Via TD Thornton
Since the advent of the simulation era 30 years ago, I have never understood why some empirical article somewhere doesn’t win the first post late in the morning and generate the niche. its own at a time of day where no other pari-mutuel competition on the continent is taking place.
It could be midweek in the winter, when most of the routes in the Mid- to Mid-Eastern Time zone have little distinguishing between their products, or as a special Saturday in the summer when some routes level C can have an advantage that can’t be tested for a few hours like taking the lead in the attention cards at Saratoga, the period between 10am and noon East remains an uncharted abyss.
Four years ago this month, shortly after the legalization of sports betting in the United States, I wrote a column related to morning racing for TDN says, “The time period is there to perform. In real estate, the money-making mantra is ‘location, location, location.’ The equivalent in the simulation — if you’re not the top follower on the totem column — is ‘time, time, time.
A review of this thread will address a slight adjustment to that 2018 story: The late morning period is no longer fully open in terms of bets overall. Major League Baseball (MLB) now sees Sunday mornings starting at 11:30 a.m. ET as a lucrative opportunity.
Although Sunday morning baseball games debuted with a light premiere, MLB signed a multi-year agreement to claim that period (some end-of-season games will start). early afternoon, which is still at least an hour earlier than most traditional afternoons start).
Only monthly paid online subscribers will be able to view stream-only games. And while MLB revenue executives are championing the league early on as a way to reach new fans outside of cable TV as viewing habits change, the unspoken but clear message is possible. Professional sports are opening up new territory, time-wise, to maximize revenue from partnership gambling.
The National Football League figured this out with Monday Night Football broadcasts in 1970. Although critics initially doubted that viewers would tune in to watch (and despite being at the time). that point, let’s bet on) whatever the two teams happened to match just because it was the only action on the tube, Monday Night Football eventually turned into a game of eye-catching that produced the The only football broadcast strategy in town on Thursday and Sunday nights.
A heatwave across the Midwest in late June prompted both and Churchill Downs (10:30 a.m.) Belterra Park (11:35 a.m.) to test morning racing as a measure to keep the horses out of the competition. painting at the hottest spot of the afternoon. . Single-post timing switches aren’t pre-sorted with a lot of announcements or fanfare, so a handle comparison won’t be of much value in these cases.
And since Churchill is a Class A racetrack with the benefit of lights to add flexibility to post timings, the usual morning racing there wouldn’t make much sense.
But you can make a complicated case for Belterra to join a flyer in the morning race.
The Ohio track’s current Tuesday-Friday schedule with posts at 12:35 p.m. gets it lost against Saratoga, Monmouth, Gulfstream and Colonial Downs in July. It would even benefit if it stood out from the likes of Finger Lakes, Thistledown and Horseshoe Indianapolis, which all overlap to some extent depending on the day of the week.
Beyer Blitz
Three Class II winners earned three-digit Beyer Speed Figures last Saturday. What is the most impressive?
From a raw talent perspective, Life is good (Into Mischief) John Nerud S.’s 112 string on seven ropes in Belmont Park is absolutely terrifying. Now 7 to 9 and having assembled a streak of seven consecutive three-digit Beyers, this ‘TDN Rising Star’ scored five points after beating arch-rivals Speaker corner (Street Sense). But apart from those two cases, the four-horse racecourse is very competitive, which allows Life Is Good to maneuver home without any stress.
Member ‘Rising Star’ Charge it (Tapit) posted a flashy 23rd win in the Dwyer S. one kilometer race in Belmont. His heaviest lift involved getting past a nasty opponent five-eighths so he could move away from the fence and spin in a pacemaker, thus becoming the fourth person to also pass. through the GI Kentucky Derby to win the next start. He’s made 111 Beyer, but only one of his five opponents has ever won the bet (for Delaware-bred 2-year-olds last year), so the quality of the edge Painting also applies here.
It’s hard to believe that a horse can win five races in a row with triple-digit Beyers still considered a bit in the spotlight, but that’s the case. Olympiad (Sightstown), who is sure to get more attention and respect after he was pointlessly cuffed to a good field at Stephen Foster S. Saturday on nine coats in Churchill.
Olympiad emerges from a five-horse scenario, first turn speed becomes second person stalking through powerful splits. He then explodes in the fourth column and digs furiously to knock an opponent’s wall out of the way. His presence near the top in the race combined with his remarkable ability to withstand the pressure of scoring 2 1/4 of the time late gave his 111 Beyer a legitimate sheen.
(Not yet) the end of an era
It might be a bit long to say Dr. Blarney (Dublin) is “The Last of the Mohicans.” But the 9-year-old certainly looks set to end his career as the biggest impact of the dwindling rest of Massachusetts mixed-race kids.
On July 4 at Finger Lakes, the kind doctor won his 26th race, beating speed to win a neck hologram for owner/raider Joe DiRico and trainer Coach Karl Grusmark.
Victory was even sweeter as Dr Blarney was reunited with Tammi Piermarini, his riding companion for most of his 37-race career.
Piermarini, 55, is the continent’s third winning female equestrian. She injured her knee in a start gate crash last November, and Monday’s ride in Dr. Blarney’s car was her first race back since that crash.
Similarly, like his multi-stakes winner, Massachusetts-born Piermarini began his career in 1985 at the Suffolk Downs in Boston.
The Suffolk Downs have now been out of existence for three years, and the Massachusetts-bred program began to erode about a decade before the track closed for good in 2019.
Dr. Blarney won a Massachusetts-bred stock at least once a year between the ages of two and seven (to spend the rest of its money being spent on the stock, the Massachusetts Association of Breeders organized host those races at Fort Erie in 2020). Six of his lifetime victories were by 10 to 20 lengths.
Although many of those races came to the mourning of superior limited stakes competition, he also won a black bet at Delaware Park and excelled for the winners. The company’s allowance horse opens in Finger Lakes.
