Originally Posted by oracle80

I see races where I get angry and know that something was up, but I don't know that fixed applies. Funny I should read this post today after the tantrum I threw yesterday talking about a race that STANK!!!!!!!!!!! CD is one track I don't trust, just like your buddy, I see a lot game playing and it stinks.
Yesterday they have a 1 3/8 MSW on the turf for colts. So I look at the race and make out a pik-3 that started in the race before that one. They open the betting for the race and Byrne's horse opens shjhockingly at 2-1. I knew I was dead right there. This horse should have been 20-1, not 2-1. Two starts in Europe, one on grass, both at lower ecelon tracks and both races tragic. Two starts in USA on dirt, beaten about 65 lengths in those races. No lasix change, no blinker change, no trainer change, nothing. Just back on grass. Horse makes a ridiculously loose lead(despite the fact that at least two horses should have been ahead of him, especially with those fractions) and wins by about 6. No please, whos kidding who. Its nonsense and if you want to tell me that race was on the level I have some real estate in the everglades to sell you. I mean after the race you can always say well leparoux was riding him and he was by Dynaformer but please, who was his sire when he got beat 100 lengths in 4 starts before? Including a grass start. Did they change sires? Please, that race was as phony as a 3 dollar bill and for that horse to open at 2-1 and go off 4-1 was a joke. And then they just give the horse a lead that loose in fractions that slow. yeah, ok, sure. File that one under the very suspicious race department. If I was a steward a lot of folks would have been called into my office on that one.