Thanks for all of the responses gang.

Simucasting has become the good and evil for the racing player. The good is that should never be a rush to find or make a play on a race. Why because there will always be more, somewhere, next week. If the day is not working out I shut it down and wait for the proverbial other day.

The evil is that the days of spending a relaxing casual day at the races, on the big days, are over. There is no 30 minutes between races to spend creating wagers, looking at the post parade, etc for a ten race card. The card has become a 40 race card which requires pre-race day preparation to whittle things down to 10-15 solid bets. For me at least.

This takes a hell of a lot of work and a little bit of a different disposition from the norm. Keep in mind I am only talking about the big days. A drop in drop out play on the CD Pick-Four or whatever else like last weekend is entirely different.

I wouldn't log in to my online stock account and buy several thousand dollars worth of stock without doing my homework. I do not intend to do the same thing this Saturday when I am playing the horses.