Re: Change of topic (1060 Views)
Posted by:
jimbo66 (IP Logged)
Date: May 24, 2017 02:07PM
MJ,
You could say more, but you are being too nice.
It was another in a long line of uninformed posts by Sekrah. (that was me being nice, "uninformed" is not the right word)
Rail was bad in that Derby. Yes, brilliant statement, if the rail was bad that would have to mean that Shackleford would run poorly in the Preakness. Because facts and results in horse racing are extremely binary and not open to other variables. It is that kind of game.
Sek,
You not being able to fathom a bias is your choice, but plenty of the rest of the population understands it. That time period at Churchill Downs was particularly gruesome and was discussed ad nauseum on this board at the time. CD somehow managed to mess up 3 or 4 straight big days with bad rails. Two successive Breeders Cups along with 1 or 2 Derbies. IT was bad.
I think you should perhaps author a book, "Track biases, global warming, men landing on the moon and other myths perpetrated on the public......"