Flatter Pod: Gramm, Shutty on Breeders’ Cup, damn computers

The prevailing thought that computer bettors have become the bane of the average American horseplayer has been burnished with news that the Breeders’ Cup will not carry on Del Mar’s two-minutes-to-post cut-off of batch wagers. It was exacerbated further during the Keeneland fall meet with the big odds changes after races already had started.

With new controversies boiling over, the Ron Flatter Racing Pod focuses on the cry of CAW, computer-assisted wagering, in this week’s episode.

Horse owner, player and economics professor Marshall Gramm from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., joins the podcast for an in-depth discussion of how the two-minute cut-off has impacted California and New York racetracks and how its absence at Keeneland has been noticed. He also reacts to the Breeders’ Cup saying that its pools are so liquid that there has not been an obvious impact from team wagerers.

Super Screener creator Mike Shutty offers his early handicapping angles on next week’s Breeders’ Cup 2025 races at Del Mar as well as tips for Saturday’s running of the Grade 3 Fayette at Keeneland.

Listener and reader feedback with co-hosts John Cherwa and Keith Nelson focuses on the idea of pushing the Breeders’ Cup to December and returning it to a one-day event, which it was until 2007.

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