JC / Railbird

It’s a Mirage; I’m Tellin’ Y’all it’s Sabotage

After seeing what the pick four paid on Tuesday at Colonial Downs (races four through seven), I’ve decided to focus on the track in the hope of securing a similar overlay using two 9-to-2 horses and two favorites.
After taking care of my husbandly duties at home (e.g., walking/feeding the dog, laundry, starting dinner), I settled in with my Friday Colonial PPs, my Equineline account, and my Pilot G-2 05 blue pen to begin handicapping the twilight pick four.
Much to my dismay, some of the races aren’t coming up on Formulator.
No matter, I’ll just tackle that two-year-old MSW race (the sixth) by looking up some pedigrees and trying to unearth some juvenile and/or turf form. Whoa there, big fella! Nothing doin’ there either. Equineline accepts my orders but cannot retrieve the actual information.
Clearly this is a bipartisan conspiracy (have you ever seen Democrats and Republicans get along as well as they did today at the Congressional hearing?) to keep people from participating in Thoroughbred racing.
Many of us saw/heard firsthand the horseplayer getting ignored during the hearing, and the subcommittee has already put its words into action by keeping us from handicapping our favorite tracks.
At the very least, NYRA heard I started my boycott of its signal over the takeout increase, and it has made all information to other tracks inaccessible to me.
Either way, I’m getting out my tin foil hat.
Seriously, though … check out those charts I linked to (races four through seven) and tell me how that pick four returned $2,900+ for a deuce.


2 Comments

I use a pilot G2 pen too, smooth as silk. I also agree that Colonial is a goldmine. If we bear down on that track I can see us using a diamond encrusted G2 pen sometime in the near future. I still can not believe that Red Giant paid 36-1 in the Virginia Derby last year.

Posted by Greg Calabrese on June 20, 2008 @ 3:34 am

Colonial is one of my favorites also. I think it’s a goldmine because the public typically bets off of BSFs, which I find to be useless at Colonial. Also, lots of hidden turf form there as the Maryland cheaper claimers typically have nothing but dirt on their form through the winter. Lots of unrecognizable trainers add into the mix to confuse the public along with horses going from jumps back to flats….it’s a great place to refine your turf capin’. Even chalky, obvious exactas can come back with 30 or 40 bones…don’t get that at MTH or NYRA. Kinda like Tampa but better, IMHO.

Posted by o_crunk on June 20, 2008 @ 11:14 am