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  • Saratoga 2023
    Take cate, Ranch.
    Gamvle at the track, be cautious with your health.
  • Saratoga 2023
    The good news is that was the last race I will lose there this year!
  • Saratoga 2023
    I hate NYRA tutf, so I'll look at the card.
    Race 3, #7 Quarrel, run well off the turf before,
    Can I get 5-2?
  • Saratoga 2023
    Essentially the same core race classes, same group of questionable trainers and clueless riders.
    Far too mant days and races.

    The three satakes days mentioned are special, but nothing much the rst of the meet.
  • Saratoga 2023
    I will look at Jim Dandy Day, Whitney ay, sand Travers Day.
    Other thsan that. I have no interest in Saratoga, or, as it it has become, Aqueduct Noryth.
    I started going and playing in 1977, and no longer have the stomach for the watered down product.

    It has evolved into Aqueduct without the blue tarp.

    TVG and Del Mar this year.
  • CD ends meet today. Moving racinf to ELP
    No doubt, Andy doe s a lot of good things at the track, a real asset to the racing community.

    I will always respect that and never try to diminish his good deeds.
    But he as some personality flaws that atre hard to get by.

    Please don't take comments here as minimizing the man, onyt the inner boy, who needs a shorter leash.
    Glad too ELP is runnung and not CAE!

    It just shows it CAN be done when the effort is mad.

    We walked on the moon. We got a track switch right.
    Geezw louise, we is goooood!
  • CD ends meet today. Moving racinf to ELP
    The best thing about age is that it brings new perspectives.
    --Ranchwest


    ...and new PRESCRIPTIONS!
  • CD ends meet today. Moving racinf to ELP
    Serling was rude to Dave twice recently, so I have lost interest in his schtick.

    That video, no gone, of him berrating Anthony for losing his job told me that my "friendship" with him was
    probably less than I thought.
    I'm 72 this month, I no longer need to suffer AHs.
  • CD ends meet today. Moving racinf to ELP
    I was set straight by God's gidt to horseracing, Andy Serling, that there
    is no racing there until Saturday.
  • CD ends meet today. Moving racinf to ELP
    I don't see any PPs for CD or ELP.
    There are free PPs at the 365 site?
    Where did you find them?
  • RanchWest working on a project
    It is the perfect tool for a casual player or weekend player for sure.
    Good job, Ranch.
  • RanchWest working on a project
    tHE PUBLISHED RUNNING STYLES ARE OFTEN WRONG.

    Truer words were never spoken!
  • Place / Show Wagering
    Mark Cramer once wrote that when testing angles, he wouls look for twice as many place horses as winners to validate his samples.

    Soiunded good to me, I looked at my records and found I hit twice a many places as wins,
    So i afdopted the strategy of betting 1 unit win/3 units on any selections going off at 9-2 or higher.

    Been very happy with it for years now
  • Result Charts as part of handicapping process

    You can choose the filters and what content you want in the PDF, then it saves as a seoeraye file, which can be annotated, but not by Formulator itself.
  • Result Charts as part of handicapping process
    I use the BRIS charts, alternative version, that shows the running line version.
    This gives me a quick view of the race in terms of where the horses came from.
    I can draw a mental line seperating front half and rear and see what horses made legit moves.
    I look at the race wiyh my pace figures to who did real running and who got compromised.
    I also like to compare times race to race.
  • Looking for suggestions regarding early speed and race setup
    Early speed, imho, is they key factor in most races. Many races are over 10 seconds into the running.

    No massive data studies, but some bought and paid for observations that have proven usefull:

    1. Many E horses can run as EP horses if they need to. Be very cautious labeling one a need-t-lead.

    2. An EP horse drawn inside may be forced to send early.

    3. An E horse drawn outside the other early speed may well sit off the pace.

    4. When 2 E horses are side by side,, re-examine the QSPs. An E4 may well show moe early speed than expected and challemge or even out-pace an E6 . QSPs, if limited to the lat 3 lines are as much form as speed. The E4 might well be an E7 or E8 when in good form. I use Dave's definition of an improving horse as good reason to look at back-speed.

    5. Dave's New Pace idea for rating early is tedious by hand, but excellent in practice.

    6. The Rs/Pos method by Jim Crammer iis excellent and structured enough to take out a lot of indecision.Much detailed iFREE nformation at HDW.

    7. If you use BRIS or have access to pace figuures, try adding the QSPs to the E1 or the E2 pace rating. I use B2L4 pace figs at E1.

    8. If you play NYRA, use the Track Trends column for rail bias, very good information.


    Great topic.
  • Do you ever?
    Rule 2: Don't assume you are, either! lol
  • Do you ever?
    I had scoped out a trainer move at FL years ago, invilving a cut back to 6furlongs. I made a major bet for a college kid, and then headed to the track bar. The trainer was there cucking down Seagrams, so I go next to him to listen in.
    He turned and looked ut at the track and looked surprised, I heard him say, "S***. I thought this a mile. Dsnged horse can't get started for the first 6!"

    D'oh!
  • Do you ever?
    If I ever figure out how to enable luck, I'm not wasting it on horses...I'm going LOTTO! :)