Personally, I'm a big proponent of fractional wagering; it can allow you to spread with a longshot that you might not want to invest the "full" amount on, and as Steve Crist has pointed out on several occasions, given the current IRS withholding structure, it's often better to hit these wagers in fractional amounts.
When there are only a few thousand people at the track on a daily basis, no one that really wants to get a bet in is going to get shut out by some "novice" taking a long time at the windows/machines. (That being said, on a day like Derby Day, I can see why some sort of modification might be necessary, but not banning the .10 super altogther.)
This raises another pet peeve of mine with NYRA. This past weekend I was at Keeneland, which offers a .50 pic-4 wager. NYRA takes the pic-4 wager from Keeneland, and I attempted to make a .50 pic-4 wager through my NYRA One account but was told that I had to bet a $1 ticket through their system. NYRA used to do the same thing with the dime super at other tracks until NYRA adopted the bet. This is an absurd policy, especially when the fractional wagers can be placed at OTB and simulcast locations. All NYRA did in this case was cost themselves $$ because I placed the desired wager on track at Keeneland rather than utilizing my NYRA phone account for that particular wager.
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