If You Had a Pulse

by Ralph the Cat

If you had a pulse during last nights card you should have realized at the 1/2 pole of the first race that the :49 and change was a bit odd for the $15k MDNs going 5.5F. Its moments like this when you just have to take everything you knew from last week and throw it out the window, sometimes a few drinks of rum and coke helps the process. Players have so much trouble with figuring out Mountaineers surface and its because the track crew tries to get the track in the best shape to run no matter what the process might be. Dropping some sand on the track to help dry it up and fill in the holes was what the track crew did for this weekends races. So the fast times and early speed bias could be thrown out the window, it was all about who's fit and who's not. Taking a horse like Mr. Flamboyant in the 8th race was a good example. If you didn't realize how much the track changed by the 8th race, you shouldn't even be betting horses, so I don't want to here any crap about my selection of Mr. Flamboyant 2 days before the race was run. Mr. Flamboyant had little if any shot to try and wire that field in the heavy sands of Mountaineer coming off such a long layoff. Another day, another dollar, he might reward those that bet him.