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When you read something like this about activities at the highest level of NYS government, the only response that comes to my mind is the one from Captain Louis Reynault, in Casablanca, when he said, "I'm shocked, shocked, to find gambling going on in here."
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What I love best is having absolutely no idea where they are relative to the finish line. I'm certain they're coming down the stretch and then I find out there's two more turns. It's like Christmas if my horse wins. Of course, Christmas only comes once a year. It also makes me think of an artsy-fartsy-indie film shot with a hand-held camera.
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TheBull Wrote:
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> Moose,
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> It's not just the "poor saps" who bet on Gryder's
> horse and deserved a fairly run race. Anyone who
> bet ANY OTHER horse than Flintshire deserved the
> same. I did not bet the race, but personally, if I
> bet ANYONE other than Flint, I'd have been pissed.
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richiebee Wrote:
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> My personal opinion is that had Gryder stayed on
> the rail, Javier Castellano could
> have yanked on the reins, made a hard right turn
> to the widest lane, and still run
> away from MM and the rest of this overmatched
> field. Possibly the only way to have
> made this race interesting would h
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Yeah, if it had been an early 60's movie, she looked like she would have been played by Sandra Dee.
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TGJB Wrote:
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> I told him to see me after class.
The best part was your deadpan delivery a la Liev Schreiber as Ray Donovan, your eyes never leaving your notebook, and just a hint of a sneer in the corner of your mouth.
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plasticman Wrote:
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> There's a lot of psychological hurdles to
> overcome, ask yourself if you have no problem
> calling out a 50 cent pick 4 part wheel that cost
> 200 bucks but have trepidation calling out a 200
> win bet. I can single one horse in a pick
> something and have the ticket cost 100 or 2, but
>
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I would think that it would have to be an upgrade over the Carousel. Acoustics there are not good with ambient noise and it always feels like we are under the gun to finish before getting the bum's rush. I wager online so, for me, time is not a concern, and I rarely sit in the clubhouse, so it galls me to pay them three dollars for anything. Of course, I'm only there one or two weeke
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"Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool."
Rez, it was a pleasure meeting you at the Saturday seminar. Well said, here.
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FrankD. Wrote:
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> There will not be any weather excuses for Friday's
> TG open, just bad golf. If Sean is coming from CT
> he is the obvious ML favorite from a non virgin
> line maker. Travis Stone may have Moosepalm at
> 9/5!!!
If I'm 9/5, Stevie Wonder made that line. I think you got that 9 and 5
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jp702006 Wrote:
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> You are absolutely correct moose, this is a figure
> board and exaggerator has ran almost as fast on a
> dry track as he has in the slop. If you had to bet
> on one horse on a dry track however, who would you
> take? My money would be on Nyquist.
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> Patrick
Patrick, I would need to see Nyqv
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Clearly, Exaggerator is a slop monster, but since this is a figure board, if you look at his last three races before the Belmont when he was probably a bit over the top, he had the same three numbers, two in the slop and one on a fast surface at Churchill, where he beat 18 other horses primed for that race, and had nearly the same figure as Nyqvist.
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Looking at some of those claiming races with the usual suspects, if you put their horses' performances on a longitudinal graph, it would look like what I would expect to see on a politician's polygraph chart.
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PapaChach Wrote:
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> Really wish we could "like" posts on this site.
Yeah. Emoticons, too. Actually, just one -- the guy banging his head against the wall.
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When I was at Gulfstream this winter, I ran into a guy walking into the track who owns a restaurant in my home town. I knew him to be a gambler, though didn't know if he played the horses. I introduced myself, and one of the first things he said was that he had a tip on a Charlie Baker firster at Aqueduct who had been running his eyeballs out in the morning. I couldn't completely ign
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FrankD. Wrote:
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> I'm really wondering what I'm doing wrong in life?
> We got rear ended on the way to the Belmont. My
> front wheel falls off on opening day, I tipped the
> tow driver generously, put my traditional opening
> amount in the veterans bucket outside the gate and
> got back ZERO from the karma
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One of the nicest individuals you could hope to meet in the sport, and according to those in a position to know, a tireless worker and sharp conditioner. I'm guessing the Little Red Feather folks are pleased they entrusted this one to her.
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I find the notion of sitting in proximity to something called "Mr. Softee" very discomforting.
Frank, looking forward to seeing you the third weekend, following the TG Open, where there will be heated competition for second place.
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My favorite line in there is "Luckily, monkeys love to gamble."
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miff Wrote:
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> Moose,
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> Don't need to see the derby figs to feel that, for
> example,Gun Runner may get a slower figure than
> the 4th and 5th places horses. The figs will not
> credit/pace adjust his attending a very fast pace
> and doing way more running overall than the two
> behind him that will ge
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TGJB Wrote:
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> Yeah.
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> But try having a conversation about methodology
> with a who says I don't know anything about making
> figures, but I know the ones I use are right.
Nah, sounds too much like politics, these days.
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The discussion needs to be framed in methodology, not isolated outcome, no matter how significant the race. Given that this is not an exact science, the predictive ability does not come with a money back guarantee. A number is reached through application of a methodology, and to the extent that anything can be determinative in this arena, it is through a comparison of the factors that compose t
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The thread title is a marvelous bi-lingual blend of crime, punishment and wordplay. The French were nothing if not creative, in the era of the guillotine, with their punitive measures. Thieves were condemned to the stocks, bearing a placard describing their transgressions, which apparently included "theft of interior door keys", "theft of laundry", and "theft of handker
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Silver Charm Wrote:
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The mile maiden win he was 2nd for maybe a
> while against nothing.
The maiden win was a mile and sixteenth, and the DRF running lane has him breaking badly with a bobbled start and the rest of their calls were 4-4-3-1-1 by 5 1/4. The second maiden race was a 2nd place finish to Denman's Call who ran th
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TGJB Wrote:
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> In an amazing coincidence his horses don't run
> well at Saratoga either. Not don't win-- don't run
> well.
So, what is it -- a money laundering scheme?
(since the interwebs don't record intonation of voice, I feel it necessary to add that I'm being mostly facetious)
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TGJB Wrote:
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> "It's Chinatown".
I have yet to find another line from any movie that explains so much of life with such brevity.
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joemama Wrote:
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> Can Chicago use another professional football
> team?
"I didn't know they already had one."
- Disgruntled Bears' Fan
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And I thought my cup had runneth over getting a new TG cap. Grazie to the TG capo di tutti.
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FrankD. Wrote:
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> For the first time since the advent of the popular
> 50 cent minimum low take out wager it was not hit.
> NYRA does not pay 4 out of 5 like many competitors
> do.
> So there is 162K in free money put into todays
> sequence it will be interesting to see how much
> money is pumped into the pool? Th
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