PR Harness the record of the oval

Race Day

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

12 races at Plainridge Racecourse, pace, $42,900 in purses.

The Card

The official chart survives for 12 of the 12 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 1:57.0. 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.

Winners on the day: TORQUE LOBELL N, TRAVELLING WHITBY, DAY OF THE DRAGON, HIDDEN DANGER, FODEN HOLMES N, SAND SAVE, MASTER STERLING, DA-DA-DIAMOND, FREE SPENDER, ORMI, NUCLEAR MENACE, SOUTHWIND NIGHT.

First Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $2,500 · 7 starters · Track FT · 3000CL

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
SCR SCR CAMSICLE -
28.331.229.029.1
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

28.3 · 1:00.0 (31.2) · 1:29.0 (29.0) · 1:58.1 (29.1)

TORQUE LOBELL N (TALKSHOW LOBELL – REFLECTED GLORY- – MARK LOBELL)

Second Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $3,000 · 8 starters · Track FT · NW350PS

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
8/6Q 7 DIRECT MISTIQUE 1:57.4 31.70 Kevin P Switzer Kerry M Pratt
27.130.328.330.1
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

27.1 · 57.4 (30.3) · 1:26.2 (28.3) · 1:56.3 (30.1)

TRAVELLING WHITBY (BOOTH HANOVER – ORTHEZ – RACY PRINCE)

Third Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $6,000 · 6 starters · Track FT · 10000CLHC

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
SCR SCR MACHO UNO -
27.130.328.229.3
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

27.1 · 57.4 (30.3) · 1:26.1 (28.2) · 1:55.4 (29.3)

DAY OF THE DRAGON (DRAGON'S LAIR – TOWN GUIDE – BIG TOWNER)

Fourth Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $3,500 · 6 starters · Track FT · 5000CL

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
SCR SCR BROCKSHANN -
27.130.029.329.2
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

27.1 · 57.1 (30.0) · 1:26.4 (29.3) · 1:56.1 (29.2)

HIDDEN DANGER (NO NUKES – HIDDEN BEAUTY – BIG TOWNER)

Fifth Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $3,000 · 6 starters · Track FT · NW350PS

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
SCR SCR PENTAGON DON -
28.230.129.130.0
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

28.2 · 58.3 (30.1) · 1:27.4 (29.1) · 1:57.4 (30.0)

FODEN HOLMES N (HOLMES HANOVER – LUMBER JANE – LUMBER DREAM)

Sixth Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $2,500 · 9 starters · Track FT · 3000CL

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
9/24T 8 DAYLON TURBO 2:01.1 63.80 James E Hardy James E Hardy
27.129.428.430.2
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

27.1 · 57.0 (29.4) · 1:25.4 (28.4) · 1:56.1 (30.2)

SAND SAVE (BEACH TOWEL – SOME TIME LOVER – TYLER B)

Seventh Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $3,000 · 9 starters · Track FT · 4000CL

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
9/27Q 9 GRADY'S FALCON 2:00.4 29.10 John Hogan Randy L Bickmore
27.129.328.429.4
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

27.1 · 56.4 (29.3) · 1:25.3 (28.4) · 1:55.2 (29.4)

MASTER STERLING (TROUBLEMAKER – PATTI STERLING – CAPE KENNEDY)

Eighth Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $2,400 · 9 starters · Track FT · NW250PS

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
9/7 9 BUNNY TRAP 1:59.0 44.80 Michael E Eaton Michael E Eaton
27.230.129.031.0
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

27.2 · 57.3 (30.1) · 1:26.3 (29.0) · 1:57.3 (31.0)

DA-DA-DIAMOND (SWEET DRAGON – ISLE OF PINES – FALCON SEELSTER)

Ninth Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $4,000 · 9 starters · Track FT · 7500CL

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
9/8T 6 ART ST PARTNERS 1:59.3 3.20 Joseph R Therrien Arthur L Dufresne Jr
27.231.029.130.1
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

27.2 · 58.2 (31.0) · 1:27.3 (29.1) · 1:57.4 (30.1)

FREE SPENDER (ABERCROMBIE – DAWN MICHELE – SONSAM)

Tenth Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $2,400 · 9 starters · Track FT · NW250PS

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
9/6Q 4 IMA BROADWAY STAR 1:59.0 11.30 Denis Denis Denis Denis
27.429.129.431.0
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

27.4 · 57.0 (29.1) · 1:26.4 (29.4) · 1:57.4 (31.0)

ORMI (LONG FELLA – MISS GREEN JEANS – DIGNATARIAN)

Eleventh Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $3,600 · 9 starters · Track FT · NW500PS

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
9/10T 3 SHILOH RUMMY 1:57.0 65.20 Gregory J Annaloro Linda Keiran Harrod
26.429.229.229.1
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

26.4 · 56.1 (29.2) · 1:25.3 (29.2) · 1:54.4 (29.1)

NUCLEAR MENACE (NO NUKES – SEMALU FANTASTIC – BIG TOWNER)

Twelfth Race

Pace · 1 Mile · Purse $7,000 · 8 starters · Track FT · 15000CLHC

FinPPHorseTripTimeOddsDriverTrainer
SCR SCR VEGAS EXCALIBUR -
27.228.328.429.2
quarters · widest is slowest · 1st qtr was quickest

27.2 · 56.0 (28.3) · 1:24.4 (28.4) · 1:54.1 (29.2)

SOUTHWIND NIGHT (MAGICAL MIKE – NICOLE ALMAHURST – ABERCROMBIE)

Questions about this card

Which class conditions were carded?

3000CL, NW350PS, 10000CLHC, 5000CL and 4000CL, plus 4 others. Each one is a set of eligibility conditions rather than a grade.

How many races were on the card?

12 races, of which 12 carry a full chart with finishing positions. 102 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.

Where does 14 October 2003 sit in the season?

It was a Tuesday in October 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.

Why do some dates show entries and others show results?

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.

Was this a trotting or a pacing card?

All pace races.

What was the total purse for the day?

$42,900 across the card. Purse is the money the race offered, split by finishing position.