Arlington Poly opens Wednesday morning
 

I might be getting up early and cruising over there, check this new shindig out. ON ANOTHER note, Arlington is adding two new wagers and a change

1) Pick Four CARRYOVER pools if no one has 4 of 4

2) 50k Guaranteed Pick Six on Saturdays, if no one hits it, it carrys to the following Saturday

3) JOCKEY CHALLENGE. Pari-mutuel pool on 5 specific days where you can bet on a jockey and who has the greatest mutual payouts for WPS.

I am a huge fan of 1 and 2, could care less about 3.

PICK SIX for Arlington, oh man.....

http://www.arlingtonpark.com/news/tr...ws_042307.html

trackside will never be the same.....

Trackside is the OTB, I should go over there during an Arlington race so all of DT can see me on the far turn as you can sit the rail their, pretty cool experience

I absolutely LOVE the pick six idea for Arlington. At least they are smart about it and not try and offer it during the week when all the old people are there betting 10 cent supers to kill time.

I have heard whispers that they are expecting big things because of this polycrap.

I could care less what they are running on, give me a tote board, some cash, and an amtote and I am ready to rock and roll

I bet when you were a kid...and your Mom read you the tale about the race between the Tortoise and the Hare....you asked her for odds, didn't you??

Bringing the Pick 6 back at AP is good since they did rid of it when Steve Sexton was president. Only having it on Saturday is good. They may expand to Sunday later in the season. We won't see a 1 million carryover.

Scav-

I checked it out last weekend. We'll see how it goes. Personally, I think way too may tracks have rushed into it (i.e. ALL the SoCal tracks) but Turfway needed to do something and Arlington had TONS of negative publicity last year w/the breakdowns. The local media was relentless in pounding them over it.

I do think they will get some more KY shippers as there's going to be a load of horses who ran well over the Poly at Kee and TP so look for bigger field sizes. Arlington has always been one of the more closer-friendly tracks so this will be nothing like the Keeneland transformation.

I actually walked right on it the other day on the backstretch when they were finishing up, it is sticky as hell, that PAM thing that Chuck was talking about is perfect. I grabbed a handful and had to wash my hands to get what felt like grease off.

I believe that Pletcher is going to have a string there this year because he dropped a string on the east coast, but I could be wrong

Easy Nick the Kid, EASY!!!

Is the Arlington faithful getting the cowboy hat opening day?

While I am pissed about losing everything I know about Arlington since I was 12 (16 years of Arlington) I think this is a great thing for us Arlington players and think it could put Arlington back into the major player scene, like it was way back in the day. All we need is the horses because we have the greatest facility built in the US, arguably the greatest turf course, and the atmosphere to explode.

Trying to piss Kev off, according to him Colonial has the best turf course :D :D

He is off his rocker, it is nice, and I love how they card all turf races, but he is smoking too much wacky to think it is better then the Duchessois approved lawn

This site that my friend show me a couple of years back

http://www.tlorehorses.com/trainers/...abbr&order=asc

the site hasn't been loading correctly lately, so highlight everything
to see it

bite your tounge Kevin....bite your tounge.

Besides...I am very partial towards the Belmont grass too.

Laurel has a very nice turf course also

The class of racing is obviously lacking at AP, but the facility and the turf course are pretty much unmatched by any facility in the country.

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