Lost in the last leg. Came 2nd and last. ****.

Quinella'd the first leg, one out came from last to first in the second, quinella the third leg and then the jockey ran wide and then cut back in which cost a length at least and went down by 1/4L to the winner in the last leg.

Cost me $372 for a $10 outlay.

Does anyone here buy t-graph sheets regularly?

Black Caviar won her 17th straight. just watched the race replay. pretty impressive. i think the jockey (Nolen?) hand-rode her the whole way. and she was opening up the lead at the wire. won by 4 or 5 in easiest of races.

pretty cool to see the track jam packed like it was. looked like lots of kids and families. looked like a fun place. Aussies are ok with me (outside of producing Foster's, which is troubling, very troubling).

No Aussies drink Fosters if it makes you feel better lol. In fact i hardly see it sold here, if at all.

She's pretty remarkable. Look up her TJ Smith win, i was there ;D

Big day at Gulfstream Park tomorrow:


Luck p6:
GP8: 1,5
SA4: 2,4,5
GP9: 5,
SA5: 4,5
GP10: 3,5
SA6: 4,9
Total $48

A couple interesting stands I'll be taking at gulfstream

Race 1: going to throw a 10$ WPS bet on the 3 horse City Strut, going to be sporting a 9lb weight advantage and be sitting on the lead depending on what happens with the 8 horse who could be the issue. Ran much better his last two races, and may have been compromised by the yielding ground last time out.

Race 2: Lots of ways to go in this race, but I like Quick Wit, 2nd back off a layoff, 2nd race with trainer, has shown distance progression first race: 6flng 2nd race 7frlng, so moving up to 7.5 seems natural, He won't be facing a horse quite as strong as Spring Hill Farm in this one, and should be going off at pretty good odds with 2 Pletcher horses in the field.

Race 6: It's Me Mom, a step up in class for this filly considering Pomeroys Pistol and Musical Romance are in the race, but she should be able to get the lead, lets see if she can hold it.

Race 7: Royal Currier: Might be overlooked for the public, as he doesn't hit the big tracks to often, but does his thing in sprint stakes throughout the Northeast. Ramon Dominguez grabs the mount for this race, and he has never failed to hit the board at 6 furlongs.

big racing day at Santa Anita, too.

Grade 3 Santa Ysabel 3YO fillies
Grade 1 Santa Monica 4+ f&m
plus 3 ungraded Cal bred Stakes

oh and there is a 240k carryover in the pick 6. gogogogogo

good luck everyone!

carryover for pick 6 at SA is for tomorrow, i believe.

yeah i think youre right. i think its for sunday. they have the luck pick6 for saturday instead.

good luck

here goes:

GP8 -- 2,5,7,9
SA4 -- 4
GP9 -- 3,5,7
​SA5 -- 5
GP10 -- 3,5,7
SA6 -- 4

$36. singling the SA races with pretty close to chalk. I'm stupid. But, i wasn't in the mood for the triple digit ticket.

It's Me Mom tore that race up. blazing sub 1:09 for 6 panels to win by too many lengths to count.

excited to see Hansen in the 10th at GP. but the track looks kinda like a mess. could still be a good race, though.

also i shipped the 6th with the #11 One Proud Girl @ 8-1 which is the biggest price ive gotten in a goddamn long time. hey, at least its fun, right :-)

Sti1gar - good call with Quick Wit and Its Me Mom, yesterday. solid work there!

wow, interesting Holy Bull Stakes. looked like Hansen didnt break very well and that was probably what cost him. but, Algorithms was very impressive.

EMD opens for works tomorrow , omg omg omg seasons getting closer. I tracked every start made by Washington breds for the month of January, and will post some data from that in a couple days, when I have time to go through it all. I will continue to track Washington Breds racing outside the state for the whole year.


I'm still debating whether or not I want to collect data during the EMD meet, I would like to see how Earnings per start, and other stats differ between state breds and non-state breds in non state restricted races.

Who else tipped their friends a 30/1 racing accumulator and didn't back it themselves?

Major facepalm.

Lock at maywood Thursday nite will be a price.....will release it after I get word in the morning that all systems are a go..

i just watched the 2011 TJ Smith. she gave everyone a good sweet in that one. pretty remarkable closing speed that race.

Feb 2, 2012 Santa Anita Race 7: Trying FIRE IN EXCESS at 12-1 on the line. w.m.l.

Emerald Downs has released the STAKE SCHEDULE for the upcoming meet. Looks to be the same as last year.

One slight change that doesn't bode well for Heart, is that they moved the State restricted Stakes day up to the 9th, last year it was on the 18th.

How is this bad? If it was a week later in the season as it has traditionally been, it forces trainers to decide whether they want to race or just work the horse upto the BC Premier (CAN G3) thats on October 8th at Hastings in Vancouver. This could have possibly deluted the field by a horse or two, and given Heart a better shot Oh well!!!

Noosa Beach was back at the track on wednesday, and I suspect they will follow a similar game plan to last year.

Last year Noosa Beach won the George Royal opening weekend at Hastings 4/22 (will be 4/15 this year) and than ran in the first stakes race of the Emerald Downs season the Governor's Handicap 5/22 (5/20 this year).

He's All Heart has failed miserably in two career starts in the Governor's, finishing 8th in 2010 and 10th in 2011. Maybe its a skipper this year.

That's what I get for betting the hoss owned by my best friend.

Its been a while since i posted up in here. Last year was a losing year... oh well, it happens.. I started a new job so ive been busy with that, but the 3 year old races get my blood flowing.. Well, im taking a shot in the GII Arcadia later today. Theres 2 really nice horses in there, Mr Commons, who crushed on opening day in the Beaufort he did the same in the Ocean Side las summer at delmar. Hes a real nice 1, perhaps the best turf miler in US.. the other nice horse in this race is Pathfork, this guy has won 3 of his 4 lifetime races, in his only loss he was beaten by Frankel, so u cant fault him for that.. The negative to pathfork is hes making his first start in North America, he may need a race or 2, his trainer John Sadler is on record saying hed like to stretch him out to further distances, so id like to think this is a prep for sumthin down the road, but u still have to respect him greatly imo. However I land on the #6 Willyconker in here.. Ive been watching this horse for a while and he gets the acid test today!! Dougy claimed this horse earlier las year and has moved him up the ladder with patience and precision. Im not a real big doug oneil fan, but 1 thing about him, hes excellent at running a horse up the ranks and im pretty sure thats his niche. Morning line is 8/1. Mr C and PF are gonna take loads of money, so its very well possible we could see a nice overlay in here. It race 3 at santa anita. Il b betting the following. Good luck folks and its good to b back.

Santa Anita race 3 saturday. Trying to get 3/1 on my money if he hits the board

$60 win #6

$40 Exacta 8 with 6

$25 Exacta 2 with 6

$6 Exacta 1,3,4 with 6

$3 Exacta 5,7 with 6

$12 Tri 8 with 2 with 6

$8 Tri 2 with 8 with 6

$6 Tri 8 with 1,3,4,5,7 with 6

$3 Tri 2 with 1,3,4,5,7 with 6

$2 Tri 1,3,4 with 2,8 with 6

$1 Tri 1,3,4 with 1,3,4,5,7 with 6

Total $241

Thought for a moment i was gonna b put on the inquiry for the win. I misplayed this. In hindsight i should have bet him to win & played the 8-6 ex hard. It ran 8-6 & the exacta was putrid. I had to pay them to cash it. $5.40 for the $1.

Big Carryover at SA.

"I'm going to go for it honey" - Clark Griswold.

Waiting on scratches, but it seems "getable" to me.

Gulfstream has a large P6 carryover too - 160k. not 350k like SA. good luck, TW and anyone else playing!

sa $0.25 p6

3) 2, 3, 7, 8 /
4) 1, 5, 8 /
5) 4, 5 /
6) 1, 2, 3, 6, 8 /
7) 3 /
8) 12

$30

The second annual Pegasus Horse Sale for two year olds in training is tomorrow. Last year I was able to attend hte preview day but not the sale, this year I attended the preview day (today) and will be at the sale tomorrow.

Last year 17 of hte 22 horses sold (2 outs 3 RNA's) for a total of 633k (37,235 avg) Of those 17 horses 12 made starts.

48starts
6wins
9places
13shows

with 1 stakes win to boot and a total earning of $177,350.

This year there are 30 horses catalogued (4 outs). Two things I noticed this year: First THE weather was far more cooperative! and THERE were a lot more BUYERS checking out the horse, The big local hitters were here and there were also some trainers up from Socal and GG, such as Kathy Walsh.

Pegasus is a rehabilitation/training center owned by Mark Dedomenico, who founded Pro Sports Club, He spent a healthy chunk of money (I believe about 25 million) setting up this operation and building world class facilities right in beautiful Redmond WA (I'm biased! my home city). The facility includes all the modern ammenties, and a 5/8th POLYTRACK training track complete with starter gate (in fact its part of the old gate from Longacres in Renton).

Today all the HIPS (excluding the outs, and 21) galloped around the track twice, powering through the stretch.

Best looking horse: In my opinion I thought HIP 6 looked the best, and looks great on paper and on NICKS. It was the only horse that I noted down as GREAT during the gallop.

One horse that I think is interesting from a local perspective is HIP 28 by Southern Africa a January gelding he has a big frame to him, that he looked like he could grow into. A lot of these horses will race down in California or Kentucky which was hte fcase with most of the horses sold last year. This horse passed through the WTBOA sale for 6k first time, and due to his young unknown sire and questionable breeding could be RELATIVELY cheap at this particular sale.

That said I think he has ample opportunity to make a return this year.

-January foal
- Northwest Race Series (fully Nominated, so he could get a crack at some early 25k restricted stakes)
- Washington Bred (So he is elligible for the Washington Cup (35k race for 2 yr olds to end the year)
The Washington Cup race is usually light on talent as the big 2 year old race to end the meet is two weeks later
- WTBOA Sales incentive program, gets a bonus for breaking his maiden in a MSW at EMD, and is also eligible for a 20k ALLOWANCE later in the meet
- THIS year Pegasus is offering a 20k bonus to the first horse out of the sale to win an unrestricted stakes race at a value of 20k or more.