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Triple Crown: Home schooled
At the finish of the wildly exciting Preakness, I stood from my home wagering site, which is a computer and a desk and a credit card and a pad and a pencil and a TV set, and I said, "Did you see that?"Preakness Stakes Pops
Preakness Stakes betting tips and picks from Jay Cronley. Here, one of two things can happen: Bodemeister will again get an uncontested lead and will last, or The real Derby stories
The Kentucky Derby beat "The Avengers" over the weekend. More money was bet on the Derby than was spent by all the geeks in the world, a pretty impressive happenstance.Recapping the Kentucky Derby
Recapping the Kentucky Derby - Union Rags should get a job at the airport baggage claim area where he could get paid for sniffing around trouble.Kentucky Derby Betting: Kentucky Derby Rundown
Kentucky Derby Betting. Jay Cronley breaks down the Kentucky Derby post positions and how they impact the runners as you bet on the Kentucky Derby.2012 Kentucky Derby countdown is on
2012 Kentucky Derby. Everything you need to bet on the Kentucky Derby May 5th at Churchill Downs. Handicapping advice and more.Kentucky Derby Handicapping: Derby time
Here are some suggestions and tips about handicapping the Kentucky Derby. Kentucky Derby - 22,000 pounds of trouble
It's never too early to complain about the size of the Kentucky Derby field, 20 horses, a few of whom know how to run correctly.Horse Betting - Step right up
Horse Betting - What's the worst thing about horse racing when it comes to filling a lovely spring afternoon? Losing.Sport report
In a major front page investigation piece Sunday in the New York Times, horse racing is presented as a barbaric endeavor, more like dog fighting than crowning, with dead horses and maimed jockeys prominently displayed throughout the multi-page discussion of the sport.Kentucky Derby - Warming up
Expert pickers, which is to say people who get paid for their opinions on who will win what, see and hear basically the same things and come up with similarly flawed and predictable selections, favorites due to flop, sucker-play long shots, and inside information any halfway decent handicapper could see through a beer glass. A thinking problem
Thinking too much is the number one cause of all the miscalculations in horse racing. Lots of people couldn't wait to bet against Creative Cause at Santa Anita Saturday, preferring instead the antics of a maiden winner, period. This isn't hindsight. This is almost a rule: Take the third place Grade 1 runner over a fast maiden winner.Real Deals - College Basketball
In a team sport like college basketball, what passes for improvement is the reality of playing sorry competition. It's why you see college hoop squads run off a dozen wins in a row and enter a conference tournament with 27 victories and then lose in the semis to a Hardly Anybody.Numbers game - Beyer Figures
This one is about Beyer numbers, the obviously important Racing Form postings that say: Bet Me. Here's the catch. Sometimes, oftentimes, most times, lower Beyer numbers beat higher Beyer numbers.A bright future
A future bet, or investment, locks in a price and a contract date. A contract date is another way of saying a delivery date. People used to deal in future contracts of pork bellies, bacon, basically. If you don't sell the commodity you have bought by a specified date, it can be delivered to the divorce court of your choice.Our Horse - Kentucky Derby Prep Races
There's a local hero element to horse racing in the spring as the Triple Crown races come to mind. There's a team sports feeling to the Kentucky Derby prep races. Speaking of teams, here's what happened in and around the Super Bowl. The game produced some of the best sports action in the history of the game. Numerous experts participated in the nuttiest thing ever in post-game thinking, second-guessing a winner. Mature Moments
Possibly the best lesson to be learned all around was that losers play the next race like it's their last race. Good handicappers approach the next one as a race like any other. Del Mar - California dreamy
The first few days of the Del Mar meet, I've been playing $1 pick three tickets and collecting good payoff with regularity on bets of $37 and the like.Refresher
To beat a decent favorite with two or three horses and inflate the Exactas and tri's to lofty levels, you will need to find in the field some healthy animals whose surroundings are improving this time out Horse Racing - Thanks friends
to speak of the people you meet around horse racing, the young and the puzzled, the old and the overdue, rank beginners and the exasperated alike.Acknowledging pure luck
When a bad beat occurs on a televised event, the camera zooms in on the loser. Agony is photogenic. Winning is taken for granted. Horse Racing - Tools of hope
Numbers don't lie. But in horse racing, certain numbers stretch the truth. The search for a magic number to pop out at the end of a rainbow exemplifies the difficulty of the horse handicapping game.Splish splash at Belmont Stakes
Speed arrested at Belmont
One thing making sense before the Belmont Stakes is that Animal Kingdom can't break any worse than he did in Baltimore, when he appeared to have stage fright. If he breaks nearly that bad, he loses.Live and in person
A Triple Crown race like the Belmont Stakes make a person want to get involved, not with horses, with the tracks; it's enough to make a horse player go to the live races again.Belmont memories and futures
With the Belmont Stakes on deck, here's a decent question: Has horse racing outgrown big cities? Or has it at least grown around them?Preakness - Here comes Cosequin down the lane
Here's what we should have acknowledged, even learned, from the Preakness Stakes. Raw speed is responsible for some of the biggest payoffs at the horse races.Teaming up on handicappers
Nobody closes much at the Belmont distance, at whose stadium plenty of good seats are apt to be available.Sports fans need a Triple Crown winner
Is it any wonder we're looking to a horse to win a Triple Crown and become a national hero?Animal house
Lots of handicapping weasels came from this Kentucky Derby woodpile. Little around the racetrack is more unpleasant than when somebody says the he or she had the winner without having said that he or she was going to play the winner.Animal instincts
Once more, the condition of horse racing appears to have been misdiagnosed. Here's what transpired at the Kentucky Derby. An attendance record was set at Churchill. A dime for your thoughts
Too much talk
From now to the Derby post, the horse player is apt to hear dozens of great-sounding theories, save for the fact that the ones putting forth the plans may have just run zero for 50. Kentucky Derby - Wait until this year
This Kentucky Derby requires special attention. It used to be much harder to lose money on this race.It's a great sport
It happens every May: An intern tells a mainstream media member that the big horse race in Kentucky is due, and soon it's on the air. Horse racing, like boxing, is down for the count. And now, today's strike and drug use news in the "major" sports. Here are 57 reasons why horse racing remains one of the best sports going. Kentucky Derby 137 looking great
This could be one of the best Kentucky Derbies ever because all three running styles are covered by first-class travelers -- The Factor's uncompromising speed that shakes off rabbits like flies, Uncle Mo's powerful stalking mode that's as reliable as the tide, and Dialed In's sweeping, swooping, deep-closing rush, the dramatic stuff of which paupers and the princely are often defined by an examination of a photograph. Tipping (the scales)
The more I win, the more I tip. Don't forget that you don't win what you collect. Bet $50, win $100, the unwritten tip rule stipulates a gratuity of nothing. A two-buck tip on a $100 win is two bucks more than the teller had before you did all the work. A twenty-dollar bill on a $500 collection is extremely generous.Relief
They're always there, ready with some Derby talk, the regulars, be it Winning Colors scoring from up front back in one of the days or, speaking of speed, be it The Factor who just won... Read More.Handicapping rascals
Field of nightmares
Valuing your sanity
Bad is good
Our game today - Horse Races
He only fainted
Basic training
Fame and fortune
Rainbows. Marking a Racing Form
Uncommon cents
Through the Fog
Smarts
At the finish of the wildly exciting Preakness, I stood from my home wagering site, which is a computer and a desk and a credit card and a pad and a pencil and a TV set, and I said, "Did you see that?"Preakness Stakes Pops
Preakness Stakes betting tips and picks from Jay Cronley. Here, one of two things can happen: Bodemeister will again get an uncontested lead and will last, or The real Derby stories
The Kentucky Derby beat "The Avengers" over the weekend. More money was bet on the Derby than was spent by all the geeks in the world, a pretty impressive happenstance.Recapping the Kentucky Derby
Recapping the Kentucky Derby - Union Rags should get a job at the airport baggage claim area where he could get paid for sniffing around trouble.Kentucky Derby Betting: Kentucky Derby Rundown
Kentucky Derby Betting. Jay Cronley breaks down the Kentucky Derby post positions and how they impact the runners as you bet on the Kentucky Derby.2012 Kentucky Derby countdown is on
2012 Kentucky Derby. Everything you need to bet on the Kentucky Derby May 5th at Churchill Downs. Handicapping advice and more.Kentucky Derby Handicapping: Derby time
Here are some suggestions and tips about handicapping the Kentucky Derby. Kentucky Derby - 22,000 pounds of trouble
It's never too early to complain about the size of the Kentucky Derby field, 20 horses, a few of whom know how to run correctly.Horse Betting - Step right up
Horse Betting - What's the worst thing about horse racing when it comes to filling a lovely spring afternoon? Losing.Sport report
In a major front page investigation piece Sunday in the New York Times, horse racing is presented as a barbaric endeavor, more like dog fighting than crowning, with dead horses and maimed jockeys prominently displayed throughout the multi-page discussion of the sport.Kentucky Derby - Warming up
Expert pickers, which is to say people who get paid for their opinions on who will win what, see and hear basically the same things and come up with similarly flawed and predictable selections, favorites due to flop, sucker-play long shots, and inside information any halfway decent handicapper could see through a beer glass. A thinking problem
Thinking too much is the number one cause of all the miscalculations in horse racing. Lots of people couldn't wait to bet against Creative Cause at Santa Anita Saturday, preferring instead the antics of a maiden winner, period. This isn't hindsight. This is almost a rule: Take the third place Grade 1 runner over a fast maiden winner.Real Deals - College Basketball
In a team sport like college basketball, what passes for improvement is the reality of playing sorry competition. It's why you see college hoop squads run off a dozen wins in a row and enter a conference tournament with 27 victories and then lose in the semis to a Hardly Anybody.Numbers game - Beyer Figures
This one is about Beyer numbers, the obviously important Racing Form postings that say: Bet Me. Here's the catch. Sometimes, oftentimes, most times, lower Beyer numbers beat higher Beyer numbers.A bright future
A future bet, or investment, locks in a price and a contract date. A contract date is another way of saying a delivery date. People used to deal in future contracts of pork bellies, bacon, basically. If you don't sell the commodity you have bought by a specified date, it can be delivered to the divorce court of your choice.Our Horse - Kentucky Derby Prep Races
There's a local hero element to horse racing in the spring as the Triple Crown races come to mind. There's a team sports feeling to the Kentucky Derby prep races. Speaking of teams, here's what happened in and around the Super Bowl. The game produced some of the best sports action in the history of the game. Numerous experts participated in the nuttiest thing ever in post-game thinking, second-guessing a winner. Mature Moments
Possibly the best lesson to be learned all around was that losers play the next race like it's their last race. Good handicappers approach the next one as a race like any other. Del Mar - California dreamy
The first few days of the Del Mar meet, I've been playing $1 pick three tickets and collecting good payoff with regularity on bets of $37 and the like.Refresher
To beat a decent favorite with two or three horses and inflate the Exactas and tri's to lofty levels, you will need to find in the field some healthy animals whose surroundings are improving this time out Horse Racing - Thanks friends
to speak of the people you meet around horse racing, the young and the puzzled, the old and the overdue, rank beginners and the exasperated alike.Acknowledging pure luck
When a bad beat occurs on a televised event, the camera zooms in on the loser. Agony is photogenic. Winning is taken for granted. Horse Racing - Tools of hope
Numbers don't lie. But in horse racing, certain numbers stretch the truth. The search for a magic number to pop out at the end of a rainbow exemplifies the difficulty of the horse handicapping game.Splish splash at Belmont Stakes
Speed arrested at Belmont
One thing making sense before the Belmont Stakes is that Animal Kingdom can't break any worse than he did in Baltimore, when he appeared to have stage fright. If he breaks nearly that bad, he loses.Live and in person
A Triple Crown race like the Belmont Stakes make a person want to get involved, not with horses, with the tracks; it's enough to make a horse player go to the live races again.Belmont memories and futures
With the Belmont Stakes on deck, here's a decent question: Has horse racing outgrown big cities? Or has it at least grown around them?Preakness - Here comes Cosequin down the lane
Here's what we should have acknowledged, even learned, from the Preakness Stakes. Raw speed is responsible for some of the biggest payoffs at the horse races.Teaming up on handicappers
Nobody closes much at the Belmont distance, at whose stadium plenty of good seats are apt to be available.Sports fans need a Triple Crown winner
Is it any wonder we're looking to a horse to win a Triple Crown and become a national hero?Animal house
Lots of handicapping weasels came from this Kentucky Derby woodpile. Little around the racetrack is more unpleasant than when somebody says the he or she had the winner without having said that he or she was going to play the winner.Animal instincts
Once more, the condition of horse racing appears to have been misdiagnosed. Here's what transpired at the Kentucky Derby. An attendance record was set at Churchill. A dime for your thoughts
Too much talk
From now to the Derby post, the horse player is apt to hear dozens of great-sounding theories, save for the fact that the ones putting forth the plans may have just run zero for 50. Kentucky Derby - Wait until this year
This Kentucky Derby requires special attention. It used to be much harder to lose money on this race.It's a great sport
It happens every May: An intern tells a mainstream media member that the big horse race in Kentucky is due, and soon it's on the air. Horse racing, like boxing, is down for the count. And now, today's strike and drug use news in the "major" sports. Here are 57 reasons why horse racing remains one of the best sports going. Kentucky Derby 137 looking great
This could be one of the best Kentucky Derbies ever because all three running styles are covered by first-class travelers -- The Factor's uncompromising speed that shakes off rabbits like flies, Uncle Mo's powerful stalking mode that's as reliable as the tide, and Dialed In's sweeping, swooping, deep-closing rush, the dramatic stuff of which paupers and the princely are often defined by an examination of a photograph. Tipping (the scales)
The more I win, the more I tip. Don't forget that you don't win what you collect. Bet $50, win $100, the unwritten tip rule stipulates a gratuity of nothing. A two-buck tip on a $100 win is two bucks more than the teller had before you did all the work. A twenty-dollar bill on a $500 collection is extremely generous.Relief
They're always there, ready with some Derby talk, the regulars, be it Winning Colors scoring from up front back in one of the days or, speaking of speed, be it The Factor who just won... Read More.Handicapping rascals
Field of nightmares
Valuing your sanity
Bad is good
Our game today - Horse Races
He only fainted
Basic training
Fame and fortune
Rainbows. Marking a Racing Form
Uncommon cents
Through the Fog
Smarts
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