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Peta has chimed in wanting an artificial surface. It worked so well at Keeneland.
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Latest hourly has rain all day Friday until Saturday morning, with the rain stopping early morning but a 3PM shower possible:
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12:00 am ShowersShowers 61 °F 61 °F 46 % 0.01 in 81 % 57 °F 85 % 6 mph WSW 29.59 in
1:00 am ShowersShowers 61 °F 60 °F 52 % 0.02 in 91 % 56 °F 86 % 6 mph WSW 29.59 in
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I should have scrambled instead. Congrats on the great picks.
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If you can forgive the fact that I analyzed the card without any sheet talk, here's an analysis that I sent to a couple of friends for this card.
Fair Grounds 2/19/22. My best races are the 3rd, 5th, 10th, 11th & 13th.
1st race: La. Bred maidens, impossible :Pass
2nd race:
#2 Indigo Miss (7/2): Lobo FTS with Luis Saez up. This is a half siter to stakes winners Hot Rod C
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Before they changed the IRS rules I used to go to no surcharge OTB and bet the exotics on the machines putting my bets in in multiple $1 tickets. I hit 2 bets that paid over $600 for $2. One of them I had $20 on a $1,013 for $2 P4 and since each ticket was under $600 I never had to sign & collected all the money after converting the tickets to vouchers. The other time I had $10 on a trifect
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When I was in college I used to come home for the summer & Nassau Downs OTB wasn't there yet. The only NYC OTB location I knew back then was in Far Rockaway, right near the Nassau County border. I had to drive through the 5 townsarea and cross the county line. The biggest problem was finding a parking space. There was only on street parking. It was a typical OTB, old men hanging out,lots
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Back in the 1970s there would be strikes at NYRA where the mutual clerks were out and they would race at Belmont anyway. There was a NYC OTB an exit or 2 north on the Cross Island and if you hurried you could get your bets in between races & make it back to Belmont.
The closest Nassau OTB was on Hempstead Tpk in Franklin Square, I used to go to the one in Hempstead many times when I lived
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I understand why the flags came in at the end of the game & not before: With the Bengals up by 4, a FG wasn't enough, so the Rams had to go for the TD. Since the Rams were running out of time the Bengals decided the best strategy was to hold on every play with the intent of doing everything necessary to stop the Rams from getting the TD. Since they were obviously grabbing jerseys (all t
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Bad beat for both Mack & me. Mack loses at the end of the game, I don't cover because of a missed extra point.
I'm going back to racing. I suggest Mack does the same.
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You can see what's wrong with the world today by reading the comments in the article where two clowns have nothing better to do than get into an argument over how to abbreviate Churchill Downs.
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The lack of Baffert horses in the Derby futures makes the pool totally unbettable. If these horses are performing well by March, the owners are going to take them away from Baffert & run them in the final Derby preps under another trainer. I can't see an owner of a potential Derby winner being loyal to Baffert if it means their horse can't run.
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I'm expecting to take a (very) small % of Mack's money when Caesars pays off my Rams -3.5 bet. I also got a free bet before the conference championshp that pays +210 on the Rams winning the Super Bowl.
People are really underestimating the huge advantage the Rams have sitting home at nights in the Super Bowl city & never having to travel. That's 3 weeks at home (they last tra
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I remember in 2014 a horse who was going to be a heavy favorite scratched out of the BC Juvenile. After Texas Red jogged in that race I thought the scratched horse was something really special. When he went back in training I got him at 8/1 in the February Derby futures. Only Derby future bet I ever cashed.
Today's scratch is tomorrow's opportunity.
PS : It didn't hurt A.P
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All you have to do is look at the trainer stats. BRIS PPs lists the trainer as 0/19 off this type of layoff. That shows us the trainer is more interested in giving the horse a race off a layoff than winning off the layoff. Now there are always exceptions, but it's best to avoid a horse that is in a category that the trainer has a low win % in. You have to get sufficient odds to buck a tr
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I don't see it as a stiff job as much as an incompetent 7 pound bug girl who tried to rate a horse who has a history of showing speed and exiting in the stretch. So the horse goes right to the front, the jockey tries to slow him down, he resents it, then she has a tough time controlling him as they race around the turn & then in the stretch another horse comes over him as he's tiri
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When he calls my horse in front at the wire, I think he's doing a great job, but I'm really disappointed in his call when he doesn't even mention my horse anywhere down the stretch.
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Baffert is 68 (for the record I'm 10 months younger than him, born the same year). Most people our age are retired, or at least the ones who could.
I can see how someone with no morals could figure these are bonus working years & he might as well go as far as he can without getting thrown in jail.
If he gets banned for life, he goes on like most of us his age, knowing our caree
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There's over $30 million in the win pool, he has less than 6% of it.
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How is Mac putting the bet in? Is he doing it in $500k increments spread out, or is it going to be one bet?
The reason I asked is EQ is currently 3/5 with $609k in the win pool on him of $1.248 million. This suggests that someone put a $400-500,000 bet on him already.
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Based on your story I'm a couple of years older. I was a senior in high school when there was a DQ in the Ladies Handicap, although I never went to the track until I was 18 and some friends & I went to the old Roosevelt Raceway. The 1st time I went to the thoroughbreds, I drove to Elmont, found a parking space about a mile away from the track because parking would significantly dent my
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I've never smoked, but in my late teens & early 20s I'd hang out at OTB all the time & by the time I got home I must have inhaled the equivalent of 2 packs.
A friend & I coined the phrase "OTB Face" because the 1st thing I would have to do was wash my face to remove all the smoke & nicotine in my pores.
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When I 1st graduated college I stayed in the small town in Western NY & was always at OTB. I took a job that summer in an ice cream plant & after they laid me off , they would call me up to work a day here & a day there. One day I wasn't home & they sent someone to OTB to tell me to go to work. I could run but I couldn't hide.
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I can't play a horse who has the only dirt win in 35 starts for his sire & whose female family has only won on dirt in Peru. Good luck.
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You wanted to know why & I gave you some reasons. If you wanted just a number response, I also gave you that: I'll repeat-Even though Helium raced wide, RYW still got a slightly better figure. I also addressed your trip comment with why I thought Helium didn't Re-break. Since you only want to have a sheet answer, why did you bring up a non sheet question?
Now if you don't
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Considering how close they were to each other & even though Malathaat lost more ground & got a better #, I think if you like 5/2 ML Malathaat, you have to like 15/1 Pass the Champaign. I don't see any way PTC goes off as high as 15/1.
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Helium has had only 1 race this year & then never ran another prep & enters the Derby on an 8 week layoff. The last horse to go from TBD to KYD, Destin ran 6th. Also Helium enters the Derby never having a 1 1/8 race, which is virtually unheard of among Derby winners. Here's more: Helium beat Hidden Stash, who exposed the class of the Tampa Bay Derby by running 4th, 10 lengths back
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The fastest horse only regressed by half a point, hardly the same as a 1.5 regression.
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I never would have guessed that was the horse you are talking about. I thought for sure you were talking about the horse on P16.
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Rombauer is too slow that a move similar to CC's move wouldn't have gotten him close if he started. If bluechip's horse makes a similar move he can win the race. I don't think my horse can win, but he can get in the exacta or tri. Remember, when CC made his move to get 2nd, Chrome had already put the race away.
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I can see who you're talking about, that horse is going to be bet a lot more than Dynamic One will because he's about 2 points higher on his 2YO top and the subsequent paired # before moving forward in the race before the Derby, and is faster going into the Derby. He'll get some play from the public handicappers too.
I still think just by how close Dynamic One's numbers on
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