Smaller race tracks and Thorograph figures

[Holy55]

Hi guys I just recently found this web site, but I\'m very interested in the figures that JB and company create.
While I play the higher class races occasionally (once or twice a week) my main focus is on the cheaper tracks like Penn National and Charlestown. (Been following Penn since 94\' and Charlestown since 00\')

The typical reaction to me telling people that those are the tracks that I make most of my profits at is \"Why would you play those cheap horses!\".. I think there are two reasons I choose those tracks, 1. because they are at night and I can watch and wager on every single race while only giving up some sleep 2. I\'ve followed those 2 tracks so closely that I have an excellent feel for the class of the tracks and the trainer patterns which is huge.

Any way, the point of this post is to ask JB, do you make figures for those tracks and are they as accurate as figures made for higher level tracks.

[TGJB]

You have to ask this when things are crazy, Belmont week?

Short answer-- we have \"live\" ground--an observer-- for Pen, not CT, but the computer ground (very complicated) is pretty accurate-- we have checked it against a bunch of live races. We do figures for those tracks the same way we do the majors, except I\'m not the one who does them-- Paul, Nick and Greg do them, and between them they have (top of my head) maybe 30 years of experience doing at least 3 tracks a year. I\'m egotistical enough to think they are not as good as I am, but I would bet anything that our figures for those smaller tracks are a lot better than anyone else\'s.

[Holy55]

Thanks JB for taking the time to answer my question, sorry if I asked at a bad time, I was just curious and new to this site as I said.