We've certainly had our difficulties cashing winning tickets this year. We have made it much too easy on RQ's scoring. Fortunately, we didn't need an ROI winner to select this coming Saturday's venue - even though it is the first Saturday of October rather than the third Saturday in May, it is still the Preakness and we by tradition will be playing it. At Pimlico, they start early and go all day, with lots of time between races.
Pimlico has tried to compensate for what could be a lack of enthusiasm for the Preakness by having a card with nothing but stakes races and moving some major races to this card. In the past, the Black Eyed Susan has been the feature on the day before the Preakness; this year it is the race just before the Preakness. Similarly, the DeFrancis Dash has been a staple of the Laurel season, but this year is race 7 on our card.
I do have a question to pose to all of you. The final race on the card is the UAE President Cup [I didn't know that the UAE had a President] for Arabians. I happen to love to watch Arabians race, with their long tails streaming behind, but realize that not everyone likes to handicap Arabian races. Speed figures go completely out the window. I'd love to get a sense of our group of whether we would like to include race 12 or simply end our contest after the Preakness. I'm not sure what impact it might have on multi race wagers.
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