"My objection is when the drug problem is characterized as “not important” and the poster goes on to brag about he happy he is to have such a rotten situation to profit from, rather than bemoan what he has to do to not lose money given the way things are."

1. As soon as you find someone that thinks illegal drug use in horseracing isn't a major problem for the entire industry let us know. You are certainly mischaracterizing everything I've read here.

2. As soon as you find someone that is bragging that he's happy about the situation because he can profit from it let us know because you are certainly mischaracterizing everything I've read here and specifically what I said.

As to adapting to a situation over which horseplayers have had no control to date, I'll repeat what I said before.

If you are going to play the game despite the drug use, you might as well try to play a winning one. It's not that difficult to beat this game using well researched trainer information as a supplement to the figures.

To those that are disgusted because they aren't winning and blame drugs for their losses, let me suggest that part of being a good horseplayer is adapting to the conditions (good or bad).

To those that are jealous that the crooks are making more money than you, just let it go and play to win yourself.

Obviously there are serious drug abuse problems that need to be addressed and corrected ASAP. Perhaps a boycott would help or even work.

In the mean time you might want to spend 50 hours or so looking over the PPs of all the horses trained by high percentage trainers and the stats provided by Thoro-Graph.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/06/2007 01:02PM by fkach.