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Originally Posted by castaway01
This is a not-minor point. I don't know that they SHOULD be souped up, but regardless of that, you used to see a lot more wire-to-wire juiced-up types than today. Maybe it's good that there's less of that; but the game hasn't gotten easier to beat because of the way the betting landscape has changed.
But if you watch the average card of claimers 20 years ago and then today, there are a lot more slow-paced races, every jockey trying to be patient and wait. If you handicap these races like you did 20 years ago, you're going to get destroyed. It's a tendency I have to fight and actually keeps me from ever seriously wagering again. If my brain doesn't get me, the CAWs will.
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If my memory serves me correctly and no guarantee it does, back in the day in SoCal it seemed the track would play faster on days with big high dollar races than not, like they were hoping to get a track record set to get some added press. We are talking pre internet.
