Weekend Beyers..

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

Think of all the SLOW horses on rubber that turn out to be FAST on dirt.

Yeah, very fast for a race ... or sometimes two ... before they typically fall off the face of the planet.

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

2) we IGNORE figures and get to bet on what we handicap and enjoy FAIR racing

I'm still showing a flat bet profit with my top selection at PID for the 2nd year in a row.

I can promise you that making figures is more important there than at any track I've ever seen before ... and the racing is often anything but "fair"

There have been no-brainer severe dead rails in 2008 that have lasted each racing day for several weeks. There have been no-brainer gold rails at this meet - that have lasted for as many as 9 or 10 racing days at a time.

There have been EXTREME speed biases that have occured for several day stretches over each of the three meetings.

I've got trip notes for every single day of Saratoga this meet. I don't have a single day - not one - where either a pro speed or anti speed bias occured.

I only have a path bias for one day .. on Aug 22nd I have a very lukewarm "rail didn't seem like the best place to be all day"

To bet a track like PID while ignoring figures and bias would be outright suicide. Those are by far and away the two dominant factors for that track imo.