Why I like horse racing

[Scamper]

Most things in the world nowadays are crooked.
Take a look at the media, politicians, governments,
schools, other gambling games, men playing
women's sports, etc. Nothing makes sense anymore;
but racing does. You can evaluate a race after it's
finished and find that the winner was legitimate
about 99 % of the time. It's fair, honest and everyone
has an equal chance of winning. And that, my friends,
is why I like it.

[elhelmete]

This will end well.

[lefty359]

I am in agreement scamper
When a race player moans about how horse racing is crooked I always say: If you think it's crooked and you're still betting doesn't that make you kind of crazy?

[PhantomOnTour]

Originally Posted by elhelmete

This will end well.

Couldn't have said it better myself

[Geno_Gino]

Can a three-year-old colt identify as a filly and run in the Kentucky Oaks?

(Seems to me it would be OK in today's world, but only if we used the proper pronouns.)

[Dave Schwartz]

Originally Posted by elhelmete

This will end well.

Simple, elegant, makes a point.

I like it!

[thaskalos]

Is this a gag? It's hard to tell...

[headhawg]

After 25 posts Scamper has developed a theme.

[castaway01]

Originally Posted by headhawg

After 25 posts Scamper has developed a theme.

I was going to guess "clueless a-hole" but I figured I had that one locked up already.

[kyle r]

Originally Posted by Scamper

Most things in the world nowadays are crooked.
Take a look at the media, politicians, governments,
schools, other gambling games, men playing
women's sports, etc. Nothing makes sense anymore;
but racing does. You can evaluate a race after it's
finished and find that the winner was legitimate
about 99 % of the time. It's fair, honest and everyone
has an equal chance of winning. And that, my friends,
is why I like it.

I give this a mostly true. “Fair and honest?” Obviously there is cheating, but it’s mostly to win. And as long as we are talking about the race itself and not the industry - on a comparison basis with the larger world - low bar, but yeah…horse, jockey, simplicity of the endeavor…it remains unique as far as I can see.

[thaskalos]

When I was 21...I thought that horse racing was the ideal form of gambling, and the best intellectual challenge that a person could find.

Now that I am 61...I think it's nothing but a gigantic waste of precious time.

[proximity]

Originally Posted by thaskalos

When I was 21...I thought that horse racing was the ideal form of gambling, and the best intellectual challenge that a person could find.

Now that I am 61...I think it's nothing but a gigantic waste of precious time.

something like this.

i think most of us here probably came up with a game where, ironically, we wasted more time but that wasted time was infinitely more enjoyable.

we wasted time sometimes hunting down a fresh drf, driving to the tracks, rubbing elbows with and listening to loud and endless opinions of insecure contrarian degenerates, driving home, staying up late and scanning neatly filed results charts for the next nugget, rinse and repeat.

there was a kinesthetic (?) element too. marking the form with a new flair pen, smelling the track coffee, the smoke, and sometimes the manure in the paddock. stumbling out of bed, brewing a k-cup, turning on tvg and a bunch of computers to compete with whales just doesn't offer the same appeal.

jmo

[thaskalos]

It’s like walking up to the only poker table in the place…and finding out that Phil Ivey, Phil Galfond, Patrik Antonius and Daniel Negreanu are already sitting there. No thanks.

[Michael]

Originally Posted by thaskalos

It’s like walking up to the only poker table in the place…and finding out that Phil Ivey, Phil Galfond, Patrik Antonius and Daniel Negreanu are already sitting there. No thanks.

Those guys won't even sit at a 6 max cash game with real players. They'd get fleeced. thaskalos, you know about Otb_Redbaron?

[classhandicapper]

Originally Posted by thaskalos

When I was 21...I thought that horse racing was the ideal form of gambling, and the best intellectual challenge that a person could find.

Now that I am 61...I think it's nothing but a gigantic waste of precious time.

I've thought it was gigantic waste of my time for a long time, but that intellectual challenge part keeps me studying, doing all the work, and playing.