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Originally posted by GameTheory
They could close the pools ten minutes before the race, and you'd still have basically the same phenomenon. The pools would close, and then 30 seconds or so later, you'd see your beloved 5-1 shot drop down to 2-1. Argh!
There would still not be anything to be done about it, but I suppose it would end discussion of bets being placed after the race went off.
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My thoughts exactly. I don't begrudge the track a few extra seconds of handle, it makes my pools bigger and possibly contributes to the next purse raise that improves the racing product. Besides the bell going off and the sound of the gate cracking open is a nice "your shut out" alarm on the occasions that I am at the track.
The industry is suffering too much from overregulation and fan indifference to wish them any less than they can squeeze out (except for possibly those exorbitant cokes
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Bill
