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NoCarolinaTony Wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> Looking for the usual guys that come closing week,
> but I can’t find anyone?
> Want to say hello etc!
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> NCTONY
Looking to be there, tomorrow (Saturday) . . . looking forward . . .
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It ain't over, yet. The years I'm not up sometime Labor Day weekend, there's either (a) a monsoon, OR (b) my funeral.
Gato
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TGJeff Wrote:
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> Today, in lieu of a Race of the Week, we're
> emailing the TGPS EXTRA seminar to ALL Thoro-Graph
> members. This seminar is usually reserved for TGPS
> EXTRA members only.
> The seminar is hosted by Vic Stauffer, Oaklawn
> Park's track announcer, as he covers the Alabama
> from Saratoga
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Could be Friday, if that's the only day of the week without rain . . . updates, as they occur . . .
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belmont3 Wrote:
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> And in a few short days, a contingent of hard
> drinking (but not performance enhancing)
> T-generates will abandon the Gateway Arch with
> their coolers of Bud Lite (no White claws allowed)
> following the words of Mr. Greeley (Horace not the
> horse),
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> =Horse&refno=1372752&a
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Looking forward to the closing stages of this Spa session . ..
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Entering the optimum period for Spa speculations . . . let the games begin in earnest.
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There's a certain style of turf horse aboard which JL can shine -- even at the Spa. But Dr. Edgar doesn't quite fit the dream profile.
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Didn't see that one -- but Lane is the beau-ideal modern-day stage N. Detroit.
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Pre-Lasix, yeah.
I'm not telling anyone anything new here, but: Different game, now.
Saturday's was a powerhouse effort -- but I'd expect a measure of regression, now -- however slight.
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Could not make it. Crappy logistics. Have far better chance this pending weekend -- and the weather is supposed to be God-like, with the rain blowing away after Thursday . . . one time . . .
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Boscar Obarra Wrote:
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> Though you might like to know CHDN hits all time
> highs today , 130 up from 75 when I spoke of it in
> JAN 2018
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> A bit of a rocky path , but they do execute.
I was told by a very smart man that CD was a screaming buy, fifty years ago.
You can only imagine.
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Larry's far-superior to Anybody Horrible.
Collmus' bad luck is that he followed The Greatest, Ever.
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Weather looks quasi-reasonable, but anything over 80 is problematic, and the current cyclical spin we're in leaves the region vulnerable to pesky mid-afternoon shower activity, which can play hell with one's best-laid plans. Hope to make it sometime this weekend.
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Mstrlucky74 Wrote:
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> Dad and I are changing it up and going to Monmouth
> Park(we've never been) instead of Saratoga. We
> will be going up the morning of 8/3 and staying
> overnight.
> I don't know the layout so looking for a little
> help. Ideally we would like somewhere with a table
> and close to th
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. . . and haven't been, essentially, since the early '90s, when California tracks first began to print their own individual track programs . . .
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richiebee Wrote:
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> Olden Days:
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> Recently(?), NYRA seems to have nudged the scale
> up a couple of pounds so that the top weight in
> overnight races is 125 or 124, where it used to be
> 122. For years H. Allen Jerkens was a vocal
> opponent of any adjustment of this sort (kind of
> surprising in th
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hellersorr Wrote:
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> As has been pointed out many times here, betting
> on a horse with a big PARX figure to repeat that
> number in NY is quite frequently a mug's game.
Truth, alas . . .
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Al Caught Up Wrote:
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> ... Who stiffed his editors and writers at Art in
> America, Interview, etc., but miraculously had the
> dough to buy Payson Park.
Nice. #hangingoffense
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FrankD. Wrote:
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> It’s opening day with a pretty good betting
> card, especially late. Some real nice price
> opportunities on the green with 4/5 in Late pick 5
> slated for the turf.
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> Too bad it will be in the high 80’s with very
> oppressive humidity and pretty much can’t miss
> severe late afterno
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FrankD. Wrote:
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> Bit,
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> A great piece. The lack of intestinal fortitude in
> the corporate gambling world is a mere microcosm
> of our society which has been a mission to
> emasculate real men for a couple of decades.
>
> Don’t believe me? Ask Norberto Arroyo 😎
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> I wonder what Benny “ Iâ
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Mstrlucky74 Wrote:
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> Guys watch the last HBO real sports episode. Very
> sad
If you called it "piling on", you'd be right.
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TGJB Wrote:
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> Looking for someone near the top, want to send
> them something.
Jeff Platt's the President . . .
His e-mail: jeff@hanaweb.org
. . .if that helps.
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APny Wrote:
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> Has anyone else noticed that many horses seem to
> have run new tops at Delaware over the summer but
> since then can't replicate the figs? Not sure if
> JB has the track too fast or if trainers were
> taking an edge knowing they could.I'm thinking the
> figs may just be too fast since they a
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Tavasco Wrote:
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> Hidden Scroll just won the 4th race race @ GP on
> Pegasus day. I suppose we will have some eye
> catching performances in the upcoming stakes races
> but Hidden Scroll set the bar pretty high.
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> I suggest watching this one going forward. In
> this, his first start he went 1:342 for a mile and
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enpe Wrote:
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> Sorry for my provincialism, but Phil Georgeff
> (Chicago tracks) was a great one. He was fired by
> Madison Square Garden (who had just bought
> Arlington Park) for "calling race 1 with as much
> emotion as the feature race 9."
Grew up listening to Phil, so I'm also prejudiced in his favor
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skitimber Wrote:
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> I'll bite and say no; there are too many great
> jockeys to pronounce McCarron the best. I just
> watched 3 races, 2 classic distances: the Breeders
> Cup Classic with Sunday Silence and a great ride
> by McCarron, no doubt. The only things better,
> the horses performance and the race call
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