Re: Ky Downs (985 Views)
Posted by:
FrankD. (IP Logged)
Date: September 12, 2016 07:45AM
Fair,
We have to be careful when tossing around track bias's, many do not believe in them at all, pretty much the same group that states tracks don't change speeds.
TGJB takes a lot of convincing before admitting to one, we have had a few debates.
KY Downs is a short meet and a quirky track with many pointing for it. Not being very familiar with this meet until this year I paid a lot of attention to it.
Mark Casse had a quote the other day "Saratoga is over, now lets go for the money." It kind of shocked me at first.
I didn't play on 9/3, but did see a few comments about speed doing well. Thursday and Saturday 9/8 & 9/10 there were strong wind gusts both days.To my eye and its very difficult with the camera shots you get from there it was behind the stretch runners.
On Saturday 3 of the 10 races came from well off the pace 1st, 5th and DaHoss of the remaining 7 heats 5 of them were won by 8/5 horses or less. I would have expected a CLASS comment from BBB but per usual he just shoots his mouth off without any documentation. FWIW one of the few times I took a peek at brand R's board I saw his same CLASS rant over there. Some new material may be in order BBB!
On Sunday the first or 2nd choices won the first 9 races with the biggest price being 4.70/1 and Kittens Roar rallied from off the pace. The last race was a Rusty Arnold speed ball at a price and Frenchy didn't even fall off.
So in 2 days 15 of the 20 races were won by the 1st or 2nd betting choice with 11 of them being less than 2/1 and only one of those winners paying double digits.
On Thursday 9/8 the 2nd, 4th and 7th came from off there were 2 chalky wire jobs and this was the day that some price horses went coast to coast.
Far too many short priced winners, quite a bit of wind and a rain storm that interrupted the Saturday card.
The only thing I would take out of this purse bonanza after 4 days is the best horses who were pointing for the money got most of it.
Good luck,
Frank D.
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