I experienced a recent reminder that among things currently challenging our game is the lack of devotion shown it by our youth. I think this is in part, as many would agree, due to the faster paced and \"easier\" ways to engage entertainment dollars in a text message, ring tone, ecstasy consuming world, one in which horse racing might sound like crocheting; definitely outdated, add pricey, time consuming, and irrelevant.
If you are in Cambridge currently, wondering where to go in the City for the week end, here\'s a thought that isn\'t popular but will bear scrutiny.
As a member of this board, I think under the handle of Silver Charm stated, the Leverage in this Game, is the player\'s ability to not bet, not even ante, until he/she considers themselves to be in possession of HOLE CARDS. Marketing Majors will recognize that it is in the perceived interest of authors, commentators, track management, etc., to describe this game in ways that lead you to believe other than that, while paying it lip service.
The biggest scores in this game, for a racing fan, occur in a manner akin to Discovery of the Obvious. If you like watching horses race, start an objective evaluation of this game, one that rewards successful speculation, while grinding gamblers to dust with a huge take, and about which there is much confusion, which can work for you, should you be patient and persistent; but you have to love it or you won\'t pay enough - attention - to see what could be obvious.
It can be that simple.
Sunday at Belmont would be a great day to see for yourself.
Mastering the Obvious is great sport.
skip
(you are free to send grammar for grandfather messages to me here,
but I will say in my defense that racetrack parlance over uses the
present tense, we are very now oriented)
Stillinger,
There are HOLE CARDS and there is money burning a HOLE-IN-YOUR-Pocket. I have been laying low for a couple of weeks and I am in the later category now. There is some good racing this weekend.
In the era of instant gratification as you say, racing has no freakin shot as the game continues to slow down. Pace, Position and Class are being eliminated from the game.
Better start betting now before we move into the era in 2008 of The-Two-Minute Breeders Cup Mile. Or the Six Furlong Breeders Cup Walk.
Silver Charm Wrote:
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> Stillinger,
>
> There are HOLE CARDS and there is money burning a
> HOLE-IN-YOUR-Pocket. I have been laying low for a
> couple of weeks and I am in the later category
> now. There is some good racing this weekend.
>
> In the era of instant gratification as you say,
> racing has no freakin shot as the game continues
> to slow down. Pace, Position and Class are being
> eliminated from the game.
>
> Better start betting now before we move into the
> era in 2008 of The-Two-Minute Breeders Cup Mile.
> Or the Six Furlong Breeders Cup Walk.
Go East, young man, stay in the east.
A consumer\'s last stand, we could call it. LA turf is OK.
You know my stand on SPEED. But, there is still time.
Be a fun week end, no doubt about it. No matter what.
We have time in the East for a counter study, a recall of the madness.
On the other hand, if we lose more wars, or start more nonsensical ones,
we will be playing for play money anyway.
Does Baghdad Downs race on Synthetic?
Maybe that is why there was such a rush to go over there.......
Silver Charm Wrote:
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> Does Baghdad Downs race on Synthetic?
>
> Maybe that is why there was such a rush to go over
> there.......
I did assume there was some cross over between KEE sales
and KY\'s move to synthetic surfaces. I mean, if you had
ONE or TWO customers, BIG ones, what would you do?
My hope is that the Skeikh has a certain need for speed like
the rest of us, consequently lending his influence to keeping
a fast track around. You never know. If I owned Discreet Cat
and Bernardini and and Henny Hughes were in the family, I wouldn\'t
want a POLY world.
(I remember the look on my wife\'s face last year when
I mentioned I thought a four horse chalk win parlay across a week end at
Saratoga was a grand idea, starting with a Discreet Cat - made \'em watch
the reruns, frame by frame from the gate, I did - not for everyone, but it was obvious)