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I agree that no matter what time is set as the final closing time for betting, money is going to come in bundles right up until the off. If you are smarter than I am, or start with more money than I do, or some combination of the two or some other factor leads you to handicap better or bet more efficiently than I do, I can live with it. The unfairness is exactly as TGJB said – apparently direct
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Run down from Aidan O'Brien on his BC intended runners:
Among others, Ulysses and Marsha are definites assuming no mishaps; Ribchester is possible but may go to Japan for their big mile race later in November instead; and Real Steel from Japan is a possible for the Mile, but haven't heard any recent updates.
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Notice included on the Overnights sheet for this Thursday:
"Attention Trainers: The new turf course at Aqueduct will allow us to run turf sprints at this upcoming meet, but we are restricted to one per day. Due to this restriction there will be NO turf sprint claiming races written at the upcoming Aqueduct meet."
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Tavasco,
“this horse is s/b†– can you translate the s/b? Thanks.
“Do you like front runners on tracks that are not fast?†On a grass course, yes. If the grass course is firm, the horses race on top of the ground rather than through it (obviously). The softer it gets, the deeper the runners sink into the ground, which will blunt the speed of their finishing kick. Since a lot of gr
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Apparently the top 3 in the Belmont Gold Cup qualify for the Melbourne Cup, so some of the others are aiming for that as well. That has surely helped to improve the field, but I hadn't seen it reported anywhere else.
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No no ….. you might have something there ….. interesting comment from the trainer because Maggie commented that she thought he was calmer, less wound up than in prior starts ….. Saturday was the second time I'd seen him in the flesh, the first time being for the Pilgrim last October ….. he was washed out that day but in fairness it was a muggy day ….. Saturday he was relatively cal
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Generally speaking, if you could know everything about the horse before putting in a claim .... there would be fewer claims .... Do you have a trainer lined up? If so, she or he ought to be able to fill you in. If not ... maybe you want to look at that first. Here is a link to the NY Gaming Commission rules on thoroughbred racing. Even if you're not in NY, it will give some ideas what you
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Frank ….. Yes, I remember that day …. I was at the Big A …. good description you gave it. That is actually a great example – a lot of the talk on here about track/course biases relates to finding horses for future races, but recognizing a bias is at least as important (more so really IMO) on the day of (sometimes not so conducive to forum discussion though). It also emphasized that some j
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Well, I hope you are right about that as he didn't move off of 24.5-1 after the Greenham, so I put a small wager on him. But why would he still be in Dubai? Surely if there was a serious chance of him running in the Guineas, he would have gone to Newmarket with the rest of bin Suroor's string (?)
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Latest is that he'll be a "late call".
One would have expected that the result of the Greenham Stakes last Saturday, where Godolphin ran 1-2 well clear of the rest, and the winner in particular looked a good hope for the Guineas, would encourage him toward shipping Thunder Snow over for the Derby.
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He's an interesting horse … in whichever of the 3 races he goes in, and all 3 of them are pretty open, he won't be better than the 3rd or 4th choice at most, but yet has to be taken seriously. Others will have faster TG figures, but his sheet looks progressive and open to further improvement, he looks sure to stay, and has won in the mud (and on soft turf if he goes for the Guineas).
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IMO, no. The horse has proven he can run to huge figures, so the 9 point jump doesn't retrospectively seem outlandish based on prepping well into a race that better suited his physical make-up after having had a hard time coming healthily to hand. Had the horse then been consistently campaigned at ~4-5 week intervals, it would be more eye-brow raising not to have had a reaction. But the inte
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