American Racing – Anyone actually like it or bet on it?

[Anonymous]

I cannot stand USA racing. I watch it in bed, actually just watched a race at Hawthorne just there and a 4/5 favourite called Laser Fusion, dont know if anyone here seen it but my god the jockey – well dont know if I can say this but I genuinely was shocked at just how poor and seemingly brainless he was.

Everyone here no doubt with think I am pocket talking, I am not. I just genuinely could not believe my eyes.

For the little I see of USA racing the jockeys are incredibly poor, the horses are run ragged and the standard overall is so poor.

The betting is a complete joke due to the weakness of the pools. If you want a bet you will dilute the pools proving your bet almost worthless…..

[Anonymous]

Just watched it there, I cannot find anything appealing about it.
The jockeys shoudlnt get paid for some of the performances I have seen over the last hour…. just really cannot understand some of their actions. brainless

[Drone]

Stalls discipline
Pace discipline
Shape discipline – not finding trouble in running
Balance in the saddle
Hands, heels and whip in stride-pattern

[eddie case]

Stalls discipline
Pace discipline
Shape discipline – not finding trouble in running
Balance in the saddle
Hands, heels and whip in stride-pattern

I would disagree with most of that, they have a lot less runners to put in the stalls per race, racing most of the time on similar tracks.
As for the pace discipline, you only have to go back to this years American triple crown to shoot that up in flames.
Why do American jockeys always leave a gap you could get a double decker bus through on the rails?

As for their use of the whip, you can tell they have no whip rules, there’s one chap called Jesse something, can’t remember his surname. Jesse James would be more appropriate.
Despite the American jocks consistent misuse of the whip, our jockeys are far stronger in a finish.
Give me the variety of our racing any day and of course you have all the drugs there.

[Maxilon 5]

Give me the variety of our racing any day and of course you have all the drugs there.

Many of the American authorities are trying to deal with the drugs issue. They recently hammered a top trainer for using cobra venom for far longer than they banned Nicky Henderson in so called "drug-free" British racing.

And anyway, for anyone who has gone racing and seen a horse return to the unsaddling enclosure with blood streaming like a river from its nostril wouldn’t be campaigning too hard against Lasix/Salix in my opinion. So lets not disappear too far up our own collective crevice about the drugs issue, shall we.

As for the wonderful variety of British racing. What with uneven watering, covert addressing of long held (and punter-friendly), biases at Beverley and Folkestone, hosepipe-happy Clerks like Tellwright interested only in the attendance of stag parties, the surreal, constantly shifting biases on the vast expanses of our straight tracks, our weird climate and the strange topographies, you can keep the variety. I don’t want it. As a punter, I want consistency and by and large, the American model is more consistent. Anyone made a profit from the Lincoln to the Racing Post Trophy? I doubt it…

[Drone]

Was my post baloney or not in your experienced opinion?

Eddie Case,

To make it clear: I too don’t care for American racing, nor do I approve of drug abuse or excessive use of the whip

Simply making a clinical observation on the ‘professionalism’ of American jocks, horses and races

[Craig Braddick]

To Eddie:

The track condition is often softer up the inside rail, especially after a rain.

Craig

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