PR Harness the record of the oval

Race Day

Saturday, May 24, 2003

9 races at Plainridge Racecourse, pace and trot, $23,100 in purses.

The Card

The official chart survives for 9 of the 9 races on this card. Every line carries the finishing position, the post position drawn, the winning time and the odds the board closed at as the judges recorded them.

The fastest mile of the afternoon was 2:01.0. Harness times are read as minutes, seconds and fifths rather than hundredths, so that trailing digit is a fifth of a second — the notation the sport kept long after other codes moved to decimals.

First Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $2,800 · 7 starters · Track GD · 3000CLHC

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
7/9Q 6 SQUASHULIKEABUG 2:01.0 9.50 Robert W Sumner Patricia N Sumner
29.029.430.130.1
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

29.0 · 58.4 (29.4) · 1:29.0 (30.1) · 1:59.1 (30.1)

Second Race

Trot · 1 Mile · Purse $2,500 · 9 starters · Track GD · 3000CL OP

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
9/23 6 WINTERS SWEETDREAM 2:06.0 121.30 Nicholas R Coblentz George D Coblentz III
29.130.130.431.1
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

29.1 · 59.2 (30.1) · 1:30.1 (30.4) · 2:01.2 (31.1)

Third Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $2,000 · 7 starters · Track GD · FMNW1PMLT

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
7/DIS X1 WINTERS LILTATTLER - 91.80 Nicholas R Coblentz George D Coblentz III
29.030.030.131.2
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

29.0 · 59.0 (30.0) · 1:29.1 (30.1) · 2:00.3 (31.2)

Fourth Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $2,200 · 9 starters · Track GD · NW1000

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
9/DIS 5 LORD TONY - *1.90 John Hogan John Hogan
27.128.230.131.1
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

27.1 · 55.3 (28.2) · 1:25.4 (30.1) · 1:57.0 (31.1)

Fifth Race

Trot · 1 Mile · Purse $2,000 · 7 starters · Track GD · NW2PMLT

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
7/DIS 1 WINTERS CALL GIRL - 11.20 Nicholas R Coblentz George D Coblentz III
28.230.031.132.0
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

28.2 · 58.2 (30.0) · 1:29.3 (31.1) · 2:01.3 (32.0)

Sixth Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $1,800 · 8 starters · Track GD · FMNW200PS

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
8/24T 7 PRECIOUS CATERA 2:05.4 30.40 Daniel T Sumner Andrei V Guidette
29.130.430.230.2
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

29.1 · 1:00.0 (30.4) · 1:30.2 (30.2) · 2:00.4 (30.2)

Seventh Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $3,000 · 7 starters · Track GD · 4000CL

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
7/17 6 TOLEDO RED 2:01.1 52.30 Peter A Sarnie Peter A Sarnie
28.329.429.030.2
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

28.3 · 58.2 (29.4) · 1:27.2 (29.0) · 1:57.4 (30.2)

Eighth Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $5,000 · 5 starters · Track GD · WO2500L6

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
SCR SCR HERO'S CAVALCADE -
27.428.029.329.0
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

27.4 · 55.4 (28.0) · 1:25.2 (29.3) · 1:54.2 (29.0)

Ninth Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $1,800 · 9 starters · Track GD · NW200PS

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
9BE/DIS 9 ONLY CHIVAS - 16.10 Scott R Nichols Mary B Beauregard
29.229.030.231.3
quarters · widest is slowest · 2nd qtr was quickest

29.2 · 58.2 (29.0) · 1:28.4 (30.2) · 2:00.2 (31.3)

Questions about this card

Was this a trotting or a pacing card?

Mixed — 7 at the pace and 2 at the trot. Mixed cards were the norm here.

What was the total purse for the day?

$23,100 across the card. Purse is the money the race offered, split by finishing position.

Which class conditions were carded?

3000CLHC, 3000CL OP, FMNW1PMLT, NW1000 and NW2PMLT, plus 4 others. Each one is a set of eligibility conditions rather than a grade.

How many races were on the card?

9 races, of which 9 carry a full chart with finishing positions. 9 horses appear across the card.

Are the payout figures available for this date?

No. Mutuel sheets were printed without a year on them, so a sheet is only attached to a card when at least three horse names match a date of the same month and day. Nothing matched here, and no price is guessed at.

When in the year was this card run?

It was a Saturday in May 2003. The meeting ran from spring into autumn rather than year-round, so a season reads as a scatter of afternoons and evenings — the 2003 index shows which other dates survive around this one.

What is the difference between the entries and the chart?

An entry sheet is printed before the race and lists the field as drawn, with post positions and the driver named at the time. A chart is written afterwards and fixes what happened: the order of finish, the beaten margins, the quarter fractions and the time. Scratches and driver changes fall between the two, so where both stand for one date they do not always agree.