitting 3rd the dead hole!!!
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: coryd03 on March 07, 2020, 09:35:36 AM: Sitting 3rd at nfld unless you're 2 seconds on the field, ready to roll first up at the 1/8th pole lol
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: FirstUpFrom8Hole on March 07, 2020, 11:06:20 AM: On a break 30 lengths behind
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: Here they come on March 07, 2020, 02:32:04 PM: All depends on what size and what track. On 5/8 I’ll say the death seat is the 4th. On mile track, 3rd is bad spot. On 1/2 with passing lane, again 4th bad spot.
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: LUCPARK on March 07, 2020, 03:26:56 PM: Quote from: help on March 07, 2020, 03:25:41 PM
Third place, or third horse that's on the rail? Third place behind the leader and next to the first over horse isn't bad when the passing lane comes up.

been in that situation a 1000 times sitting third comin for home sucks
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: Rabbi Of Racing on March 07, 2020, 03:57:11 PM: third is horrible
Title: Re: After the gate opens. Worst position you can be.
Post by: Carnival People on March 07, 2020, 05:13:03 PM: Worst place to be is when you leave really really hard and end up in the same exact slot you would have been in if you simply floated out of the gate. It doesn't matter where you are. It's HOW you got there.