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i think we need to revisit why morning lines started to begin with...
some may remember years ago the Armstrong numbers.. that was a sheet that came out every day that had their odds tagged to them for every horse in a race.. an entry would have had different odds for the 2 or more horses in the entry.. then they rated the horses from top to bottom and assigned an order to them and called the horses Armstrong 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. etc. all numerically.
when you bet your horses with a bookmaker whether it was on the phone or in person, you called the Track like Bowie. 5th at Bowie Armstrong 3 was the example.
the morning lines were used by the bookmakers to give him an idea how much of a hazard he had to booking the horse..
towards the end of the Armstrong sheet, they used the track morning line until they went out of business. before that the Armstrong line was pretty respected.
50 years ago, The Armstrong was the bookmakers bible.
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