Kentucky racing

[pmayjr]

I love Turfway... just for the fact of the crap that races there. I'm a longshot bettor, and longshots pop with crappier, more inconsistent horses (at least from my own personal success) than with nice horses. That's probably I win a lot more $$$ playing Mountaineer than a NY track lol. I've still done pretty good there (at least last year. and earlier this year) with the polytrack bein in there.

But I'm not sure I like this polytrack stuff either. Playing a wet track is where I get some of my best results. I don't always want a fast track, because betting "off" track conditions can be a great angle to make $$$ on. Turfway takes this angle out of play unfortunately (and Keeneland now too... damn).

But guys, remember this- The reason I think Polytrack was ultimately installed at Turfway, was due to 2 or 3 years ago. The track had gotten battered by repeated winter storms. And I think those storms beat up the main track so bad, that they didn't race for literally a week or two. They weren't racing for at least a week. Someone wanna give official clarification of how long it was please?

So what I'm getting at- to us bettors it definately does suck. But I think this ultimately was put in to both safety of horses and riders. I'm willing to believe that this is their true motivation for installing it... not to screw the bettors.

BTW, welcome to the board Repent. Where've you been? How's life?