Re: Enough crying about Polytrack (516 Views)
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jimbo66 (IP Logged)
Date: July 24, 2007 07:34PM
Sorry, I have to add one more post as well. If horses were running to form on the poly, then so be it, it wouldn't matter to this bettor whether the final time was 1:08 or 1:14 for 6 furlongs. Hell, if you look at some of Jerry's older posts about "are race horses getting faster", you have to admit that you can at least make a very good case that final times are controlled by track cushion on dirt tracks.
But from what this bettor has seen, the races are not formful and I don't think the figures are holding up as well. People can disagree with that and I guess since P-Dub cashed a few tickets last week at Delmar, so he is a fan of it. But from what I saw, particularly at Keenland, the races were farcical at times. At one point something like 3 out of 90 races were won from the front. I don't want races to be "wire to wire" all the time, no serious Thorograph player would, since speed biased tracks don't produce formful results either (look at the old Keenland speed highway), but 3 out of 90 is not right. When the horses that go to the lead and run slow paces and save all the ground, get passed by horses with inferior figures that are also 8 wide on the final turn, then results are not normal.
Ok, I shut up now. Thank god there is no talk of Saratoga going to Poly.