richiebee Wrote:
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> Watching Kentucky Downs, with its undulating
> irregularly shaped course and
> getting shifted from one camera feed to another is
> kind of like watching the
> races in a fun house mirror, kind of a confusing
> scenario which is complicated
> (as Boscar mentioned) when the track AV people
> aren't updating the numbers on
> the leading runners.
>

My favorite moment of KD viewing on Saturday came in the running of the 6th race in which the listing of the four current front-runners, inclusive of their odds, had a horse whose odds were "SCR". I could only deduce that the horse had not been informed of his status, or just felt that scratches be damned. It is absolutely worth one's time to watch a route race because you have no perspective, whatsoever, about where they are on the "oval" (actually, I have no clue as to the shape of the track).