The new betting system for racing at Oaklawn Park confused Rock to the point he questioned its viability. Obviously, he thought, it had been designed for no other reason than to allow it to merge aesthetically with the color and flash of Oaklawn's casino. For instance, betters would select the horse they wanted to bet by pressing large, translucent plastic buttons that flashed the colors of saddle-cloth numbers designated to identify the post position of horses entered in a particular race, e.g., betters should know to press the red button to select the No. 1 horse, white to select the No. 2, blue the No. 3, yellow the No. 4, and so forth through the lime green No. 12.
For one thing, the system would require gamblers to memorize each of the twelve colors of the corresponding saddle-cloth numbers. Rock figured no more than one in a hundred racing fans had ever done that. In fact, few of his fellow turf writers had, either.
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