I'm pretty much with Riot here. I thought Keeneland was ugly, but not as bad this Spring. Last fall, from a racing perspective, it was exciting, though it may not have been the "best" racing in some peoples' eyes. However, for a handicapper, like Riot said, every surface has its own idiosyncracies and Keeneland was no different. If half of the people who spent weeks complaining about it instead of paying attention to it and figuring it out would have done the opposite, they would have been enjoying the same financial fun that I was enjoying at the time playing it. It made perfect sense to me, for once. People could handicap the old Keeneland surface so easily, and the new one for the first meet was essentially just the opposite. Adjust, and cash. Repeat.
It takes extra work to figure these races out once we figure out how the surface treats various running styles.
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