Keeneland?

[pmayjr]

Bellamy,
Thanks for the offer. Usually the entry fee to these contests is $100. I think for both the Keeneland and Hoosier contetsts, they're $100. You're mking mythical wagers, so the $100 goes straight to the prize pool. With my travelling expenses tacked on, I try to keep the trips around $400, but that's what I love doing, so it doesn't bother me much.

The only time any contest gets much more expensive than $100 is if it's a big-time contest for the high-rollers, or if the wagers you are using aren't mythical. My home track, Canterbury, in suburban Minneapolis, makes you use real money in a lot of their contests. So it's will be entry fee+bankroll to get in.

But yeah... I love the $$$, I love the competition involved with these, but more than anything else- I'm tryin to qualify for the big DRF contest in Vegas in January for the big big $$$. The Horse Player World Series (also held in Vegas) would be a nice thing to qualify for too. I've been agonizingly close to qualifying, but haven't quite made it. But these contests also fit my betting style. I love betting longshots, so I'm a boom or bust player. I'm either gonna win the thing or finish last lol.

hit me up at pmayjr@yahoo.com if you're ever coming through. Otherwise I'll hit you up in early December when it becomes Keeneland contest time. Lata
-Pete

[skippy3481]

Come on man hoosier park sucks. Besides being a a basic ghetto, the class of people there on a typical night is absolutely horrific. You got a good view of it because they cleaned it up for the contest and it was a big day. Indiana downs is 3 times nicer and there is never anyone there. That being said, both tracks play really really wierd depending on the weather so if you don't follow them really closely, you are in for a rough night. Indiana downs is def the place to bet horses in indy. There is an OTB that is actually in downtown but it reeks of smoke and you get a great deal of bums. I think there are 3 or 4 other OTbs in the state, but i can't vouch for those as I haven't been.

[pmayjr]

Skippy,
Interesting insight. Yeah maybe they did just clean it up when I was there, but the place is farly new, so they had me fooled. Beyond doing the contest there, I don't forsee myself being in Indianapolis for anything else. Either way, it looks a lot better than tacky ****in Turfway. That place is a dump (but it doesn't mean I don't like betting it lol).

I think you're right about the unpredicitability of the races there. They offer good-sized, and usually wide-open on paper races. But I never seem to do well betting the place. Indiana Downs on the other hand... I've hit soem monsters there, both T-Bred and Quarter Horse races.

they do hold some qualifying contests, where you are can actually compete online, there are only a few throughout the year...I'll try to find the website

[skippy3481]

Indiana downs usually has very dumb money in its pools. Very few serious handicapppers follow it, so if you can find an angle or a barn that is hot, you can make a great deal of money. Hoosier downs is semi-new and the building outside is beautiful. I guess my problems come with the people in it. They have zero security to keep the idiots out. Next time your in Indy give indiana downs a shot. Or let me know me know i we can grab dinner and hit the track. It really is beautiful inside.

[pmayjr]

Thanks for the offer Skippy. The first weekend in July I might have to take you up on it hehe. Bellamy, I'm only interested in their July DRF qualifyer.