I get entries for Arapahoe Park through equibase’s virtual stable service.
Just recently, I clicked on the “overnight” link that comes with the early entry notification.
What is this, exactly? Who is it for?
Having this summary is very useful for me, but it’s an odd assortment of information, quite unlike the program!
Overnights are for anybody but are of most interest to owners, trainers and jock agents. It is how you know if your horse got in and which race he is in. It also tells you how many were in the races they didn’t use and which extra races they wrote for the next entry date. A lot of times if a race doesn’t fill they will bring it back for next time.
Overnights aren’t much use to the serious handicapper. They are issued after the draw is made so horsemen know if their horse(s) got in and the race number and post position. Sometimes, there are coggins test notations, how many horses entered, how many drew in, lots of info that is pretty much useless to anyone but the trainer. I cant access your like because my pdf reader went belly up again…
Not just the trainers. Owners and racing managers also look at the overnights to see what races which didn’t fill got written back by the racing secretary. Not every race in the condition book goes and overnights are a way that the track “hangs an extra” or writes an extra race that wasn’t in the original book.
Interesting!
Yeah, I noticed that there’s the card, and there’s the note of “original 1” or whatever, plus four extra races listed. I also see notes for flipping halters here, which aren’t on the program. Nice to know.
What’s the deal with extra races? Are those added after the condition book has been published?
And this? “Attention trainers!!! Please do NOT remove the ‘in today’ signs from stall doors” I had assumed that the trainers put those there–does the track do that?
A track will have 10 or so regular races in the condition book, and 3-4 “extras” per day. They will cobble together a day’s races from those. Extra races for conditions not published in the book - perhaps in some cases by trainer or agent request - are printed on the overnites.
The “original” refers to the race’s number in the condition book. An “X” means it was an extra.
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