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08-05-2017, 05:25 PM
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Whitney-WV Derby post time
A few years ago, I wrote how these 2 races went off within 30 seconds of one another. As of this writing, the post time for these same 2 races is within 1 minute of each other. Clueless people are still in charge. Will they ever learn??? 
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08-05-2017, 05:44 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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Will they ever CARE?
 B Squared in the big race.
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08-05-2017, 05:46 PM
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You can't make this up.
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08-05-2017, 05:54 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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The better race went off first.
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08-05-2017, 05:57 PM
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If you're Mountaineer why would you want to run your marquee race the EXACT same time as a grade 1 at another track? Boggles the mind.
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08-05-2017, 06:02 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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Folk there not too bright.
Why even run in the daylight to get a bigger handle and then sabotage the premier race?
Folks not too bright there at all.
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08-05-2017, 06:06 PM
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@TimeformUSfigs
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Horse racing in a nutshell.
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08-05-2017, 06:07 PM
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clean money
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incompetence is the only honest answer
Shame, given that the WV-D was actually a much better betting race than the Whitney.
Could have been an encore to the Whitney, rather than compete with New York.
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08-05-2017, 06:13 PM
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You'd think on their big day they could make the rail at least reasonable instead of having all the horses running eight wide throughout.
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08-05-2017, 06:15 PM
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clean money
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Horse racing is funny.
The've all got absolutely no media sense.
They all (no track, nyra, cal,fla, no tracks) don't know how to card good betting races, or even to simply card full fields
The rules on the field of play are vague and enforced by inconsistent stewards
no-holds-barred performance enhancement
add in: they don't know how to maintain/configure a fair track
If it wasn't the greatest game in the world, I'd have nothing to do with this crap.
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Last edited by Robert Fischer; 08-05-2017 at 06:17 PM.
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08-05-2017, 06:32 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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And they can't time a race.
Don't forget that.
A RACE.
And they can't time it.
Like a high school track meet can.
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08-05-2017, 06:51 PM
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The industry has a peculiar way of running a game whose betting is driven almost exclusively by out-of-town wagers. 37 thoroughbred racetracks are running today...and all of them are expecting to do business.
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08-05-2017, 08:17 PM
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Just another Facist
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Quote:
Originally Posted by thaskalos
The industry has a peculiar way of running a game whose betting is driven almost exclusively by out-of-town wagers. 37 thoroughbred racetracks are running today...and all of them are expecting to do business.
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I think that's the real problem. I've been screaming contraction for years. As the pool of players gets smaller, they keep running the same amount of tracks, and at the same time!
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08-05-2017, 08:36 PM
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Buckle Up
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JustRalph
I think that's the real problem. I've been screaming contraction for years. As the pool of players gets smaller, they keep running the same amount of tracks, and at the same time!
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Here's the thread I started a few years back....You got one?
http://www.paceadvantage.com/forum/s...d.php?t=116948
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08-05-2017, 10:09 PM
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Just another Facist
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