Dubai Heats Up, New Jersey slowly coolling

Sorry this is a semi link dump-random thoughts post. Over at the TBA homepage I've added the PP's for today's Dubai Card. You might want to check out race 5, post time is 1:00pm and I have no idea what time that is in reality. I don't think it's local Dubai time cause that would mean the race has been run, and I can't find results anywhere. Although 1pm EST is 10pm Dubai time, and that seems a little late. I remember watching the World Cup races around noon EST, so I'm totally confused. Either way.... I feel weird that, for me, this race feels like the beginning of the Triple Crown Trail, and it's occurring half way across the world. So far, I've been pretty blase about the whole thing. Small fields in California on a new surface, and horses on the shelf all the way to March will do that to a fellow I guess. Whereas this race is 16 deep with some hard knocking horses (3 & SH 3 year olds) going around a couple of turns (In Dubai who really knows how to count that semi-turn. Etched gets LaFranco and is the morning line favorite while Numaany gets a third string jockey and already seems dead on the board to me, so take that for what it's worth. Either way the race will be on video at some point and we'll find out if Etched wintered well. I'm going to hide this article down here as it's about the demise of racing in NJ. Basically Corzine hasn't done anything. Purses haven't been supplemented and sooner or later something has to give. Either way the root cause of the problems in racing won't be fixed. Finally, how does a greyhound trainer get $14million dollars to bet in the first place?