THANK GOD: KEENELAND racing is BACK

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by pick4

The only thing I disagree with the original posters remarks is his 5th point of Keeneland having a fair racing surface. They went from a front running bias to a back of the pack closers bias.

For the typical SPEED oriented player this is an anomaly. Horses wiring the field as the way things should be is both counterintuitive and contrary to natural laws. In any reasonably related event, cycling, for example, for someone to wire the field, they need to be MUCH BETTER than the field. The same is true on fair turf courses and poly (excepting the mess out at SA for those early few weeks).
Horses that have had the advantage of drafting will have a better chance to win. More moves in a race means that the race has a higher likelyhood of falling apart. Do away with the wide-without-cover trip, that most US jockeys think is just fine, and you actually have competitive YET fair races. What you guys think is an unfair closers 'bias' is actually just about the fairest racing there is out there. And not remotely related to the 'bias' at AQU this winter (or that at KEE before poly).