In tomorrow's DRF, in a move which will make David Rex and others ecstatic, DRF announces that it will run a weekly POKER column. I guess this is a matter of if you can't beat em, join em.

That's really not why I'm pissed at Crist. With all of the topics worth addressing in racing, like drugs, like overhyped overpriced stallion prospects making early exits, like the various problems encountering NYRA, Churchill and Magna, Steven Crist used his very widely read weekly column in the Form last Saturday to make the following points which none of us ever would have realized without him telling us:

1) large fields increase handle, and

2) horseplayers like large fields.

Duh. Look, Steven, if you don't want to address racing's more political issues, why don't you make a push for a $1 pick six wager, the way you advocated 10 cent superfectas? Or will the Pick 6 remain a "rich get richer" proposition, available mostly to those with deep pockets?

Sorry if I diverted any attention from Sir Isaac Newton.