Let's start a discussion for the weekend : What is a scratch?

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A scratch is when an entry is withdrawn before the race.

 

I have $2 on you to make it out of the starting gate before the other horses lap you in Kentucky tomorrow.

 

Betting money on horses is a sucker's game. Or on dogs for that matter.

 

Fissure sound like something that occurs in volcanoes.

 

If anyone wants to know what a scratch is simply take a wire brush and rub it across the face of a coin you like. You will have your answer and a specimen to compare for other scratches.
Semper Fi

 

A scratch is an action made by some agent against a surface. The act of scratching may or may not leave evidence of the occurrence. Evidence would include any traces left such as displaced material.

 

Very funny. Thanks for posting the video. I think I remember a thread on CT where members posted a photo with their dog. Apparently, many dog owners had pets that resemble themselves. I believe it. I noticed that a few of those Corgi dogs in the video didn't have a clue what they were doing. Nevertheless, the shorter ones with pleasing proportions were cute little dogs fit for a Queen.

We all have different tastes and I prefer the more popular breeds. I'll bet those little Corgi dogs make a lot of noise. That would be very annoying if one were around. They look like they would be good rat catchers when they were not sitting around waiting to be fed.

 

Who thinks of these things?!

 

A scratch is a scratch is a scratch is a scratch. A scratch is also something that is all-too-ambiguous, subjective, inconsistently defined/determined and ruled on by TPG for disqualifying coins from otherwise receiving straight grades. A scratch to one grader but not to the other...a scratch by this company but not another...a scratch on Monday but not on Friday. Unless of an obvious, deliberate/wanton, man-made scratch(es) in the form of grafitti and/or that so-alters the originality of the coin by covering through/obliterating a device, font or part of...to the extent of being difficult or impossible to recognize...a scratch should be scratched with regard to preventing or excluding a straight grade. Way too many beautiful and genuine coins go the way of "details" slabs and/or body bags for a half-ass scratch that often can hardly be seen and could just as often and easily be random/expected over 100 or 200 years of life. A "scratch" is also a small, wily but wildly popular animated and nut-obsessed squirrel-like Ice Age pre-historic character in the movies...!

 

It’s not who thinks of them, it’s who does them? There are so many that actually do them.

 

Did you boys and girls see that move that jockey made about 3/16ths of a mile out to get around that horse in front of him that was tiring down? If he'd have waited just a second longer that lane he switched to would have been closed and he'd have ended up an also ran, full of hoof, but nowhere to go with it. Go to the replay and you'll see it, it's where he won the race. You can see the horse's head turn to the opened lane just before he took it. It was really a beautiful move. We horses tend to notice these kinds of things.

 

I noticed it live. Messier was so tired he basically stopped and the winner had to side step him and, boom, he was through the lane and in the clear.

 

Good eye, that's exactly it.

 

Full of hoof? Is that all he was full of?

 

I have to say he was acting a little funny after the race. IDK. Maybe he was on IVM for COVID, the CDC says it's for horses.

 

The fissure definition doesn't work because it describes other features that are not scratches such as the edge of a delamination. Also some planchet flaws not produced by scratching that survive the strike can also fit this definition. I have good examples of both in my collection and neither are scratches.

 

And kick them in the ass if needed

 

I loved all of that comment