Anybody See the 6th at Laurel Today?

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

As Mr. Eloquence said earlier in the thread - "there are no trips in slow races" .. or something like that.

If racing consisted of a time trail format, this would be true. However, racing, as presently contested, is all about MATCHUPS. It's about which horse has an advantage given the way the race figures to be run. As such, FAST really doesn't figure into it as much as some would think AND, it follows, that trips have pretty much nothing to do with FAST (excepting the very obvious cases of fast/slow fractions.) Of course, I'm referring to how a horse ran in terms of the setup of the race NOT how many times it steadied going around the track.

Mr Eloquence is also on record as insisting that horses don't like to run inside. Yet another track/handicapping truism that's just wrong yet continues to be thrown around by even those who really should know better.

This really isn't the proper way to 'educate' those new to the game.