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Biff Tannen
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Post by Biff Tannen »

Wondering if I could gather some thoughts about this.
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Brianna McKenzie
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Post by Brianna McKenzie »

NEVER.. Ever. Have I even considered post positions to matter one little bit.

I've played along time, if that matters any.
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The only time I can think of post positions having mattered is when it came to who broke next to Lucifer or Stop and Stare or other cannibalistic horses, and even then I don't know if it made a difference.
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Post by Steph Lonhro »

yeah not sure it matters too much, although some of my horses seem to do better along the rail then on outside, and others on the outside
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Post by Laura Ferguson »

Is there even a post position? I mean, entries are taken alphabetically, so if that correlates to post position, one would start favoring certain letters of the alphabet over others (A to get the rail, Z to get the outside) to take advantage of the better start position.
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Ara Davies wrote: The only time I can think of post positions having mattered is when it came to who broke next to Lucifer or Stop and Stare or other cannibalistic horses, and even then I don't know if it made a difference.
Post positions do not affect Chomp's wrath - it's whoevers in the way at the top of the stretch! ;)

Although I do think post positions are an interesting idea, maybe for the Derby and Breeders' Cup. We could have a drawing for positions! Might be a neat twist, and yet another outlet on which we can blame our stars' subpar performances.
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Post by The Steward »

Post positions mattered until Year 7, then they stopped mattering.

One day, they will matter again.
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Post by Biff Tannen »

these are great responses...reason I ask is my 2yr colt Moog recently stumbled out of the gates as did 2 other horses in a G3 @ Futurity. The horse that came in 2nd (Command) "broke outwards..." so I'm guessing that Moog was either directly to the right of him or 2-3 stalls away and because of post positioning, I could have had a better draw and maybe a different result. Maybe I'm over analyzing!! lol ....
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