Re: Careful What You Wish For (422 Views)
Posted by:
Bally Ache (IP Logged)
Date: September 25, 2007 08:09PM
If you think you can handicap on artificial surfaces as well as you can on dirt, then I suggest you're not a very good handicapper to begin with.
If you think it doesn't matter whether a horse goes in 1:10 or 1:11 3/5, you're either a novice or you're in the wrong game.
It takes a long, long time to get good at this game. It appears that artificial surfaces will tend to level the playing field. If you think you're good at this, why would you want that?
It remains to be seen whether or not it's beneficial to the horses, so why the headlong rush?
The only defense the horseplayer has in this game where the deck is stacked against us, is to not bet. I don't bet artificial surfaces. If it proves to be the wave of the future,then I'll have to either accept it or get out. For the time being, Santa Anita, Keeneland, Del Mar et al can go to hell.