October
DecemberRoughies can look good too
Have you noticed that, in the eyes of pre-race commentators, long-priced winners are never among those that "look good in the yard"?
As someone who rarely bets at odds of less than 20-1, it’s my experience that 90 percent of fit and finely tuned thoroughbreds look pretty darn good in the yard.
In reality, there is often too fine a difference between them to make a call, so I am sick of hearing gurus (such as Sky’s serial offenders Gary Hartley and Larry Olsen) gushing over the few at short odds that they invariably single out.
I suggest that commentators focus on the 10 percent that can’t win on looks; then, maybe, they won’t look like such turkeys when a longshot knocks off the "shorties" — as they very often do.
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