Discussion question for the group

[borczon]

There was an interesting article recently in DRF which had Steven Crist taking on the question of whether a player should focus on multi-race gimmicks (DD, P3, P4) or single race gimmicks (Ex, Tri, Super).  His conclusion was basically that it depends on your style of play, which I\'m sure is true enough.  However, in thinking about this a bit more, it strikes me that many serious players I know concentrate on the multi-race gimmicks, while whenever I look around the track or notice what people are betting next to me the more amateur-type players seem to be playing only the single-race gimmicks.  Think about it, is the casual player going to go through the trouble of handicapping 3 or 4 races at a time, getting changes, structuring a bet, etc...?  Personally I love the pick 3\'s and pick 4\'s, but for the reasons above it seems to me there is more of an edge available in the exacta, tri and super.  Curious as to how other TG users feel about this dilemma.

marc

[Peter Beasley]

I think you should take value as it presents itself --- either single or multi can be a great situation, and either can be horrible.

The main difference I see in the 2 is that multi adds more risk --- more chances of some random event hurting your ticket, while single allows you to make use of long priced value horses that aren\'t good enough to win.

[nunzio]

I have pretty strong feelings on this subjest.  I beleive that it is much easier to beat a race than 3 or 4 races.  It is also easier to isolate one horse in any given race than to isolate several horses in the same race.  Going back to the infamous
BEL DAY contest, I played two horses to win invseperate races & split my mythical 1000.00 bets equally on each of them.
Many folks did much more in the way of
spohisticated wagering that obviously took alot more thought to arrive at their decisions.  I\'m not saying I don\'t play exactas and the like but I always play at least 2/3 of my wager on ONE horse.
It works for me and keeps me focussed on finding value and prevents me from too many
\"use lightly in exotics\" scenarios.

Nunzio