Re: Synthetic Surfaces and New York Racing (509 Views)
Posted by:
imallin (IP Logged)
Date: July 26, 2007 05:38AM
Back up the brinks truck?
There's no brinks truck when overbet favorites go to the lead and just keep going and pay 4 dollars.
Personally, i like polytrack. Poly turns a 6 furlong race into a route and a conventional dirt track turns a 6 furlong race into a 2 furlong race. Is that what you guys like, whoever gets the lead wins?
I believe that handicappers who are professing their distain for polytrack and criticizing the 'aesthetic beauty' of horses completing 6f in 110 rather than 114 are handicappers who are losing money betting on the wax.
Plain and simple why polytrack is better for the horseplayer is because it makes the handicapping process harder. When the handicapping process becomes harder, the rewards to master that surface become greater. Personally, i like hard, i don't want easy. I don't want the entire world to know that the 6-5 shot is lone speed and thats the 'right' horse to play. Forget that, i want kaos. I want to be able to bet on a 20-1 shot and feel like i have a shot to win, regardless of running style.
As far as blaming the 'staggerthon' as to why you hate polytrack thats a bunch of bunk. You would all be lined up to bet this place if you had the key to the vault.
Anything that can produce the odd 60-1 shot to rally from dead last and win is music to my ears and something i'll embrace.