Belmont Entries for 5/29.... Very Poor

[philcski]

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

It's not just that they're running a lot of maiden races or the same horses seem to be running all the time. It's more about the lack of quality in these maiden fields. By this I mean, for the most part, that there are some very bad horses running. I bet a lot of cheap tracks (relatively) so it's not about quality for me. What it's about is whether there are horses in a given race that have ABILITY. Too often at NYRA, presently, these maiden fields resemble the maiden fields of the AQU INNER --- there's no form to go by (other than NUMBERS --- for horses that are getting gapped.) It's about competition within races not about field size or quality of field.

Moreover, NYRA isn't the only track that has a limited pool of horses to deal with. So, it's common to see the same horses over and over. Yet other racing secretaries seem to find ways of keeping these races both interesting and competitive, and, more importantly, BETABLE. What they do is switch up on the distances. So, for example, over at CRC, you have the same plugs squaring off every 7-10 days but one week they're sprinting over 5.5F, next time they're going 7F, then 6F, then 6.5F or any combination of these. Campo still thinks he's under AQU INNER constraints and that 'SPRINT' means '6F'.

Most of the races presently at NYRA are just not betable.

1000% agree with this... not every race is the Kentucky Derby, nor can it be, and it doesn't have to be. A balanced field of 10 $20k Claimers is very bettable and interesting to me. They aren't running these type of races anymore. They've been replaced by N2L's going 6F on the turf, which quite frankly are not interesting to me or most others.

('bettable' has two 't's' though i think)