ROTW

[miff]

WO mostly plays typical poly,rewards phony wides,punishes brilliant speed,garbage!

[Rich Curtis]

Dana,

  Do you really think that when you write this:

 \"As far as Check Your Soul my comment was right on: \'he will have to rally wide in a huge field at a mile and a quarter -- boy that\'s tough sledding on polytrack for all but a superhorse.\'\"

 ...that it is out of line for me to point out that the winner made a wide rally in a huge field at a mile and a quarter?

   That\'s all I did, and I did it as gently as I know how.

[TGJB]

\"Jimbo is Jerry\'s boy\". My first interaction with Jimbo resulted in my offering to and almost having to fight (literally) a guy who turned out to be built like a 6\'6 refrigerator. Since then he has gone after me for my Euro figures, my Cal figures, and recently said I always think I\'m right, just to hit the highlights. Not exactly sure where you got that one.

Ain\'t too many on this board who haven\'t thrown a grenade my way at some point.

[TGJB]

Dana-- this is one of those doing-the-same-thing-over-and-over-expecting-a-different-result things. You keep on analyzing these races in non-sheet terms, and keep on telling us how great the favorite is (which the exception of Buster\'s Ready in the BES). What\'s the point? This is a Thoro-Graph site, and the idea here is that we\'re trying to BEAT the public, using a different type of analysis-- not using conventional analysis to come up with the same horse they do.

[jimbo66]

P-Stub,

I have to tell you, just when I convince myself that there is no possible way I can beat this game, I read one of your many inane posts and it reminds that as long as there are people like you in the parimutuel pool, the game can be beat.

Thanks for providing me with that inspiration?

By any chance are you in the stock market as well?

[alm]

The TG analysis on this race was a good job, not a great job...I handicapped the handicapper and decided the filly couldn\'t lose...turned out to be right, but went vertical and didn\'t come close to the place or show horse, based upon the analysis.

No matter...my real question is how long has the Queens Plate been on poly?  So many horses have swept the so-called Triple Crown in Canada that, surely, the switch from poly to dirt in the next couple of races can\'t be too significant.

I would guess the real issue is when a good one comes along in Canada, he or she can beat all the other slow plugs on any surface.  I mean for Bowman\'s Causeway to finish 4th after stinking up slow fields in Gulfstream...that tells you everything.

[hotspringskid]

I would definitely say she is a horse for the course. I bet her to win and totally missed my vertical bet too. I could handicap that race twenty more times and still not come up with that second place horse. By the way, the trainer said the dirt was stinging her feet in her last dirt race. I\'ve never heard that before, but that may definitely make her a vulnerable favorite if she goes in the second leg of the triple crown.

[P-Dub]

P-Stub.

Jimbo, you can do better than that.