Fair Grounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAHOOO!!!!

I would encourage everyone to follow Fair Grounds this winter.
After the tragedy that closed them for a year, they are back and running.
They open Thanksgiving Day and I just went through tomorrow's DRF and smiled. You can see why many players have loved the place and made it their primary winter betting base in recent years.
Although they run many La-bred races(have to by state law) and claimers, they run a lot of grass races and always get good field sizes.
Very good article online in which the track super was interviewed and described the surface and how he worked it back into shape and how he feels its the same as it was before the floods.
The main track at the FG was always very fair overall, it has biases just like any other surface on certain days but the long stretch gives horses a chance to run down speed as well.
Good solid trainer base as well. Instead of being top heavy with one or two guys who dominate and take too much money, they have at least 20 guys who are in the 12-20% range on the year, who are all capable of winning races with horses. Calhoun, Bourgeois, Blasi, Amoss, Mouton, Stall Jr., Tassitro, Rayburn, Autrey, Richards, Stidham, Leggio, Johnston Jr., Werner, Hodges, Breaux, Pitzer, and many more can be bet with confidence in the right spot.
The purses are also very high. This is great for bettors as well as the higher the purse, the less chicanery you can expect. Its simple really, the greater the incentive everyone has to win, the harder they try.
Its truly a great place to place to play in the wintertime.
Start following it now and building up a memory bank of trip and bias notes, and cash in this winter.

[Thoroughbred Fan]

I also used to like to bet FG. I am usually very cautious at first. Once you have identified the trainers who have their charges "ready to run". Then you can often find tons of value. For some reason it seems like certain trainers "find" that little something extra to help their stable there. In any event, it is a good value track.

There can be only one.

Plus there are something like 103 horses entered to race on Thursday's 10 race card. Full fields is something that I love and love to see.

The place is just great to bet on.
Too many racing jurisdictions have one or two trainers that rule the roost, and make betting every hard. You are damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Parity exists at this place, no dominant super jocks or super trainers who win all the time.
You look at a race and you often see that 75% of the field has a chance to run 1-2. Thats what leads to value, that and large fields. You can get some crazy good pik-3 and pik-4 payouts there.
Get into it early and start following the biases and trips. You will be rewarded I can assure you, if you do the homework.

Definately a pick 3 haven. I love the pick 3's there. I also love the LA Bred races for some reason. They always seem to be so evenly matched.

[Thoroughbred Fan]

Originally Posted by Pillow Pants

There can be only one.

It was me first. I swear.