Jockey shenanigans mar BC prep races

[Port Conway Lane]

Originally Posted by Danzig

but one can bet him, or not, accordingly. it's there in the pp's to see he's a speedster.however, no one is going to know by reading pp's that the longshot will be ridden so as to impede another horse, and then be pulled up and not bothered to finish. bettors have no way to act accordingly, because they don't know ahead of time.
but i guess we're 'supposed' to know which longshots are live, and which are just there to be a traffic cone. how we're supposed to know that i'm not sure.
so, bettors get told tough and nothing is done, and bettors are just whiners.
but, hey, keep betting tho!

You also can see that there is a trainer who has two horses entered and one is clearly superior to the other. While one's intention may be more evident than the other, there is a choice you can make to bet accordingly as you put it.

It doesn't change the fact that in both cases there is a possibility that your money is lost before the race begins.