My wife let me out of the House on Million Day (my birthday\'s here) but the notice came too late to print out sheets at work.
Only simulcast books available instead of full sheets for Maryland\'s 3rd biggest day of racing all year. So I bought Ragozin. There were a few pretty improbable outcomes, though Len actually mentioned the jump-up winner of the turf. I didn\'t read, natually, and lost a big bet on the pick-4. Fairly bad losing day.
I quickly redboarded and TG seemed generally better, particularly with the winner of the Classic, who had a nice looking line on your product.
The sting from the loss took a little out of my sails after a spectacular evening at CT -- using TG -- the prior Saturday, when a bachelor outing got me out there. The sheets gave me a 23-1 winner in the feature and I spread enough to have half of a $4,700 trifecta. Late pick-4 for $1.50 (yes, they have $.50 P4s) paid another $1,400 or so.
I had been redboarding CT and still am and it seems while you have good days and bad days, on balance, the sheets can really help, though there\'s still a bunch of random outcomes and too many ouchy horses
And unless it\'s Saturday night, the pools are simply too small.
Jerry, curious how many people you think play CT off sheets.
Very few sales for CT, I don\'t think we sell it in any hardcopy simulcast editions either, not sure. Right about the pools.
Are you saying we did not have full Laurel sheets at Laurel?
Len mentions everyone in races he discusses, and usually mentions several positively.
You did not have full sheets at LRL. I arrived 30 minutes before first post.
MD racing is so bad that most people have given up, so maybe your on-track sales have fallen off. But they can put together a decent card on Saturdays in the fall.
Don\'t know what sales are but they have nothing to do with us sending full sheets. Have you gotten them there before?
Sure, but it has been a while. My point was that the racing product at LRL is so bad that people probably prefer the simulcast books, which are a good deal. But on Million Day and maybe Saturdays, it might be good to sell a couple of full sheet sets. That\'s all.
Meanwhile, I\'m going to keep redboarding CT.
TGJB
You haven\'t had full sheets at Laurel for about a year because when you added Laurel to the early simulcast books Cookie sells, it made no sense to pay $25 for a stand alone track which now came in the Thoroquick book of 4 or 5 tracks for $40. .
They do a decent TGH business on the weekends but strangely enough Rags outsells TGH by multiples at Laurel and Pimlico. I have been buying simulcast books at Laurel for years which are always available but Rags stuff sells out most days. It makes no sense at all to me as the products are so different. Seems some guys pass on a Kleenex to blow their nose if they were raised on cheaper tissues 30 years ago.