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Flag start over 5f, one tailed off immediately! Anyone who backed that will be rightly pissed off.
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What was the reason for a flag start
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They should have the tapes like they used to have
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That chappie from Laddies knows what ees doing.
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salmon -
1950 Lincoln Handicap 40 Runners perfectly IN LINE - and stand STILL - at the TAPE - for the Start. 23 Seconds into Video... http://www.britishpathe.com/video/lincoln-opens-flat/query/lincoln+handicap |
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I don't remember that one onlooker but I do remember tape starts. Just. Given that in a few handicaps they had to deal with HUGE fields I don't remember them being noticeably less equal than they are from starting gates.
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Sprinters. Flag start. Apprentice jockeys. What could possibly go wrong?
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2nd fav wexford refused
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Neither do I - salmon - Blimey
 1948 was the record field - 58 Runners 1966 there were 49 Runners - so they, apparently, started in TWO lines Whether that was 1 to 25 in the front line and 26 to 49 in the back line - or - say - Odd numbers in front - Even numbers second line - I do not know ( but could check the Form Book, later) Phil Bull's well-backed Karelia had to start from the second row. Finished close up - he was, apparently and understandably, not happy. |
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i'm pretty sure that starting stalls weren't used when Charlottetown won the Derby,but think they were the following year when one of my favourite horses Royal Palace won.
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Onlooker/Salmon - A complication we do not have to consider today. I recall my Uncle Jack saying "Not that one boy, the horse needs a jockey who's good at the start". Never did get a list or even recall one who was good or one who wasn't. He liked Smirke, but then who didn't except those upstairs.
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