TGJB or TGAB,
i just got back from tampa so i'm sorry i couldn't ask you sooner. i was wondering how you would have interpreted Ponche's Image's line. i keyed him underneath the top three choices and lost. otherwise the day wasn't bad thanks to fafnir later on the card. i'll say one thing, new york tracks aren't the ones in need of video lottery terminals. it's kind of sad to see such thin fields on saturdays down there.

by the way, i always wanted to ask you a question about ground loss versus individual horses' running styes. i ran into alan upstate two years ago and asked about a NWX1 horse (it may have been Rate Base) who seemed to be getting sucked along to fourth and fifth-palce finishes. however, he had earned some very competitive figures, which were concealed due to the fact that he'd been running wide quite frequently. he was something like 20-1 that day, despite his good numbers and ran out. however, alan said he wouldn't play him, citing prior disappointments.
i was curious to know at what point one gives up on such horses? do either of you, or anybody else out there, look at figures earned on certain part of the tracks, maybe similarly to the way another poster mentioned that figures should be interpreted by track surface and specific tracks? i'm not talking about track biases presumably affecting all horses, but horses always preferring to be wide (e.g. young horses off the rail).
also, trainers for instance, especially in california, are generally hesitant about horses starting from the one post... is there anything you guys do to determine whether or not certain horses aren't benefitting from 1w1w notations and may perhaps prefer to be 3w3w, for instance?
thanks
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