Overly Simplistic Slot Players and Obsessive-Compulsive Horse Players
Reader Lenny makes some very astute observations in response to my post about the small field sizes at Delaware Park an…
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Showing posts from April, 2007
Yippee, Delaware Park Opens: Home of the Six Horse Field
I hate playing races with really small fields, you can’t decent odds, even the worst horse in the race goes off at 10-…
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The Return of Red Rocks, Dylan Thomas and Yeats Set To Run
Breeders Cup Turf Champion Red Rocks returned to his winning ways after a dismal performance in Dubai last month. …
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The Showdown at Sha Tin
This will be a relatively quiet weekend for racing here in the states but there are two big races in Hong Kong on Sund…
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Content Providers Battle While The Racing Fan Suffers
As a racing fan I have grown accustomed to hunting and gathering racing content where I can find it. The industry is f…
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WARNING: Derby Fever Can Cause A Philosophical Tizzy
Winning a Kentucky Derby prep in April can undermine even the most firmly-held philosophy; witness the words of Greg F…
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English 101
Just in case you forgot the spring triple crown races are fast approaching across the pond too. The English Triple Cro…
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Curlin's Inferno
At the moment, it appears Curlin will be the betting favorite for the Derby. I expect that he will join a long and dis…
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This Zavata Never Ran At Saratoga . . .
Most racing fans remember Zavata as a promising two-year old owned by Tabor and Smith who won the Saratoga Special i…
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The Polyandy Principle: Keeneland's Surface is Ugly, Messy and Wrong
To hear Andy Beyer tell it, there’s something strange or even freaky going on at Keeneland these days. Andy thinks t…
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352-1: Not By A Long Shot
That’s the number of pages in T.D Thornton’s fine new book, Not By A Long Shot and a good estimation of the odds tha…
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Put the Poly Prep Winners on the Bottom of Your Exotics
Horse racing is about differences of opinion (heated ones sometimes) but for the first time in the history of the Kent…
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To Hell With Handicapping . . .
I know there are a lot of you cerebral types out there who think you can figure out this game. I am not one of you. I …
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The Story of Hard Spun and the Three Surfaces
Once upon a time, there was a racehorse named Hard Spun Hard Spun liked to run and he liked to win From Philly Park t…
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Will There Be A Quorum For The Blue Grass Stakes?
In law, a quorum is the minimum number of members of a deliberative body necessary to conduct the business of that gro…
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Maybe I Should Get A Trainers License?
It seems blinkers on and some cotton balls stuffed in his ears(allegedly) is all it took to make a Grade 1 winner ou…
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The Graded Earnings Curse ?
I did a little research on the graded earnings statistics for the last five Derbies and noticed a thing or two wo…
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Pennsylvania: 1 TBA blogger for every 3,070,376 people
Yes we are certainly doing our part here in the Keystone state. Not only did we give the world Smarty Jones and Lil…
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Fusaichi Pegasus
I stumbled across this picture of a statue of Fusaichi Pegasus that I have never seen before. I couldn't find any m…
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Todd's Tactical Retreat
With the news that Circular Quay will train up to the Derby and that Any Given Saturday will turn tail and run from a…
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The Rise and Fall of the Breeders Cup
One thing this year’s World Cup program did was to deliver on its billing as the World Cup. The vision and deep pocket…
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What To Do When The Bird Won't Sing?
Birdbird did not give me or anybody else much reason to believe he should remain on the Derby trail after yesterday'…
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