Meadowlands Pace and other Saturday night goodies

[SeattleSlew]

Great night to be better with confidence that many of the races will be "fair" to the players.
The new system for selecting posts for the Meadowlands Pace final will insure that all of the runners are motivated to more than just "slide in".. Those rules are below:
ELIMINATION TO FINAL POST POSITION DRAW
The premise of this system is to be fair to all participants and not penalize winners while at the same time
providing a competitive and interesting betting event.
Those stakes requiring a single elimination will have the winner draw from positions 1-6.
Those stakes requiring two eliminations (with the first 5 finishers advancing to the final field of
10) would have positions selected in the following manner:
• Winners would draw for posts one to six
• Second place finishers would draw for post seven and down, eliminating positions selected by the
winners
• Third place finishers would draw for post eight and down, eliminating positions already selected
• Fourth place finishers would draw for post nine and down, eliminating positions already selected
• Fifth place finishers would draw for the remaining positions

With that out of the way, here are some thoughts/selections for Saturday night:

Race 6: Meadowlands Pace Elimination 1

Yannick will almost certainly leave and do what Yannick does best.. steal a slow 2nd quarter. 
Voukefalas will hopefully get a better drive from Stratton than the last two and will ride cover to the top of the stretch and then pull away (if Stratton doesn't "overdrive" him).  Five qualifiers will be Voukefalas, Fulton, Cannibal and Combusion.

Race 8: Graduate Series Trot Final:   Jiggy Jog S (happy to see Dexter rather than Ake); no other commentary necessary

Race 9: Graduate Series Pace Final:  Dreamfair Arnie B

Race 10:  Meadowlands Pace Elimination 2: Confederate (others making the elimination should be..Ammo, Stockade Seelster, El Rey and Christchurch

[PIGLAND]

look easy

[EPM]

The Sweig and Steaks at Vermin Downs....12 15 post. 

[comeonman]

Nobody wants post 1... you win and get post one not fair.....should pick your post if you win. fastest first etc......end of story

[onabrake]

Nobody wants post 1... you win and get post one not fair.....should pick your post if you win. fastest first etc......end of story

worst kept secret of all time.....post one is terrible at M1 and even worse at Mohawk. Huge penalty when others think the inside draw is a good thing.

[Calhoun]

worst kept secret of all time.....post one is terrible at M1 and even worse at Mohawk. Huge penalty when others think the inside draw is a good thing.

They put the post position stats in the program every single race card.

It's not that big a secret.

[HornbyDuke]

Nice night of racing tonight. Funny last night. Noel daley i believe 3 for three. He does that at times. First one that paid over $200 caught my attention because driven by karma. Vanderkamp used to drive a few for noel yrs ago and every once in a while noel would throw a live drive his way. Looked comparable.

Enjoy the racing. My two plays heaven s showgirl in 2nd and coachella bound a in 5th.

[pocketrocketwinner]

Great night to be better with confidence that many of the races will be "fair" to the players.
The new system for selecting posts for the Meadowlands Pace final will insure that all of the runners are motivated to more than just "slide in".. Those rules are below:
ELIMINATION TO FINAL POST POSITION DRAW
The premise of this system is to be fair to all participants and not penalize winners while at the same time
providing a competitive and interesting betting event.
Those stakes requiring a single elimination will have the winner draw from positions 1-6.
Those stakes requiring two eliminations (with the first 5 finishers advancing to the final field of
10) would have positions selected in the following manner:
• Winners would draw for posts one to six
• Second place finishers would draw for post seven and down, eliminating positions selected by the
winners
• Third place finishers would draw for post eight and down, eliminating positions already selected
• Fourth place finishers would draw for post nine and down, eliminating positions already selected
• Fifth place finishers would draw for the remaining positions

With that out of the way, here are some thoughts/selections for Saturday night:

Race 6: Meadowlands Pace Elimination 1

Yannick will almost certainly leave and do what Yannick does best.. steal a slow 2nd quarter. 
Voukefalas will hopefully get a better drive from Stratton than the last two and will ride cover to the top of the stretch and then pull away (if Stratton doesn't "overdrive" him).  Five qualifiers will be Voukefalas, Fulton, Cannibal and Combusion.

Race 8: Graduate Series Trot Final:   Jiggy Jog S (happy to see Dexter rather than Ake); no other commentary necessary

Race 9: Graduate Series Pace Final:  Dreamfair Arnie B

Race 10:  Meadowlands Pace Elimination 2: Confederate (others making the elimination should be..Ammo, Stockade Seelster, El Rey and Christchurch

The other side of the coin is all this makes the final a less appealing betting race

[shotgunner]

Burke doesn’t just say shit to the media. Gung Ho will be on GO tonight.

[Bernie Madoff]

Are you going to post some of those easy picks?

 

[SAW]

1st - 7 Always B Billy 6,2,1
2nd - 6 Moneymakehersmile 3,5,9
3rd - 2 Whitecookie 5,4,1
4th - 3 Seeuinnashville A 6,4,5
5th - 2 Coachellabound N 8,7,3

Good Luck To All!!!!

[LUCPARK]

Why is Gary deleo dressed like the Riddler

And his clothes are always too big for him
 

[Brown jug]

good topic
i actually like the way the big m does it, not perfect but what is
here is why i like winners getting post 1-6 draw and not winners pick your post
you should not get rewarded twice for drawing a good post in a elim race
for example say 2 horses are comparable in a elim race, one has post 2 and the other post 9
the post 2 horse wins off a favourable trip and the post 9 horse finishes third
is it fair that the post 2 winner now gets to pick another favourable post for big money final
perhaps if their post positions in the elim were reversed their finish in elim might have been reversed

[mikeyo]

Unless you're receiving rebates, it's not going to be easy to make money with this card.

race 6, #3 Fulton (7/5) looks best. #1 Voukefalas (6/5) will be seriously overbet, I can't see him beating #3.

race 7, #10 Allywag Hanover (7/5) got written into this race, he missed the the FFA event last week, it's not
easy to think he will bring his best effort here. #6 Captain Kirk (10/1) is a good one to use here, his form is
better than it looks. #9 Southwind Gendry (2/1) isn't the best horse here, this is a big underlay.

race 8, #1 Jiggy Jog S (1/5) will jog here.

race 9, #5 Stonebridge Helios (7/5) is slightly better than #4 Mad Max Hanover (2/1) This is a good race.

Pick 4, (races 6-9)   1,3 with 6 with 1 with 5

race 10, #1 Confederate (1/5) is much the best. #6 Christchurch is easily 2nd best.

[HornbyDuke]

  what the fuck do the new rules matter at all. Sure if ur first you get your pick of posts, but being second doesnt mean ur going to be banished to the outside. Id still not use all the gas in my horse in a elim if im a lock to be in top 2 or 3. Does it really matter to confederate if he gets to be in the 4 5 or 6 hole in the final? I would want tk avoid 1 and 8 thru 10 though.