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Old 11-22-2006, 07:52 AM
oracle80
 
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Default 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.
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