Thoroughbred Racing

[Homebrewer]

1 hour ago, Adam said:

I won a DRF contest and got to tell my bad beat story on the podcast.

http://www.drf.com/blogs/drf-players-podcast-june-21-2016

 

My segment begins at the 43:30 mark

Good story Adam..I've been victim of inquiries so often that I've become numb to it. I NEVER expect an inquiry to go my way, because 95% of my experiences have been like yours that day.

Never went out to find a flat afterwards...but am very familiar with that back way into Los Al. (I assume they have improved the old parking areas since the upgrade there?)  

[Adam]

upgrade? lol

 

They lengthened the track to support a TB meet. They did not other upgrades. lol

[gotbeer]

56 minutes ago, Homebrewer said:

Sheesh...reminds me of Scott Stevens (Gary's brother) quite a few years ago..I think it was at the Fair, I was at Los Al watching and wagering at the bar there....

He was maybe 15 lengths out in front, all by himself..with a horse that was going to make my night...and he freakin fell off.

Just fell off.

I've seen horses jump shadows and fall,  crash though the rail, stop completely, veer left and right, all kinds of weird shit...but that's the only time I can remember seeing a jock fall of a horse that was running perfectly straight and in a clear lead. 

I think I remember when Joe Talamo was out here.  Had a clear winner.  And about 20 yards from the finish, his foot slipped out of the sturrups.  He was hanging on for dear life on the horses neck as they crossed the finish line. 

[Homebrewer]

22 minutes ago, Adam said:

upgrade? lol

 

They lengthened the track to support a TB meet. They did not other upgrades. lol

That's too bad. I thought they might have fixed the place up after HP closed.

Los Al was a dump when I was going there regularly, so it must be even worse now.

Sorry to hear that.

[Homebrewer]

11 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

I think I remember when Joe Talamo was out here.  Had a clear winner.  And about 20 yards from the finish, his foot slipped out of the sturrups.  He was hanging on for dear life on the horses neck as they crossed the finish line. 

Here's your race GB...just set the date and race #... It almost looked like the filly tangled up her own back legs and slid into the rail.

https://www.nyra.com/belmont/videos/race-replay/

[gotbeer]

Just now, Homebrewer said:

Here's your race GB...just set the date and race #... It almost looked like the filly tangled up her own back legs and slid into the rail.

https://www.nyra.com/belmont/videos/race-replay/

Thanks.  Watch the head on.  It was clear as day what happened.  The jockey whipped her hard, and she just shied away from it into the rail.

[Homebrewer]

1 minute ago, gotbeer said:

Thanks.  Watch the head on.  It was clear as day what happened.  The jockey whipped her hard, and she just shied away from it into the rail.

I just did... and you're right. It's much more clear in the head on. One good crack and she headed left. Tore into the rail pretty good. I hope he learned a lesson there.

 

[gotbeer]

Imagine if you were alive to that horse, in a pick 4 or pick 6 and then that happens.  lol.  Talk about a devastating way to get knocked out. 

I'm just glad the horse got back up. 

[Adam]

I bet $2 on a 99-1 shot at Louisiana Downs years ago. He opened up a 20 length lead and the jockey put a chokehold on him in the stretch. Nipped at the wire.

 

Racing is so shady

[Homebrewer]

1 hour ago, Adam said:

I bet $2 on a 99-1 shot at Louisiana Downs years ago. He opened up a 20 length lead and the jockey put a chokehold on him in the stretch. Nipped at the wire.

 

Racing is so shady

Thanks Huey Long..(or any other of the long list of crooked La politicos)

[Homebrewer]

(excerpts from a very long article)

 

Baze Calls It A Career

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June 22, 2016 | By Jon White

Russell Baze took the racing world by surprise last week when he announced his career as a jockey was over. But the low-key fashion in which the Hall of Fame rider made his retirement known was pretty much in keeping with the way he has conducted himself throughout his remarkable career.

“He’s so humble,” Ray Harris, Baze’s longtime agent, said last Sunday to Mike Willman on the radio program “Thoroughbred Los Angeles.” With Baze, “it’s always been about the horses, not him.”

And so it was that Baze did not want a big fuss made regarding his retirement. He wanted to do it his way, which was to show up for work, ride for the final time, go home and then let the world know he was done as a jockey. And that was exactly how he did it.

But Baze pretty much has been doing it his way ever since he began his riding career. His way was to go out and give it his all, race after race, day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year. His way was to give it his all whether he was riding in a bottom-level claiming race or a graded stakes race. His way was to dedicate himself to his profession and to his family rather than go out and party all night, like many a jockey has been known to do.

Baze did not announce his retirement until after he rode his final race. That was not the case with John Longden. In 1966, Longden, who at the time was the world’s leading jockey in victories, announced ahead of time that his final ride would be on George Royal in the San Juan Capistrano at Santa Anita Park.

 

RODE 400 OR MORE WINNERS IN A YEAR 13 TIMES

In 1999, Baze was honored with a Special Eclipse Award for being the first jockey to win 400 or more races in a year for four consecutive years.

“As it turned out, the award was premature,” Daily Racing Form executive columnist and Hall of Fame writer Jay Hovdey noted last week. “Before he was through he did it nine more times, most recently in 2009, at the age of 51.”

Baze retired as a jockey last week having ridden in a world record 53,578 Thoroughbred races and having won a world-record 12,842 Thoroughbred races. Jorge Ricardo in South America is believed to be about 100 wins behind Baze. Ricardo has said he will never retire until he overtakes Baze. Now that Baze is retired, how does he feel about that?

“More power to him,” Baze was quoted as saying in a Daily Racing Form story written by Chuck Dybdal.

A great many of Baze’s colleagues consider his feat of riding over 50,000 races to be a tremendous achievement in itself.

Fellow Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith has ridden in 32,523 races. He is still going strong at the age of 50. He won both graded stakes races at Santa Anita last weekend, the Grade II Summertime Oaks aboard Songbird and Grade II Honeymoon Stakes on Cheekaboo. Smith, for one, has said it’s mindboggling that Baze has ridden in more than 50,000 races.

Baze rode in his 50,000th Thoroughbred race at Golden Gate on Jan. 25, 2013. He finished third on Finish Rich in Nyc.

“The ironman of Thoroughbred racing,” was how Baze was referred to in Barry Bearak’s outstanding in-depth 2013 feature story on the rider that appeared in the New York Times.

When Baze rode his 50,000th Thoroughbred race, many regarded it as a big deal. Not Baze. He called it “just another day at the office.”

REGULAR RIDER OF CHAMPION LOST IN THE FOG

Baze will forever be associated with the marvelous sprinter Lost in the Fog. Baze rode the fast colt in 10 of his 11 career wins. Lost in the Fog was voted a 2005 Eclipse Award as champion sprinter. Sadly, Lost in the Fog died of cancer in 2006.

It looked like Baze had a good chance to win the 1998 Kentucky Derby with Event of the Year. That colt was going to take a four-for-four career record into the Run for the Roses, with Baze aboard for each of those four victories. However, Event of the Year was not able to run in the Kentucky Derby because of a knee injury sustained eight days before the race.

When Hawkster ran a freakish race and broke the 1 1/2-mile world record in
the 1989 Oak Tree Invitational, Baze was the pilot. Baze had picked up the mount as a replacement for Patrick Valenzuela. When Hawkster opened a big early lead, nearly everyone felt he couldn’t possibly then win such a long race. Hawkster reached the finish line the first time, with a lap to go, leading by seven lengths. He was nine in front with a half-mile left to run. But win he did, by four lengths, completing the 1 1/2 miles in 2:22 4/5.

Baze rode champion Shared Belief in one of his races. Shared Belief was voted a 2013 Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old male. In Shared Belief’s first start at 3, he won a six-furlong allowance race at Golden Gate by 4 1/4 lengths with Baze in the saddle. Baze also was aboard Shared Belief in a number of morning workouts at that track.

Great Communicator, Simply Majestic and Super Moment also have been named by Baze as some of the best horses he ever rode.

Baze won the most important race in the Pacific Northwest, the Longacres Mile, three times. He won it in 1988 on Simply Majestic, in 2003 on Sky Jack and in 2004 on Adreamisborn. Sky Jack ran one mile at Emerald Downs near Seattle in 1:33 to equal the state record set by Slew of Damascus in the 1993 Yakima Mile at Yakima Meadows. Courtesy of Sky Jack’s trainer, Doug O’Neill, I have the two front shoes Sky Jack wore the day he won the Longacres Mile beneath Baze.

BAZE AND ICHIRO

Some have knocked Baze for being a big fish in a small pond for his entire career except for when he rode in Southern California for about three years in the late 1980s. A lot of people feel Baze’s huge number of wins is tainted because almost all of them came “in the minor leagues.”

Somewhat similarly, there was a controversy last week when baseball’s Ichiro Suzuki recorded his 4,257th lifetime hit to surpass Pete Rose’s total. However, all 4,256 of Rose’s hits came in this country’s major leagues, while 1,278 of Suzuki’s hits came during the nine years he played in the Japanese league before he started playing in the majors in this country.

“Whether it’s Japan or whether it’s here in America, 3,000 hits are a lot of hits,” Albert Pujols of the Los Angeles Angels was quoted as saying in a Los Angeles Times story written by Bill Shaikin. “It doesn’t matter where you do it.”

It is true that Longden, Shoemaker and Pincay all had a much tougher time winning races at Santa Anita, Hollywood Park and Del Mar than Baze did at the Northern California tracks. But, much like what Pujols said of Ichiro, it’s also true that 12,842 wins as a jockey are a lot of wins, no matter where you do it.

Yes, Baze won 12,842 Thoroughred races. Baze’s truly amazing total is 3,312 more than Pincay, who still ranks second in terms of all-time North American wins.

BAZE’S FIRST WIN CAME IN 1974

In 1974, the average cost of a gallon of gas was 53 cents. A Racing Form cost $1.

In August, as a consequence of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president to resign. Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as the 38th president.

Russell Baze started out as a jockey in 1974 at Walla Walla, a little unsanctioned track in Southeastern Washington. Baze’s father, Joe Baze, also had started out as a jockey at Walla Walla in the 1950s.

Joe Baze had a successful career as a jockey. Among his many accomplishments, he won two riding titles at Longacres near Seattle in 1950s. Probably his finest feat came on a spring day in 1965 when he rode six winners from eight mounts on the April 12 card at Golden Gate. On April 16, 1992, Russell set a Northern California record for most victories on a single card when he won with seven of his nine mounts at Golden Gate.

In the fall of 1974, on Oct. 30, Muhammed Ali regained the world heavyweight title by defeating George Foreman in their fight in Zaire, known as “The Rumble in the Jungle.” Many consider that Ali-Foreman fight to be the greatest sporting event of the 20th century.

Two days before Ali beat Foreman, Russell Baze officially began his career as a jockey at Yakima Meadows, a one-mile track in Central Washington.

Baze’s first official Thoroughbred victory came aboard Oregon Warrior in the sixth race at Yakima Meadows on Oct. 28, 1974. I was there that day. I had begun working for the Daily Racing Form that year.

Oregon Warrior won a six-furlong sprint for $1,250 claimers with a $700 purse by 2 1/2 lengths on a muddy track. He paid $8, $4.10 and $2.50 across the board. The attendance at the track that afternoon was 1,931.

At Santa Anita in 2002, Russell Baze received the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. One of the most coveted awards in all of racing, the Woolf Award, which can only be won once, is presented to a different jockey each year and recognizes those riders whose careers and personal character earn esteem for the individual and the sport of Thoroughbred racing.

When I interviewed Baze between races at Santa Anita that day for the track’s simulcast network, I asked him if he remembered his first win at Yakima Meadows in 1974 on Oregon Warrior.

“I sure do,” he said with a twinkle in his eye. “My dad told me how I should ride the horse. He told me to get him out of the gate as good as I can, then keep him in the clear. So I stayed wide the entire race, even though I was clear and could have moved down to the [inside] rail. After the race, after my dad had seen me win despite pretty much being in the middle of the track the whole race, he said, ‘Son, that wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.’

“My dad sure didn’t think it was too good that I stayed out in the middle of the track the whole race,” Russell said with a chuckle.

That was one thing Bearak got wrong in his New York Times story.

Joe Baze “told his 16-year-old son to keep to the outside,” Bearak wrote. “Just to be sure, Russell steered the animal five wide of the others on both turns.”

A 5 1/2-furlong race at Yakima Meadows was around one turn, not two.

When Russell Baze won his first official Thoroughbred race on a rainy autumn afternoon at Yakima Meadows in 1974, nobody could have possibly known it would be the first of 12,842 victories.

According to Equibase, these are the Top 25 all-time leading North American jockeys in wins through June 21:

Wins---Jockey

12,842 Russell Baze
9,530 Laffit Pincay Jr.
8,833 Bill Shoemaker
8,803 Pat Day
7,396 David Gall
7,141 Chris McCarron
7,057 Angel Cordero Jr.
6,900 Edgar Prado
6,795 Jorge Velasquez
6,727 Mario Pino
6,611 Perry Ouzts
6,470 Earlie Fires
6,450 Sandy Hawley
6,388 Larry Snyder
6,383 Eddie Delahoussaye
6,349 Carl Gambardella
6,032 John Longden
5,894 Jerry Bailey
5,747 Kent Desormeaux
5,536 Terry Houghton
5,529 John Velazquez
5,333 Mike Smith
5,228 Jacinto Vasquez
5,226 Ronald Ardoin
5,222 Mark Guidry
 

[Homebrewer]

5 Horses I Can't Wait to Bet on Gold Cup Day

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June 23, 2016

When I look back at the formula of many of my successful bets, the word ‘discipline’ is often prevalent in the equation. Do my homework, map out a plan, stick to it and (hopefully) cash a few tickets. The wheels come off when I start to improvise, chase or, my personal favorite, handicap on the fly. It just doesn’t work for me. Few Pick 4 sequences can be tamed when you start at 6 minutes to post. So that’s why I try to identify several key horses I really like in advance of each card and build my wagers around them.

Here are five horses I can’t wait to bet Saturday at Santa Anita:

Race 2 - #1 ADIOS PRINCESS
The second at Santa Anita is definitely a lynchpin race for horseplayers – not only is it the kickoff leg of the Early Pick 4, but it’s also the second leg of the Players’ Pick 5, one of the most popular wagers on the circuit. And most people will be betting Angel Lane, but I’m going to go the other direction and back ADIOS PRINCESS. She cuts back in distance from a two-turn, one mile claiming race and seems to be at her best in races like this. She broke her maiden going 5 ½-furlongs here in February and I like that she gets a 7 pound weight break with talented apprentice jockey, Chad Lindsay, in the irons.

Race 6 - #7 TAMAN GUARD
I’m generally hesitant to bet three-year-olds against older horses, but I like the chances of TAMAN GUARD on Saturday. He was 6/5 last out when he got pinned on the inside of a wicked speed duel (21.26, 43.77) going 6 ½-furlongs and, frankly, that’s never a comfortable place to be. He draws outside this go around and even if he faces outside pressure from Family Code, I think Alex Solis has more than a few options to elicit a much improved performance. Make sure he’s on your ticket to start the $500,000 guaranteed Late Pick 4.

Race 7 - #5 TIZ NO BLUFF
TIZ NO BLUFF’s debut here in February could’ve probably gone better. But he hopped at the start, trailed throughout and didn’t make up much ground down the lane in a race that seemed to favor speed from start to finish. On the bright side, he was well backed at the windows that day and it takes a special horse to win at first asking in any race, let alone a route. They’ve had time to regroup with him and they wheel him back in against a field of underachievers, headlined by Bob Baffert’s Westfest (0-for-3, all 3 losses as the favorite) and Pete Eurton’s Giant Expectations (0-for-5, 3 straight defeats at 5/2 or less). These horses aren’t getting the job done late TIZ NO BLUFF is the right horse to try and beat them with.

Race 8 - #6 SUBTLE INDIAN
If you bet SUBTLE INDIAN last out in the Grade 2 Kona Gold Stakes here, you may not have liked when he carved out a grueling 21.58 opening quarter while kicking 5-lengths clear of the field in the opening strides. But you definitely liked the way he locked in down the lane and held off a pair of challengers to his outside before being caught and passed by millionaire Wild Dude in the final strides. I view that as a positive learning experience. Mike Smith is in the irons this time around and SUBTLE INDIAN’s defeat, coupled with the presence of Kobe’s Back and Lord Nelson in the field, may ensure a better price. Sign me up!

Race 9 - #7 MELATONIN
The day’s feature, the Grade 1, $500,000 Gold Cup, is also the ‘get out race.’ For handicappers, the get out race is one of significant importance. Get it right and you walk away from the track with a good taste in your mouth and any bad beats or swings-and-misses from earlier in the day are forgotten. In the Gold Cup, I’m banking on MELATONIN to run a big one. He won the Big Cap here in March and validated that performance with a strong runner-up effort behind Effinex in the Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap in April. He runs well fresh and should inherit a great stalking trip from just outside of Lieutenant Colonel. There isn’t much other early speed in here, so I’m looking for MELATONIN to take over on the turn and hold off the closing kick of Second Summer, Hard Aces, Hoppertunity and Imperative.

 

[Adam]

Gold Cup Day tomorrow.

This is a rare card, in which I'm excited to see a bunch of these races but I'm not too keen to want to play anything. I'll post my write up shortly. I will say that in race 8 I think Subtle Indian is a huge bet against. He does not want 7 furlongs. 

[Adam]

Gold Cup Day Selections

Race 1: This is a pretty competitive maiden claiming race. #7 Uncle Steve's Girl (9-2) drops from MSW to MCL and figures to be a decent price. In multis it would be hard to not use the 3,5,6 as well. 

Race 2: #1 Adios Princess (5-2) cuts back in distance, second off the layoff. #2 Angel Lane (9-5) figures to take a bit more money as she romped last out. I would single to Adios Princess.

Race 3:  #6 Midnight Edition (8-1) comes back after a long layoff for Baffert who might have a huge day. This horse is pretty fast and comes in with really good works. Espinoza up. I doubt that ML holds. #3 Pete's Play Call (3-1) is a lukewarm second choice. The 1,4,5 also look like contenders.

Race 4: #6 Klimt (3-1) is one of many first time starters in here. Another live Baffer horse - a very expensive Quality Road colt. This is a spread or single type spot for sure. I'd roll the dice and single this horse.

Race 5: #3 Forest Blue (4-1) fits right into this competitive field on form and figs. This will be his 2nd off the layoff and he's a 4YO in against mainly 3YOs. BEST BET! Hammer this one. 

Race 6: #8 Family Code (3-1) likes to win. Gets a good post in here and a slight weight advantage. I'd use #7 Taman Guard (9-5) as well.

Race 7: #7 Giant Expectations (9-5) is an 0-5 maiden and there are better prices in here, but I just can't come up with anything else. His figs tower over the group and he's been two turns twice while most of the others are stretching out. 

Race 8: #2 Kobe's back (5-2) isn't a clever pick. He's likely to be favored but he's the best, most accomplished horse in the field. He should get plenty of pace to run into at #4 Lord Nelson (3-1) and #6 Subtle Indian (3-1) figure to go fast early. Lord Nelson is more a GIII type in my mind and Subtle Indian's best distance is 6F. Let it fly on the closer!

Race 9: #7 Melatonin (7-2) is another logical pick. That said, this race is really tough and to get some value I'd hit the ALL button. 

[Homebrewer]

Looking ahead to the BCC...it's going to be a great day as always, but the Classic might be one of the better Classic fields ever assembled.

Another one to consider..

Time for Some Melatonin

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June 29, 2016 | By Brian Nadeau

Time for Some Melatonin

June 29, 2016 by Xpressbet Race Chat host Brian Nadeau

Lost in all the Triple Crown melee, California Chrome’s tour de force in Dubai and Frosted’s epic performance in the Met Mile, the workingman’s horse that gets no respect just keeps on winning and putting together a resume that has him firmly in the Horse of the Year discussion at this point. Yet, if you polled the masses, they might not be able to tell you the only older horse to win a pair of GI dirt races this year. His name, in case you’re wondering, is Melatonin.

Melatonin, a 5-year-old gelding by Kodiak Kowboy, shocked everyone when he forget to stop in the GI Santa Anita Handicap in March, scoring a wire-to-wire upset at 16-1. Sent to Oaklawn Park, he was a solid 2nd to Effinex in the GII Oaklawn Handicap in April, in what was his first start outside California. But it was his win in Saturday’s GI Gold Cup at Santa Anita that really impressed me and gives Melatonin as good a chance as anyone else at Horse of the Year.

While Melatonin ran off and hid over a speedy main track at Santa Anita in the Big Cap, he showed a new dimension in the Gold Cup, when he stalked the early pace of outside Lieutenant Colonel, took over with ease and drew off to an easy 1 ½-length score. Sure, there were no world beaters in the Gold Cup, but it was the way Melatonin did it that says he a legitimate threat to California Chrome, potentially in the Pacific Classic at Del Mar in August and beyond.

Trainer David Hofmans knows what to do with a really good horse on the national stage (think Alphabet Soup and Touch Gold) and Melatonin has run fast on the speed figures, and while California Chrome (finally) showed he can do that this year, Frosted has never run very fast going two turns and it’s not a trait which the 3-year-olds have mastered just yet. And don’t forget, both the Big Cap and Gold Cup were at the same 1 ¼-mile distance of this fall’s Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Where’s the Classic, you might ask? Yup, you guessed it, right at Santa Anita.

 

[Homebrewer]

Oh...and just a little over two weeks till Del Mar!

[Adam]

I'm guessing Melatonin is going to rest until the Awesome Again. You'll get 25-1 on him in the BCC. I'll use him for sure but I don't think he's in the class of Chrome or Beholder.

The San Diego Handicap at Del Mar is going to have Chrome, Dortmund and possibly Firing Line

[Homebrewer]

Old Friends Farm Named Charity Beneficiary of 2016 Breeders' Cup World Championships; Fans Can Receive a Maker's Mark® Commemorative Zenyatta Bottle Through Donation to Old Friends

http://www.breederscup.com/article/old-friends-farm-named-charity-beneficiary-2016-breeders-cup-world-championships-fans-can

[Adam]

Oh man, Ramsey is a nutjob

 

https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/ken-ramseys-ultimatum-his-trainers-over-royal-ascot-/

[Homebrewer]

3 hours ago, Adam said:

Oh man, Ramsey is a nutjob

 

https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/ken-ramseys-ultimatum-his-trainers-over-royal-ascot-/

Poor guy..I really feel badly for him.

If I'm Wesley Ward, I tell him to shove it up his ample ass.

 

[Homebrewer]

3 hours ago, Adam said:

Oh man, Ramsey is a nutjob

 

https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/ken-ramseys-ultimatum-his-trainers-over-royal-ascot-/

And thanks for turning me on to TRC..lot's of info there. I signed up.

[gotbeer]

Santa Anita race caller's dream job turns dark after learning of death threats

[Homebrewer]

Article there about Trevor..I wondered why he wasn't calling the Gold Cup races, but it had slipped my mind to check out why. I can believe he had been there 33 years already. He started a year before I went to my first day at the track (84 at Del Mar) and I don't remember if he was even at Del Mar during that time, And he didn't call Hollywood Park then, if he ever did.. but he was a fixture at SA. I just took for granted that he was so young he'd always be around So Cal racing. Man...33 years...where did they go?

Anyhow this is a good article. You've probably read it Adam, but I post it here for anyone that hasn't. His favorite horse in his years?

Zenny of course. Trevor will probably always be my favorite. I never got to meet him, but if I did, I'd tell him how much he influenced my love of racing.

https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/trevor-denman-magic-zenyatta-race-calling-and-how-america-has-lost-touch-horse-care/

[Homebrewer]

24 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

Santa Anita race caller's dream job turns dark after learning of death threats

Amazing that you posted this just as I was posting about an article-interview with Trevor. Race calling has to be one of the hardest things in sports, Denman has made it look so easy for so long (30+ years) 

Anyone taking over for a long time voice like Trevor is bound to upset someone, so many unstable people out there.

[Homebrewer]

Exchange Wagering.

This was really talked about a few years ago, like it was going to happen any day. Well (although I admit to be somewhat out of the loop as far as racing news goes since I don't watch TVG or whatever it's morphed into the past couple years, as much as I used to) It's been a while since I have heard ANY discussion regarding exchange wagering.

Well, maybe it's really going to happen in the coming year. I've been a proponent of the idea for as long as I've known about it. It will bring a whole new type of fan to the game.

Git er done.

Monmouth Park and the revolution that’s set to be a wagering game-changer

https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/monmouth-park-and-revolution-s-set-be-wagering-game-changer/