I’m sure Tony is a fantastic person and an even better horseplayer. I’m also sure he gets rewarded through his handicapping at the windows 2000x than what I do. However that is not how this particular game is to be played (NHC). Maybe this year is an outlier, and someone grinding away short prices will win. But I don’t see it the way they choose races with large / even fields. To be fair to your point, I always thought it was funny that the winner of this contest got the eclipse award vs one with a more established track record. Hell, if I had gotten lucky enough, I damn sure would’ve known I should not be giving that speech. Part of the prize I suppose? I just really hate these sour grapes from all these horseplayers coming out saying “the takeout sucks and all the people that did well blindly played bombs.� That simply cannot be further away from the truth. A lot who finished in the top 10 are going to take so much unjust heat, and for what? They gamed the system? ... to that I say, give me a break. You’re a horseplayer and should’ve figured that out years ago (rhetorically speaking, of course.)