Dear Jerry,

The board is getting to the point where the occaisional discussion on handicapping and sheet reading exchanges are overshadowed by personal vendetta's and charachter assasinations where inuendo can superseed facts.

Your friend Chuckles is allowed to dominate this board, with an occaisional insightful comment but more often than not, its loaded with pompous arrogance.

I will refrain from posting here, as the hadicapping insights are harder to find vs wading through the NVA (I'll call it NON VALUE ADDED) stuff that seems to permeate the board.(such as the lesson on Japan we recently had to endure)

Perhaps you should consider two forums or boards, one for just handicapping, and one for everything else or even better yet, set Chuckles up his own "BLOG" where he can go off on CI (I'll call it Chuckie "ISMS").



NC Tony

PS Since I'm in Charlotte NC, I don't bet the Preaknees as I am attending the NASCAR ALLSTAR Race on that day. Usually the Preakness offers little value, but the rest of the day's card looks great.

My two cents say, that the only value play in the race will be CQ. Not sure he will win it, but he will be moving together with SS every step of the way, with all the cheap speed signed up that may compromise Hard Spun chances.