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Post subject: Friday Saratoga Race 1 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:41 am |
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9.0fur D 3+yrN OClm 25000n2x Purse= 63000
_________________ The race doesn't always go to the swift and the strong but that's the way to bet.
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Post subject: Re: Friday Saratoga Race 1 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:35 pm |
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Just some thoughts on a wide-open contest.
Nice number on BROCCO VALLEY. This guy has been competive with open claimers, open allowance runners, and open cheap stakes runners at the Finger. Stretches out just a tad after a good effort with Slow Bred stakes runners. Overlaid for Baker in this group.
BILLY BEAR is undefeated but comes off a 299-day layup. Nine OK works since early July and Prado returns for Sid Dutrow. Kinda chalky.
THEARTOFCOMPROMISE is 2 for 3 at Saratoga, a last-race winner, and the only horse in the race that is a winner at today's distance.
RUFFINO is another layoff horse with a 2-race win streak. Has only had 4 works to get ready for this.
GROOMEDFORVICTORY need only be a step or two better than his last-race effort to get home here but he's at least zip for for his last ten races with Luzzi.
This race is a toughy.
_________________ The race doesn't always go to the swift and the strong but that's the way to bet.
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Post subject: Re: Friday Saratoga Race 1 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:44 pm |
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Luzzi has never ridden GROOMEDFORVICTORY, he's on STOPBLUFFING.
GROOMED and ART to start the DD along with FOURTH ST. DD 3-4-6/2-3-5-6
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Post subject: Re: Friday Saratoga Race 1 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:50 pm |
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You're right Stan. I have been sober for more than a week and my eyes are betraying me. I should have them fixed by race 4.
_________________ The race doesn't always go to the swift and the strong but that's the way to bet.
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Post subject: Re: Friday Saratoga Race 1 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:56 pm |
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I can see a whole lot of ways to go into a hole early here but the race promises to land a number if we're right about the layup horses.
DD: 1-3-4-6/2-5-8
Luck to all who are diddling this one.
_________________ The race doesn't always go to the swift and the strong but that's the way to bet.
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Post subject: Re: Friday Saratoga Race 1 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:00 pm |
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Old Mrs. Murphy (the WWII Army nurse) just phoned to tell me to ram the 6/3 DD cold or she would come down the block to beat the hell out of me.
_________________ The race doesn't always go to the swift and the strong but that's the way to bet.
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Post subject: Re: Friday Saratoga Race 1 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:06 pm |
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The layoffs (508 days between them) go one/two, proving once again that Saratoga is a tough place to make a living.
I can live with horses under 4/1 making me look the fool but I just laid out the Please Kick Me, I Am Stupid sign for later use.
_________________ The race doesn't always go to the swift and the strong but that's the way to bet.
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Post subject: Re: Friday Saratoga Race 1 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:15 pm |
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Maybe I will wear the STUPID sign. The figs on RUFFINO were far superior to the rest but the 4 works (not the times) had me concerned about conditioning after the 7-month layoff.
_________________ The race doesn't always go to the swift and the strong but that's the way to bet.
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