Lower Takeouts!!!!!!!!

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Perhaps I'm being naive....I certainly haven't played harness races in a long time.

This was way back when I was a pre-teenager, maybe 11 or 12 years old, but I taped the meadows races every night, kept programs, and handicapped them...and bet my allowance money, or had my grandpa bet his money on them when I had none to bet.

Still remember some of the local horses from way back than...Morepowertoya, Jubilee Cosmos, etc. You had Palone, Snyder, Stillings, Hammer as the major drivers. Roger Houston and Jerry Ernstein as the TV analysts.

Anyway, I thought the races were very honest. There's just a lot that can tactically go wrong in harness races.

I'm not saying their isn't some larceny going on every now and again....I just don't think it's nearly at the level most other people seem to think.