Who on earth thought it was a good idea to put the Beldame in the middle of the Pick 4 and the Flower Bowl outside the interesting horizontal exotics? Sheesh
In my view, if the Flower Bowl and the Beldame were flip flopped, the pick 4 would be an awesome sequence. With the Beldame right in the middle, it stinks. I see the problem of the Beldame for the horizontals being that HDG is extremely likely at low odds, and even if you want to throw her out, how can you not go to the heavy second choice. That is going to wreck any meaningful way to play the Pick 4 (the Kelso only has 4 horses, but I like Uncle Mo least of the field, so it could help the Pick 4 some).
If there were a big pick 6 carryover or Pick 6 guarantee, this idiotic decision would look even more stark. Given the MTO\'s coming in the switched off the turf finale, the pick 6 is basically a pick 4 with HDG and the Schosberg MTO being singles.
Am I off in right field? How on earth did they decide the sequence of races in this card.
