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Originally Posted by todko
New York racing is among the finest in the nation. Delaware Park has some good races and is a fair track to play. I have nothing against East Coast racing. I routinely bet Delaware and Colonial. Belmont also.
What bothers me is the bias of the press, notably the DRF. The written press seems biased to the east while the television press (TVG, HRTV) are biased to the west coast. It's tough to see a big race on hold while TVG shows the post parade at Fairplex.
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Quite frankly I don't see a bias at all, on either front.
I think that its obvious that TVG is based on the West Coast, thats where the station is and their employees as well. You can't just put some guys on a plane each day to go and do Delaware Park.
As far as the DRF goes, I don't see it. You have Hovdey, Free, and Privman covering from out there, and plenty of coverage.
Hovdey's columns are consistently about Cali racing and its figures only. Whatever.
I haven't seen any bias in handing out year end votes, none at all. Last year Artie lost a tight vote to a horse who started his campaign in Cali. If there was going to be a bias, I'd think Artie would have won the award. LITF got the sprint award easily, despite never beating elders and only winning one grade one. No bias there either.
I guess maybe people there think horses like Lava Man and RHT don't get enough credit, so they blame it on a bias. Look, thats nonsense as well, complete nonsense. This may shock you, but our standard DRF edition always carries the Cali tracks and their pp's, and we get to watch it on Tv everyday. So its not like noone sees whats going on.
The fact is that horses like RHT and Lava run in the same place against the same horses all year long, who aren't very good horses. They only meet East Coast horses on their home grounds(something that anyone with a brain has been able to see gives a heavy advantage to Cali horses, just look at the results of the BC dirt races run out there over the years, how did Brocco, Success Express, and Action This Day make out after the BC? Come to think of it, SKYWALKER????????).
Noone can honestly get overly excited about watching the same horse sbeat up on the same rivals like Magnum and in RHT's case Imperialism over and over again.
They get all credit they ever deserve when they ship and win against good horses. Look at Azeri.
We know the people awards are always based on earnings, maybe they shouldnt be but its really always been that way.
Show me some proof or examples of this bias, cause all I ever hear is incessant whining about it with no specific intelligent examples cited.