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One big winner and a slew of participating contenders in exotics made up the first two days of the holiday weekend of harness racing. The horses-to-watch list was filled with in-the-money finishers…
Rick Hausman had a busy Sunday: drop his daughter off at college and play the Pacific Classic Stakes day card from Del Mar.And, oh, yeah: in between those big events he hit…
At one time, the goal of most racetrack gamblers — if they had a goal at all — was to pick winners. Read any handicapping book published before Al Gore invented the…
Pace handicapping is actually a two-step process. The question is not “How fast will they go,” but (in the case of front runners), “How fast can this horse go and still win?”“A…
Playing 25,000 combinations in the Pick 6 doesn’t guarantee victory (believe me, I know), but it does allow you to be fast and loose with the opinions.The question is, do you try…
Derek Simon and Ed DeRosa discuss last weekend’s Pacific Classic and Travers Stakes, as well as Palace Malice’s poor Internet etiquette. Ed also gives his take on proper “twerking” technique.In the U.…
The results of this weekend’s races–despite the favorite rolling in the Pacific Classic Stakes and an upset in the Travers–did nothing to change my thoughts on the championship picture for Horse of…
My race selections on Twitter can best be summed by the Toby Keith song, “I Love This Bar”: “We’ve got winners, we’ve got losers…”Sometimes we have both in the same race as…
A mildly successful harness-betting weekend resulted from our Thursday blog, though certainly not one of our more prosperous efforts. This weekend’s choices spilled over into Sunday night, which is why this blog…
I’m not one for conspiracy theories.Despite the recent CIA admission that Area 51 does, indeed, exist, I don’t believe that little green guys from a distant planet are playing an extraterrestrial version…
The Travers Stakes is one of those races where there is an onus to have A PICK.When someone asks you, “Who is going to win the Grade 1, $1-million Travers Stakes on…
The winner of this year’s Travers Stakes has a good chance to become the first champion three-year-old male to win the midsummer classic since Summer Bird in 2009 and just the second…
One thing I’ve tried to do lately is think of wagers as opportunities. If I’m not overjoyed at the chance to enter into a particular pool then it’s not worth my money. Different…