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.)