Scioto Downs

[FirstUp]

Fed up with the race secretary at Scioto.  Hoosier, The Meadows, and Northfield all write more trots in 1 night than Scioto does in a whole week. They are putting 10 in the open because they refuse to write the class below.  On top of that the conditions sheet stated NW4 (which has had 10 every week) but it was filled as a NW5 after the fact.  This screams 'good old boys club'.  All the stuff about why the industry has new customer issues, well here is a reason.  Complete lack of transparency. 

[LVGaryD]

Fairly certain the race secretary writes only what Stacy tells him to write. In my opinion, they should always write a F&M open trot, F&M winners over trot, as well as the same for the boys. I know they were very worried about filling those races at the start of the meet.
 

[FirstUp]

You are more than likely right, they just seem to be really punishing the Horsemen.  The NW4 has been filling every week, it was written as such in the condition sheet and then it fills as a NW5 with all of the same NW4 horses except two that have been racing out east.  Those 2 are the favorites.  The open has to be pretty frustrating for some of these guys as well.  This week they assigned 1-5 and 8-9 while drawing 7,8,10.  That in itself make little sense but you then have horses given the 1-2-3 hole that are significantly lower on the morning line than the 10 horse.  They were at one time writing NW9kL4, NW17500L4 and the open, all filling.  When they stopped the NW175000 the NW9k jammed up with AE's and the open started going with 100 horses.  I would think 1 freaking pace could be sacrificed for the upper condition trotters.

It just strikes me how much PA and Indiana write state preferred conditions making it damn near impossible to get in but Ohio has opened the boarders wide.

[LVGaryD]

I agree 100%. Ohio has never protected their horsemen very good at the race offices.