Not giving up just yet - Monday

[Jimboski]

Yesterday just had to be nightmare. The 4th race was bad enough, but in a different race I got trifectas going and down the stretch I need one of the two leader to win, the other, a very nice longshot, is fine by me for getting second and my show horse is all alone running 3rd. The camera focuses in on the two leaders and MY hoss wins.. got the tri, Yippe! And it was gonna be a real good one too. Until I see the no. 7, a longshot, finish third and he AIN'T my trifecta hoss. SOMB!. What really pisses me off is that I gave that no. 7 a long, long look when going over that race and almost included it. Tri paid great too. What a freakin day it was. Maybe I gotta stick with the footballers.. I played 3 NFLers (I usually don't bother with NFL much). One was a money liner fav. the others were side plays. ALL beat the spread.

I'm sick and tired of watching my hoss come in with a longshot for a NICE zacta and I didn't have the longshot in my zacks. Nuff of that; I'll be wheeling today:

Race 3: I like no. 8. No suggestions about how to betem, I'm wheeling just about all my picks.

Race : 6: Like no. 4 bestest. I am gonna play my usual way for zactas.... . .3,9 top/bot with 4, 7. Side play on no. 4 (8-1), straight as well..

Race 7: Playing a boat load of zacktas so I'll put it this way - IF the zacta pays 3 figures chances are I got it. If it pays something like $50 - $60... I'm sucking wind. Sue LeBaron's hoss is good speedball alright but I think he may not hold on to his lead in deep straight and run out of the zackta. If he doesn't, he better come in with one of the longest odds horses in the race for me. Lets see... .. . .Ok, I see that I got no. 6 in almost half of my zactas if that helps ya any. He's another 8-1 shot.

No need to post more for now.

G.L.

 

[hogman14]

NFL too tough. Although, based on the eye test, the public made some money yesterday.

Keep on grindin' Jimbo, not much else we can do.

PSU -2.5 this week. The boys will be ready for this one.

I'll hop on your hosses.

Problem is a 5-1 will go to 5-2 with a 5$ wps bet

 

[hogman14]

Race 7

Race 7

$2 Exacta 8-5 501.40

 

[hogman14]

SOMB!

 

[Jimboski]

Clean up time

Clean up time

Great to see NON-quiters like me and you hang tough in this difficult game to beat. Smart enough to keep our bets low, BUT sometimes making PLENTY of them in one race DOES pay off.

I had over $60 invested in that there 7th wace, WAY over my usual, stinkin limit. The KEY was to figure that the only horse that you knew the public would be drawn to was the favorite and it would not be able to hold off a at least TWO of the others in a field like it faced in today's wace. Just FYI, the angle here was that it was asking too much for a hoss that continually runs like a spooked deerl right from the get go in just about every one of it's races and exerts itself to hold on right to the end. When you see the slightest bit of regression (you know, like WINNING races on it's hands (errr.. HOOFs) and kness and not lasting to do that a couple of times, it's time to fadem. And that is especially true with cheap horses. The number of equal quality and competitiveness (hows that for a 50 cent word, LOL) of most of the others in this field almost ensured a jackpot payoff.

I know you like hoss stories, HM, Hammy, and maybe Sharky, Mully, and others too and my all time favorite was an exception to the angle I wrote above - My favorite horse of ALL TIME that prob. died before you were born (HA HAH HAH,... not really) was DUCK DANCE. He was built like a little brick shithouse and our determination to beating this game is absolutely nuthin compared to his determination to win EVERY race he ran in and he faced VERY high quality horses in N.Y. too. His head and neck were straight as an arrow as he would go to the lead, grab the rail and keep a heavy beat in perfect rhythm as he pounded his hoofs EVERY step of the way. He was sorta the Sugar Ray Robinson or Rocky Marciano (better comparison?) of hoss wacin. The best sprinters couldn't overcome his steadfast strides to the wire. Turned out, he was running with acute arthritis. I saw him in the entries one day after he took a bit of a layoff and went to the track to get some more of this CHAMPION only to see they scratched him. That was the last time I heard anything about him. What a GREAT looking, performing horse he was. Almost ALL ones in his pps. and he usually wasn't bet down like a Secretariat and he ran EXACTLY the same stride, beat, determination all the way every time, no slow ups or speed ups.. "steady HE goes", just show em your ass and elbows all the way, impressive as all hell.

Today:
3rd: Ran OK, but not good enough that's fersho at 2-1.

6th: No. 4, picked at 8-1 M.L. goes off at 5/2 Sheesh! Still, liked him the best and he ran like the best

7th: I hadem rated this way for this race ->11,8,6,5. YES, I did have the no. 8 highest AFTER tossing almost all plays involving the favored no. 11. Personnally, I liked the 6 better than the 8, but had one or the other on almost all tickets. So, you already know what I did with the no. 11. Need I say more? [size=+3] Cha Ching [/size]

8th and 9th: no plays.

I hit my bestest bet in college FB 4 weeks straight.. REALLY, gonna post it here this week along with the ponies. NOT suggesting anybody plays it though cause I think I'll be laying a little mo wood on it this Sat.

Here's a neat website that some may be interested in. I bet DD would beat many of these in a sprint; TOO BAD he doesn't get a mention:
http://www.horsehats.com/famous-racehorses.html

Today race results means little, putting results half as good as today's CONSISTANTLY means everything.

 

[skodaa]

Harness or Flats

Harness or Flats

Which you think R easier to fix

The key witness against them is Tony Ciulla (pronounced shoo-la), a 6'3", 320-pound career fixer and the acknowledged mastermind behind the wholesale rigging, who is now under federal protection. Ciulla's testimony before a recent U.S. grand jury in Detroit helped bring about the seven-count indictment of eight co-conspirators, including jockeys Billy Phelps and Larry Kunitake and Trainer Michael Marion, for allegedly fixing races at Detroit Race Course and Hazel Park in 1973.

"In Maryland we fixed races at Bowie, Laurel, Pimlico and even little Timonium," Ciulla says. "Dozens and dozens of races at Delaware Park. Pennsylvania? At Liberty Bell, Keystone, Penn National and, in the biggest laugh of all, when I took my family on a vacation in the mountains and stopped at Pocono Downs.... That was like shooting fish in a barrel."


Brazenly, Fantini asked for a $100 advance on the next "8-to-5 shot" that he would hold. Then he asked how he could improve his holding techniques. "None of that bull...just diving off a horse like you're in a swimming pool," Ciulla snapped. They discussed which jockeys and trainers would or would not fix a race. "We've got an army full of people holding," Verrone said.

 

[Jimboski]

I think there may have been some fixing a long time ago but not these days. Computers can track betting patterns, betting pools are smaller, purses are much bigger.

On the track? No question - harness racing should be much easier to fix.

 

[skodaa]

I'll have another....

I'll have another....

:toast: