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All That Way

… to get DQ’d. Sounds like Bill Finley’s Italian experience was more frustrating than the takedown of Admiral Bird last Friday, although for my money, the worst disqualification so far this year happened at Keeneland, April 12.

Posted in Betting on July 9, 2008

Slumming

What’s a degenerate gambler to do when he’s off on a Monday but his wife’s working? Why, bet Finger Lakes and Fort Erie, of course!
Anyone reading who has tips for the Monday tracks (a list that also includes Delaware, Philly, Prairie, Colonial, Indiana, and Yavapai) please leave a comment.
Update: And so ends the Monday afternoon betting experiment. I played three pick fours and went 2/12. That’s right, I managed just two winners among a dozen races. There was a race at Finger Lakes I went five deep in a field of seven, and the two horses I didn’t use completed the exacta! Brutal day.

Posted in Betting on June 23, 2008

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.

Posted in Betting on June 19, 2008