Morning line for Hollywood

[jballscalls]

Originally Posted by banter

Once again, late Saturday afternoon ET, I find myself waiting to download pp's for Hollywood Park... and waiting... and waiting... because I want pp's with a morning line. That info helps me to determine probable value at betting time.

Can't wait any longer. Saturday nights are for having fun, and Sunday mornings are for repenting, so who knows when or if I'll have time to handicap the Starlet card. And without 'capping the races, I sure won't bet them.

Equibase doesn't have the morning line odds even on its "Entries" link.

Dang.

With all due respect to the track handicapper (is that John White or someone else?), can't race fans get southern Cal pp's with a m/l at least a day in advance? All the other tracks have their pp's ready to go for tomorrow, and most of them are ready through the 23rd.

my guess would be if they were struggling for entries, it may have taken quite a long time to close and make the card official, thus putting the M/L guy behind the ball already.

are they still just on a 48 hour entry schedule?

[banter]

That makes some sense, JBalls, except that the pp's are up--just w/o the line. Obviously entries are in.

I wouldn't mind 'capping all the entries, even the might-runs. It's SOP to handicap a day or two before and check the scratch list the morning of.