> And you want to travel with him, and you want to travel blind
> And then you think maybe you'll trust him
> For he's touched your perfect body with his mind

Change “him” to “her” above re: Indiana Downs’ host and I think you’ve nailed it. [One of the fascinating characteristics of this board over the years is how an expressed idea digresses with each post, to the extent that it can warp into… song lyrics and their merits! Hmmph.]

And now, pardon me for a digression of my own involving another tv analyst I put in my doghouse. This one has a happy ending though:

A few years ago, when she first started participating as a NYRA host, I developed a disliking for Gabby Gaudet. Why? One day while analyzing a race, provoked in no uncertain terms by her loud and aggressive NYRA co-host Andy Serling, Gaudet said she discounted a certain horse’s chances because she’d viewed the replay of his last race at Monmouth and didn’t like the way he zig-zagged his way in the stretch. Having seen the same replay, I felt her take was way wrong. Jockey Joe Bravo tried to rally on the rail, but got squeezed in traffic and stopped, necessitating Bravo to cut back, swing out and rally on in a wider path. By no means was the horse bearing zig-out/in like a short punch drunk horse she’d implied. The horse had a traffic issue. What she told her audience was bullsh*t seemingly just to counter Serling. Just to fill and say SOMETHING. Anyway, with that, her stock dropped with me and I put her on double-secret probation. Hey, it happens. However…

Fast forward to last year, I think it was. Ms. Gaudet did something that totally redeemed herself with me: Now on TVG, she told her audience that HER HUSBAND’S (Norm Casse’s) horse was going to run much better than in his previous start. She gave her reasons and perhaps she even picked the horse to finish first (something I couldn’t care less about). The important thing was she had inside information as to how the horse was training and slam-dunk warned her viewers about it. I think the horse won. Suffice it to say that now, Ms. Gaudet is someone I don’t ignore. I really liked what she did. Compare that to Nancy Holthus analyzing a horse her husband has in at Oaklawn, or compare that to paddock comments made by Maggie Wolfendale about her husband’s horses. They both say little or nothing.

Tonight’s case and point. Here. In the Twilight Zone.