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In the past twelve months how much money was bet on her dogs?
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How do you know they aren't beating 99.9 % of the tests?
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And this is the argument that TGJB has not yet addressed in the "Listen" thread.
(Unless I missed it.)
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moosepalm Wrote:
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> And just because it would be stupid to
> do something doesn't mean that some stupid things
> aren't done.
This. Stupid things are done all the time. You might even call it a fundamental characteristic of the human race.
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If I'm Brad Cox, trainer of Caddo River, I'm starting to work the refs - and the media - right now about an uncoupled Baffert horse pushing me to the center of the race track early.
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Well, it wouldn't be the first horse entered in the Preakness by Lukas which broke its maiden in a claimer.
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I'm thinking the over/under age of a TG poster is . . . . Joe Biden.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. . . .
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You go down that path and there won't be any horse racing.
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Many Most of us are old enough to remember the Sport Of Kings fixed-odds fiasco.
But now, as Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice would say, I'm having a thought.
Perhaps some variation of the following would work: The tracks contract with, or buy the system of, or develop a comparable method to the biggest, baddest, most-hoovering whale in the American horse racing world.
Because
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bluechip21 Wrote:
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> You have EQ beat HM by a head who got dusted by
> Weyburn (a Belmont contender IMO) last out.
It's easy to get dusted when you have a bad trip, though I'm not so sure that less than two lengths = dusted. HM had a bad trip in the Gotham.
(I'm still scratching my head over the jock's &q
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Have TG performance figures been slower in the last few years, both among the elite and the average/median horse, due to banned steroids and smaller populations and nanogram testing?
Or are the TG performance figures NOT slower than before?
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JohnTChance Wrote:
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> Voila!
Thank you for no: Viola!, Walla!, Wallah!
(We take our small victories where we can. . . .)
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Why did you like Maryland trainers in the seventies and . . . do you still?
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Though I am sympathetic to Mr. Hayward's thoughts on this matter, I would suggest that opening with: "My wife, Betsy Senior, had to close her art gallery, and by the end of the month, we had packed up our car and, along with our 18- and 19-year old cats, drove to Saratoga Springs. We have been here ever since, with the occasional trip back to New York City . . ." is not exactly an
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I'm rooting for the guy who mucked at Ascot for $1/hr.
(There's a TG mention in the story, so I'm not violating any prohibitions on non-figure making posts.)
(Ahem.)
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When I first heard this gentleman call races I thought: Dudley Moore in "Arthur."
Dead ringer.
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The eternal problem of public (or semi-public) handicappers.
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Buy low, sell high.
The race doesn't always go the swift but that's the way to bet.
William Shatner's worst toupee is better than the very best toupee that James Traficant ever sported.
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Yes, the NY chart-caller is now parodying himself, a neat trick if you can pull it off.
It's as if Papa Hemingway entered the Bad Hemingway contest . . . and won!
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From that noted right-wing looney tunes site The Associated Press:
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Well, just remember what John Patrick Mason said about that.
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Indiana takeout on Pick Five: 12%
Canterbury takeout on Pick Five: 10% (yes, 10%)
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After phillywheel's post you would have an extremely nice day if all you did was follow his advice.
(Yeah, yeah, yeah - I know. Still, would it have killed JTC to post an attaboy?)
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The information in the NY Times article that Justify had more scopolamine in his system than could reasonably come from environmental contamination (at least according to one expert) is news to me.
Maybe others had heard this but I hadn't.
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"Ghost Soldiers" by Hampton Sides.
If you've seen the movie "The Great Raid" you're familiar with the subject matter but it's still an almost unbelievable book. One of those plots that if it was fiction you'd scoff that it could never have been pulled off.
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