Re: Racing Maiden America: Is the tail wagging the dog? (569 Views)
Posted by:
richiebee (IP Logged)
Date: November 26, 2006 04:52PM
NCT:
I do not know if it is baked in to your figures, but I am sure that average
win mutuel/ ROI are directly related to field size. Maiden races tend to produce
the largest fields, no? Lets get to the point where we have large fields of
runners with more quality.
Day to day, Racing in NY is broken and needs to be fixed. There were less than
5000 people at Aqueduct on a beautiful Saturday to see arguably North America's
most talented runner. At the end of the day, the brilliance of Nobiz and Discreet
were bigger stories and more important for Racing long term than the fact that
a 40/1 maiden got brave on the lead in the second race. And it was great to see
Mike Smith closer to the inside rail than the outside rail in the Demoiselle.
Yes maiden races produce large mutuels, but the argument then becomes that
what we would all agree is "bad" racing is "good" when it produces large
mutuels.
