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    Haw 9th Tuesday

    # 2 CHILI EXPRESS I don't think I'll get the 9-2 in the program but I think he can get to the front. He dueled very hard last time and I like his chances of clearing here.
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    Empire Maker, Kafwain news

    Empire Maker bruised his foot this morning but Frankel said he didn't think it would keep him from running and running well. The same can't be said for Kafwain, who was scratched from the race this morning after suffering a leg injury. Kafwain was the last surviving member of the 2002...
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    Wed. 4/23

    I wrote about Silver Tree around 3 weeks ago how I liked his chances to repeat after his Mdn win. The horse he beat, Sir Lochinvar, came back to easily beat GP Mdns on the turf at 9-2. Now Silver Tree comes back against 3YO turf allowance horses in the 9th at Gulfstream. I thought Keeneland's...
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    Monday Haw 9th

    Scottago # 7. Love the lone 3YO in a race angle. He faced better at the FG this winter.
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    Wed. Aqueduct

    3rd- Danceinthestreets--think she can get the lead here. Only about 20 minutes til post time 5th- Taking a shot with Charming John. I liked his last closing well on a slow pace. Whether he gets the distance or not remains to be seen. 5-1 in the morning line 7th- Lexiloush-I think this one...
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    An absolute embarrassment

    The White Sox should be completely embarrassed once again after yet another on-field fan incident. This is at least the 4th time in the last year a fan/drunk has wandered onto the field. Those fans are an embarrassment to the city of Chicago. And White Sox management should be reprimanded by...
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    New ESPN commercial

    Just saw the one with NFL ref Johnny Greer yesterday. Great stuff. Total parody of the NFL replay system.
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    Cubs/Reds

    Seeing some 13.5s and 14s out there. I have several conflicting trends here. Fact: At Wrigley, totals of 12 and higher go OVER. The public sees the big number and wants to go under, but the fact is they rarely make them high enough when the wind is blowing out. I had numbers from 1997 on and...
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    Big races Sat. April 12

    Wood Memorial- I initially said in a post yesterday I wasn't going to bet this race and its not far from the truth but I do plan on playing one exacta combination. Empire Maker will be around 1-2 and probably deservedly so, but I'm not going to try to beat him. What I do remember in the Fla...
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    Wed. Keeneland

    Main track is sloppy and turf is soft so we have to adjust. 3rd-Machine to Tower loves off tracks. 6 wins in 12 off track starts. He's in decent form and has speed and the rail. He won't be much of a price but he could be a Pic 3 key. 4th-Wide open Mdn race. I'm guessing the Gulfstream...
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    Ten Most Wanted

    I see Beyer assigned him a whopping 110 for the Illinois Derby. I make my own figs using Beyer's pars for the Chicago tracks and I had been expecting a 102-103 type number. But a closer look at the chart shows some huge gaps in the race; from 2nd to 3rd, from 5th to 6th. Those kind of gaps...
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    NFL trivia question

    A contest here at work for seats 3 rows behind home plate for an upcoming Cubs game. The question is: Who caught Joe Namath's last pass in the NFL? I know he finished his career around 1977 or 1978 with the LA Rams. The names I'm thinking of as possibles are Harold Jackson, Wendell Tyler...
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    Buddy Gil

    Reportedly bled thru Lasix in the Santa Anita Derby which makes him a toss for the Kentucky Derby, IMO. Once Lasix doesn't stop the bleeding, you never know if the horse will drown in a pool of its own blood. A stressful race like any of the Triple Crown events in not the right place to race a...
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    Krause resigns

    He once made the comment: "Players don't win championships; organizations do." Then, of course, Jordan retired and he traded Pippen as the organization went from 6 titles in 8 years to laughingstock of the league. Ironically, this is the first year where they've made any progress.
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    Santa Anita & Illinois Derbies

    First off, the track at Hawthorne was pretty sloppy today and took quite a bit more water during the latter part of today's card so I'll be surprised if the track isn't sloppy tomorrow. ILLINOIS DERBY- Barring scratches, there's quite a bit of early speed in here. Wesley Ward sent Runnin On...
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    Tuesday total

    YTD 1-0 +1.0 unit Going with a repeat of yesterday's play. Look for the dome to be open in Phoenix which means another over play. The D-backs got shut out yesterday but the Dodgers had enough scoring to put the total over by themselves. LA/Ariz OVER 7.5
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    LA/Ariz total

    Over 7 I'm anticipating the dome being open, which has resulting in approxiametly 60% overs the past few years. The usual rule of thumb there is to leave if open until the temps hit 100. The forecast is for a high of 85 there today.
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    BC Fix 6 punishment

    Chris Harn, the mastermind behind the whole Pick 6 scandal gets a mere one year in a minimum security prison for what was multi million dollar fraud. This sentence seems ridulously small to me; he actually got less time than the other two despite the fact he masterminded the scheme. I'm...
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    Thurs GP 3/27

    I don't care for the early part of the card and I'm here at work so I'll plan on going out for the 5th. 5th-Looks like 1 Wild Cyrina and 2 Oxalis both coming out of the Mar 5 race are the two to beat. 4 Rare Honor could be a sleeper at 8-1 after a couple of wide trips sprinting. I'll...
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    Dogfish

    I read in one of your posts sometime recently that you use Carib for racing. Did you say they offered rebates? I'm very curious; offshores that I've used that have offered horse racing didn't have rebates.
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