Saturday’s (10-12-2013) Power Page and KHSS for Belmont and Santa Anita are ready for download…

I have to say — OUT LOUD — that the stewards at Santa Anita just don’t get it.   Not disqualifying a horse like Appealing Resume in Friday’s 7th race is a dereliction of their duties and — in this case — stealing the money for With A Miracle’s backers.   It’s suppose to be a foul if you  cause bumping while changing your lanes.  But there is no incentive for jockeys to obey the rules of racing if they are rewarded for breaking the rules — as they are in this example.

Simple, if Appealing Resume holds his position, or is a little more cautious in waiting and finding some additional racing room, the result comes in 5,3,8,7.  So committing a foul –caused a loss in finishing position, but in this case it wasn’t the #8 – Addendum (who was bumped by Appealing Resume) whose placing was denied him, it was With A Miracle.   And the only reason for this was that #8 Addendum, who lost his position after being bumped, then re-rallied in very deep stretch to REGAIN his position…   The stewards gave no chance to Addendum – if he was not fouled – rallying and beating With a Miracle.

The real point is they are NOT enforcing the rules and making the game safer, but the exact opposite,  they are engineering outcomes and making the game more dangerous…

 

Friday’s (10-11-2013) Power Page and KHSS for Belmont and Santa Anita are ready for download…

Moravitz ran a terrific 2nd/3rd in yesterday’s 5th at Belmont.  The actual finish was 3rd, but was put up by the stewards to 2nd, which seemed fair to me.  Here is my take though — that Moravitz probably was the likely winner at nearly 10/1 but suffered a number of problems from the very start of the race and then at the very end of the race when Fastinov bore out and impaired Moravitz twice – while Secret Soul was in full stride on the outside.    The point is that I often recommend to wager to win/place on horses with such a “rich” price.  The point is that this game is full of uncertainty.  To that point, on yesterday’s RACE DAY LAS VEGAS,  I suggested that Make More Money in the 8th at Santa Anita was a likely winner but not a great bet at EVEN money, not the prospective price but the prospective relative odds.  AT the time of my comment, there was another horse in the race, that was a serious contender who scratched later on.  So the point is obvious, that after the scratch of Angel’s Moon, He might well have become a legit EVEN money probability which would fit my definition of a Single in a Pick 6.  But even as an EVEN MONEY probability, the horse is not a lock, just a high probability horse still subject to the vagaries of racing luck.  In this case, the horse that finished 2nd, had a dismal start that might well have cost that horse a chance to beat Make More Money.  Sometimes we benefit from the luck and sometimes we get beat by the luck… And that’s the reason we have to play horses whose odds exceed their relative probability as best we can see the odds/probability.