Saratoga's Late Pick-4 Outline

Ok, let's try connecting on the late- Pick-4 at Saratoga for this Saturday, September 1st.

Race 8 - The Entry - Duchess of Rokeby - Panicking Petunia

Race 9 - High Finance - Attila's Storm - Chatain

Race 10 - Magna Graduate - Lawyer Ron

Race 11 - Baletti - Uncle Indie - Equitable

As you can see we spread in several races trying to shop for a price. So let's hope for some nice prices and some end of summer vacation money.

Good Luck to All.

Travers Day Results

ok, we lost $5 on our Pick-4 investment as we were trying to get a longshot home but 3 favorites won in 4 of the races. Can't complain though as we took our shots and just didn't connest for a score and we still broke about even. We'll get 'em next time.

As for the Travers, Street Sense had enough fire to sit closer than usual in the early going due to the expected slow pace his connections strategized and gutted out the victory.

Street seemed a little flat and I am not sure why. I know that his rider had to ask him for run in his last 2 works so maybe he is feeling the rigors of the Triple Crown road or just the rigors of training in general for a 3-year-old nearing the end of a long campaign.

Stay Tuned.

Travers $1,000,000 Pick-4 Outline

Well I have been asked to give a Pick-4 Outline for Travers Saturday since it will have at least a guaranteed $1,000,000 pot. So here goes...

Race 7 - Drum Major - Ballast - Gun Salute - Shakis
Race 8 - Hard Spun - King of the Roxy - Most distinguished - First Defence
Race 9 - Streetb Sense
Race 10 - Graeme Six - Magical Ride - La Traviata

This comes to a total of $48 which is not too steep considering that I wanted to spread out a bit in trying to shop for a price. Remember the horses we spread with are not impossible to come up with. They certainly have a shot at winning their respective races so this outline makes a lot of sense - to me anyway.

I hope this has helped. Good Luck to all

On to Greatness?

The blueprint is back in place for Street Sense's road to greatness.

He will be the heavy favorite to pull off the Travers this Saturday. Then he will march on to The Breeders Cup and if he pulls off that victory he will be the only horse in history to win a Kentucky Derby - Travers - BC Championship!

Sounds great but as we all know it's always a lot tougher than it looks.

What do you think his chances are?

Alabama Madness

Although Rags to Riches has skipped the Alabama this race still comes up very deep and also very tough to handicap.

There are several horses with great tactical speed and several horses that are very strong finishers all adding to a difficult puzzle to try and figure out.

Lady Joanne pushed Octave through the entire stretch of the Mother Goose only missing by 1/2 a length and Lear's Princess got within a 1/2 length of Octave in the CC Oaks.

Can either one topple Octive on Saturday?

Moon Catcher, Panty Raid, Folk and Tough Tiz's Sis all have enough ability to also pull this raceoff.

Stay Tuned!

Winning Strategies for Better Betting - 6 Tips...

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Many times a handicapper finds a horse he/she loves but because they don't know how to use this horse to its maximum capacity within a given race they just don't connect and never seem to cash those huge tickets.

So I was asked to discuss some of my winningest/favorite methods of betting.

Win, Place, Exacta's, Daily Doubles and Multiple Race Exotics are discussed, diagrammed and put into 6 winning tips to be used on a daily basis.

I feel these tips will help anyone that bets on horses. No matter what level you're at and no matter how much you wager. These tips will help you cash more tickets.

Curlin's a tired horse...

Watching the stretch run of the Haskell it was fairly evident that Curlin has the look of a very tired horse.

Keep in mind that he didn't race as a 2-year-old so he didn't have a lot of 'bottom" headed into his Triple Crown campaign. And the battle against Rags to Riches in the Belmont also taxed him greatly. So it's no surprise he has fallen off.

Curlin's connestions are going to have to re-think the rest of his year. If the deired race is the Breeders' Cup then they might not be able to rest their horse sufficiently if they plan on getting him a tune-up race say 3 or 4 weeks before the BC. If not, it will be very hard to get 1 1/4 miles at that level coming in cold, off a layoff.

In my view, they are up against it no matter which way you look at it.

The connections of Street Sense are looking pretty sharp right now. They have a reletively fresh horse headed into the Travers with a winning prep race already over the track.

Emerging star Any Given Saturday is now showing the talent he promised to have earlier in his career. He has been refreshed from his Triple Crown push and his races are being spaced very well.

It's going to be a very interesting finish to a great year of racing - Stay tuned!