It's mid April, Spring, the traditional Florida winter dates are over and they have run the Wood Memorial. So why did Gulfstream with a track running in direct competition with them 20 miles down the road out handle NYRA the past 2 days?

Saturday's Aqueduct card was a complete and total piece of garbage; at least they had some full fields, that would be the only positive. Probably the worst Saturday card ever given the time of year.

We know what to expect on the inner Jacobson, Rodriguez, Rice circuit; but wait it's April the main track, Florida horses are back. Of the 9 races only 3 were for horses that had ever beaten non state bred winners and one of them had a 4 horse field and another had 5. The late pick 4 consisted of a pair of maiden races, NYB NW1X and the 8th an open NW1X where at least 3 of the 5 starters had ever beaten a winner!!!

I invested maybe a grand total of $1,000 on the inner track debacle over 4 months.I eagerly anticipated Wood day and a chance to wager on home turf. Last Saturday's Wood card had some nice stakes and full fields in the preliminary races, a feat without use of the turf course for sure. It was nice to have the former major league circuit be relevant and have some buzz; along with a 15 million dollar handle as opposed to 5 million this week!!!

Gulfstream with an innovative .20 cent pick 6 bet, a 20% take out on most exotics out handled NYRA and Santa Anita on Friday. It beat NYRA on Saturday by the 500,000 in the pick 6 pool which obviously creates interest in the other races throughout the day.

Clueless Kay and company are in for a very rude wake up call real soon. How in the world can anyone justify paying out the purse money they are to horseman for such a product? They want to privatize! Who in the world would pay a nickel for this broken business model? The political vultures are lurking and the party will be over real soon boys.

They might as well make David Jacobson CEO of NYRA, he seems to be the only one here with a clue how to make money!

Good luck,

Frank D.