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Originally Posted by oracle80
I've actually come to like Tuesdays and Mondays as much as any other day provided its in the spring, summer, fall.
Calder, Finger Lakes, and Delaware are pretty cool tracks to play, as is Turf Paradise. Granted many of the races are cheap but the biases you just mentioned are among the reasons I absolutely love them.
Hoove syou have to remember that in NY, Ky, Cali you are playing against the sharpest sharks in the water. Everyone is using sheets, clocker info is sold to high bidders, and the coeverage of these tracks leads to no secrets regarding bad trips and horses who ran against the bias. Look at the payouts on the NYRA circuit on a daily basis where exactas often pay less than win place parlay(the accepted method for years on what the exacta should pay at a bare minimum), pik-3's that pay less or the same as the parlay, and doubles that make you scratch your head. Its not the results I question, its the fact that payouts are consistently underlaid. This is because the sharpies are battling one another and the larger pool sizes are negated by the sharp money in them.
Those tracks I just mentioned don't have as many sharpies betting them and especially on days with biases, you can make a score.
Yesterday I took some tough beats, but take a look at the last pik-3 at Turf Paradise where I managed to get unstuck for the day on a small wager.
I played an 8 dollar pik-3 3,6/1,2,3,6/2,3. It cost me 128 bucks. I didn't have any hopes of getting out or ahead on the day. I just thought I could get some back as it looked like a decent play. First part was won by the 3 who only paid 4.80 and I said ah ****, now I can't make squat. 2nd leg was won by the 2 who paid 8.60. In the last leg the 2 lost by an eigth of an inch, and everyone thought he won including the cameraman but then they dq'd the 3 horse for a bad foul. 2 paid 12.60. Now the 3 horse parlay would pay 130 dollars even. When they put up the pik-3 payout I was kinda pissed because it said 122.80. But that was before I realized it was for one dollar, not two. Thats almost twice the parlay and that was incredible value.
I love Finger Lakes and always have. Its the kinda track that you have to follow daily and keep track of the biases for, but if you do you canbet against some really bad faves who don't have a snowball's chance in hell.
Delware is getting bad now, they close this weekend and the rain has left small fields with big chalks, but most of the year they pay great as well.
Its different than playing the big tracks, no doubt. You don't have the supertrainers with gaudy percentages winning most of the races and the jockey colonies aren't so top heavy that only the big guys win most of teh races. But thats what makes it cool. You look at any given race and you can't just toss half the field on bad connections.
Now once November ends and Mon and Tues bring me Philly and Tampa bay, two tracks I consider impossible and that i hate, I say no way. I'm also not a Gulfstream guy except for weekends(which is when they have the only decent cards anymore the last 3 years).
But maybe next year you wanna start following Delaware, Calder, and Finger Lakes. I think you might be surprised at the value they can bring to you.
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