Leading Trainer / Jockey 2 weeks to go

[the_fat_man]

To her defense, as long as I've been back in the game (4 or 5 years now), Rice seems to do very well with turf sprinters, so if she had an UNFAIR advantage, I'd think that the others would've gotten some of it by now.

Maybe Rice is just good at this. When others generally aren't. Strange as this may sound in a sport fraught with cheats, maybe she just has a knack for these races.

What makes this particularly noteworthy is that just about every handicapper does poorly at turf sprints. I remember reading last year on his blog that Crist was going to put in extra time looking at these races to see if he could improve with them. I also know Serling doesn't particularly consider them a strength, though he's improved significantly at them.

If these guys can't get an advantage, what hope is there for the rest of us?