Ok so for those who support dime supers on Derby Day I propose this thought which could also be listed as fact without question.
Derby Day gets more then enough money in the pools, all of them including the super and all of us know this. Derby Day is also amatuer day when you get a ton, a ton, of people who only bet one day a year. The lines are long at every cotton pickin teller line from coast to coast and God knows this. Tellers get all kinds walking up saying give me $2 across on Funny Cide, etc etc.. Let me get to my point..................
Dime supers are fine thru the year but on traditional days like the Derby they have no place. Not when you have all the money pumping in from across the world on the single biggest day of the year in racing. Tradition has taken a step back in a lot of areas in this business (see polytrack) but for crying out loud let Derby Day be what it is, a day when a bunch of people bet their horse(s) across the board, etc etc but please the LAST thing that needs to be implemeted is dime supers.
Its bad enough on a Saturday in January, and it sure as hell has no place on the 1st Saturday in May. If you can't afford to box 4 horses in a super on May 3rd for a $1 maybe you should reconsider your gambling budget because May 3rd does not need several thousand people trying to box Big Brown, Monba, Smooth Air and Pyro at 5:45pm for a dime.
Some things are better left alone, and Derby Day is one of them.
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