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Originally Posted by jamey1977
What a bunch of morons. They are about as lame as the Sore-Loser Casinos who throw-out successful black-jack players. You frickin fools have taken millions from us and there's a chance some bridge-jumper can take 5,000 dollars from you , morons and still taking extreme risk. I would never bet any 4 to 5 morning line on a 6 horse field. Even 100 thousand to show, The 6 and 5 horse fields are the hardest ones sometimes. No pace, just wild, anything can happen. These idiots should be outlawed from doing this. What's next cancelling win wagering on 2 horse fields. ? You idiots can go stuff it.
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Here's the deliciously ironic part of it all. Is that these bets that they're NOT booking are long term losers. They're saying to no to money. Not only that, but when someone plunks down a large show bet, other people send money into all the other horses, so, not only do you make a profit when the heavy chalk is off the board at least 1 out of 20 times, but you make a profit on all the other horses from monies that you never otherwise would have seen.
There was a race last summer, i believe it was the summer, up in the No Cal fairs where a horse named Tribesman was banned from the show betting. When i saw this i was sick to my stomach because i knew he was a prime candidate to be off the board. You see, Tribesman is a one dimensional speed horse and if he doesnt get the lead, he probably won't hang around for 2nd and 3rd either. Sure enough, he got dueled into defeat by a horse who had an inside post and ran up the track. There was even a minus PLACE pool of like 30k. I took as much as i could take, but i was ill knowing that if 30k came in to place, its a lock that 100k would have come in to show.
NOT booking short term losing bets just shows you the mentality of tracks. These tracks have a short term philosophy, that's why they can't stand the thought of lowering takeout. They know in the short term they're going to lose a few bucks, but as time wears on, they'll get all that money back and then some.
The biggest problem with horse racing in America is that horse track managements know nothing about GAMBLING. They might know something about horses, but nothing about gaming. Racetrack managements running racetracks is like the delivery man who brings the supplies to a bakery actually coming inside and baking the bread also.
Thank god Betfair is inflitrating themselves into American racing, we need SOMEONE who 'gets it"
