Who else out there did not know what was meant by the term “Garrison finish”?<\/p>\n
It’s nothing more than “a finish in which the winner comes from behind at the end”. Wow. NHOI. Yet there it is, on one of the word-a-day desk calendars here at the Home Office.<\/p>\n
You’d think that in the recent age of the Big Zenyatta Mondatta, there would have been at least one mention or a handful of this phenomenon of the Garrison finish. But it escaped our eyes (and ears). Yet how many times did we hear her cardiac-arrest-inducing rallies being described as “Silky Sullivan-like”? Ha! Why did we never come across Garrison finish until today? Just when you think you know it all, you learn that you’re never too old to learn something new! Cazart!<\/p>\n
Aqueduct and Santa Anita are provided pro forma, with no sane ambitions attached thereto. Rather, prepare for the ’Gulf!<\/p>\n
Rundown For hire are…<\/p>\n Rundown Fair Grounds is shooting off a special statebred-stakes day today. Might have to examine that further. Pretty good everywhere else, too. Way-better than the biggies, save Gulfstream.<\/p>\n WMF Report: No Garrison finishes for any of the following, at least in terms of how their respective tracks have been playing! …Chas. Town<\/strong> remains up-front at 6½f. …Turf-speed at Fair Grounds<\/strong> at 5½f, WMF 183 on the grass, nearly unheard of! …Golden Gate<\/strong> also playing against synth-type at 6f. …Hawthorne<\/strong>, Laurel<\/strong>, Mountaineer<\/strong>, PennNat<\/strong>, OK that way too. …Los Jerkamitos finally back on the speed-trip, WMF 450. …Turf Paradise<\/strong> now down to only 6½f prohibitvely on the lead. …<\/p>\n Finally, for a Garrison finish to our discussion of the Garrison finish, we inform you that the term was inspired by the exciting late-riding style of the American Hall of Fame jockey Edward “Snapper” Garrison, whose last-fifth-of-a-second heroics captured the fancy of the sports fans of the day.<\/p>\n And now you know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Who else out there did not know what was meant by the term “Garrison finish”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,4,3],"tags":[13,7,6],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-picks","category-wmf","tag-commentary","tag-longshots","tag-track-bias"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pavW5M-d1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAqueduct<\/strong> 5, 7, 9
\nGulfstream<\/strong> 4, 6, 10
\nSanta Anita<\/strong> 4, 7, 8<\/p>\n
\nLaurel<\/strong> 2, 5, 8
\nTampa<\/strong> 5, 6, 10
\nHawthorne<\/strong> 5, 7, 9
\nFair Grounds<\/strong> 5<\/del>, 7, 9, 11
\nOaklawn<\/strong> 6, 7, 9
\nTurfway<\/strong> 3, 6, 9<\/p>\n