Mike Battaglia -- odds maker

Originally Posted by Dunbar

I might be missing something, but this seemed totally uncalled for.

--Dunbar

Yes you have missed stuff. I have no problem with Mike Battaglia. Its the incessant compulsiveness about family heritage in horses and people via Cunningham.

I think making lines is very interesting. Battaglia is one of the few guys that actually attempts to make his odds lines realistic by making them add up to 1, or the whole (sometimes). You never see this sort of thing from phony lines like equibase.

They rarely ever give a horse odds of over 20-1 or odds lower than 8/5 at smaller tracks, so they are basically horribly unrealistic and of no value. Just a waste of space and time.