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Re: Hey guys... - 2 years ago
TreadHead Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I believe he's referring to Giacomo and MTBird, > who both finished 3rd in the preak. Actually, Mine That Bird beat all the other colts who ran in that Preakness.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Wesley Ward - A couple of old srories - 2 years ago
I love that ol' "just a couple of nanograms" argument, as if that was the sum total in the entire horse, when the measurement is "nanograms per milliliter".by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: FOY day - 2 years ago
jma11473 Wrote: > Pedro had 46 complete games over 18 seasons and 13 > of those were in one season, so you only got to > see him baffle big leaguers with his moxie for > nine innings once or twice most seasons anyway. > Funny how the memory plays tricks on us about what > we saw. Way to miss the larger point, JMA! I wrote "guys like Pedro", so I wasn'tby BB - Ask the Experts
Re: FOY day - 2 years ago
johnnym Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So does this mean all you guys are attending the > FOY? OK, so the thread drifted a little ... touche, John! I'm out.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: FOY day - 2 years ago
TGJB Wrote: Pedro didn’t have 100 losses til… his last one, I think. By then he was pitching on brains alone. *** Bingo. Looked him up, 219/100. To me the thing that really stands out in his stats is that for four out of five years ('99-'03) he led the MAJORS in ERA, while pitching half his games in that lyric little bandbox of a ballpark in Boston. And in the year he "by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: FOY day - 2 years ago
Dang! I was gonna guess Pudge Fisk. As to DWL, Equibase has him at 16% for his career, but in the last ten full years he has cracked 10% only once. Kinda like Mickey Mantle's last few crippled years dragging his lifetime BA under .300.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Pegasus and Dragon - 2 years ago
No worries, mate! I take meds for it and could throw a 120/80 falling out of a plane.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Pegasus and Dragon - 2 years ago
Nah. Just taking the advice of Ted "The Mad Stork" Hendricks and staying out of pileups (including this latest one with Baffert at the bottom). I guess there's something about that stupid statue that just gets my goat. You're right. For the price of the dragon alone they could've had a decent grandstand.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Pegasus and Dragon - 2 years ago
prist Wrote: What's this thing look like in person? It's incredibly lifelike. True, Pegasus does look a little 'roided out (see the bulging muscles just below his mighty wings), but this is Florida, so, OK.(Little known fact: At the base of the statue is a poem that reads "Give me your retirees, your CAW teams, your huddled masses who aren't too fussy about adheringby BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Ray gives New York racing his highest praise - 2 years ago
I figured it HAD to be satire, but had Ray written "A Modest Proposal" (back in the day) I do wonder what that might have meant for the babies of Ireland.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Mejia a fan of Penn & Teller ? - 2 years ago
Bet Twice Wrote: ---------------------------------------------------- See Brady/Belichick. I see your Brady/Belichick and raise you Michael Vick. In addition to cheating bettors, owners, other jocks and trainers, it's also animal abuse. He's lucky he didn't get banned for life.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Gamine, Whitmore - 2 years ago
Minor, undisclosed injury, now retired. In what may be the first time in years that a trainer has said this and it was true, Moquett said "He's done enough". "There will be continuous updates for all who are interested (in) his transformation from Ornery racehorse to Ornery RRP project (or professional carrot eater) if that's the path he chooses," Moquett tweetedby BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Bad Test Bob and the Clean Belmont - 3 years ago
HP Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I always thought it was kind of lame the way he > went out “chasing the record†batting .240 for > a few years. It was sad to see that after he was > so great but it sold tickets and lots of people > seemed to go for it. Cobb went out hitting .323 I'm totally with you on the lameness of chasing caby BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Updated Post upon Linda Rice - 3 years ago
T Severini Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- The Linda Rice case was heard over five months ago > and they make their decision now, upon the heels > of Bobby being found in consecutive year > positives? Sure appears The Gaming Commission > bootstrapped them together to make a case about > "Doing Something". Why the delay on the Riceby BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Rice suspended - 3 years ago
T Severini Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does a hearing transcript exist? > > NYRA is a quasi private concern and likely under > no duty to release a transcript. If you can point > us to one, I for one, will read it. It was the Gaming Commission's call, not NYRA's.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Listen... - 3 years ago
moosepalm Wrote: You're familiar with Kentucky justice. Ouch! Damn, Rog, but good point.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Here we go. - 3 years ago
Very good point (and yes, I'm an idiot, post edited)by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Mattress Mac's Hedge - 3 years ago
TGJB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gotta love saying "500k increments". That's also how he buys Runhappy sponsorships.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Blue/Green - 3 years ago
nicely nicely Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On the bottom of the page, click the plus sign > next to > Show Pricing, Examples & Color Legend. That will > explain the different colors. > > 306 is the schedule post time. So it wasn't the mushrooms? Color me disappointed.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act - 3 years ago
TGJB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Re right at the end. I want to know who this > “publicâ€â€™that’s against Lasix is, and how > they know that. It's the "non-betting public", responding to a push poll.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: I nominate CLOUD COMPUTING’s Preakness... - 4 years ago
P-Dub Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That was given out on this board the night before > the race. Forget who it was. A Chicago fellow who went by the handle "bdhsheets". I would link to it but there seems to be a gap in the archives from 2002 into early 2003. The TG analysis, as I recall, was positive on Volponi and had him as a "use&by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Covello - 4 years ago
Beach Patrol winning the Arlington Million on the mantle? Way to represent! So, a variable dividend on a stock you bought 3 months ago is like betting a horse at 6-1 with 5 MTP when Rocky says he's 5/2 based on the doubles?by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: A tough best - 4 years ago
Good call, Bit. I checked, and your take is how it works in NY (and, I'd guess, most states). My understanding of the Remington situation was that the rule is not spelled out that way.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Oaklawn Handle - 4 years ago
Adding on to Albatross's reply ... Silver, as Alby notes, the takeout is the takeout (except for Canada, which has a monopoly system and takes a surcharge from Canadian bettors holding winning tickets at US tracks, similar to how NYCOTB used to work). The "host track" (in this case, Oaklawn) charges a "signal fee" for all the action that comes in from Twin Spires, Nby BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Oaklawn Handle - 4 years ago
No problem, 'Tross. I think your take is better, as it's closer to how the pie gets cut up.by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Oaklawn Handle - 4 years ago
Silver Charm Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Help me out here but if you have a $20M handle and > an average 82.5% take out that's $3.5M! If purses > even on a Big Day like yesterday where there were > two Big Stakes total $1.5M. That's a net of $2.0M. > Am I correct > In a word, no. Even if you figure an average rake of 20%,by BB - Ask the Experts
Re: A tough best - 4 years ago
P-Dub Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Those were consolation tickets. > > How much if he scooped the pool? I was imprecise. The DH was in the first leg, not the final leg. He did get paid for the non-jackpot portion of the P6 ... $4.5K x 2 combos for about $8900. No 5/6 paid when someone hits all 6 on the rainbows.The resulting carryover waby BB - Ask the Experts
Re: A tough best - 4 years ago
ajkreider Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Made all the tougher because the bettor got beat - > by himself. Beg to differ. The track screwed him, pure and simple. The DH in the last made for two winning combinations, and his was the only ticket with either combination (he had both). The rules did not specifically address this eventuality. He should haveby BB - Ask the Experts
Re: Replays - 4 years ago
Feel pretty secure saying that Spicer Cub was probably best there.by BB - Ask the Experts