Through The Binoculars
By: JOHN PIESEN
How 'bout some kudos for Madison Avenue!
If you have caught the radio commercial currently running for the Belmont Stakes, you'd know what I mean. The spot hails the Belmont Stakes as the "test of the champion" which is no doubt true, if a mile and a half is the criteria.

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Race to Race Odds Patterns
By: Ray Taulbot
Knowing that 90 percent of all racegoers do not do any serious handicapping, it is not surprising that so many readers have written ATM to request what amounts to a "magic angle" formula. What they want to be able to do is to go tothe track, buy a program or Dai

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Are the odds on your side?
By: RAY TAULBOT
The following lead is an informative article by Ray Taulbot.
Every racing fan of any real experience knows that the prices their winners pay is of vital importance to their financial success. However, various handicap

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Process of elimination for the Belmont Stakes
By: by Don Agriss, Horse Racing Editor, Sports Network
Elmont, NY (Sports Network) - No Kentucky Derby winner. No Preakness Stakes winner. No Santa Anita Derby winner. And no Blue Grass Stakes winners. Even though a nice size field will run in the Belmont Stakes, most of the best known three-year-olds are missing.

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Racing Hall of Fame inductees announced
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Saratoga Springs, NY (Sports Network) - The 2006 class of racing's Hall of Fame has been announced and the three inductees represent old-time thoroughbred racing.
Hall of Fame committee chairman Edward Bowen announced on Tuesday that trainer Carl Ha

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Barbaro and Prado reunited
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Kennett Square, PA (Sports Network) - Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro and jockey Edgar Prado got reacquainted Tuesday morning at the New Bolton Center, where the colt is recovering from a life-threatening injury suffered at the Preakness Stakes.
Prado

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Weekly Television Schedule
June 8
- Today at Belmont Park (Hill Prince Stakes), 5:00-6:00pm, ESPN2
June 9
Weekly Stakes Race Schedule
- June 3
- Belmont Park, Sands Point S. (G3), $100,000, 3yo f, 9f T
- Canterbury Park, Hoist Her Flag S, $40,000, 3&up f&m, 6f
- Churchill Downs, Aristides Breeders'

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Distance Switch Debate
By: Ray Taulbot
Every trainer knows that
when his horse is capable of leading or running close to the pace by the time the field
reaches the pre-stretch or stretch call, the horse is razor sharp. However, he also knows
that frequently such an effort takes a g

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Distance Change or Distance Switch
By: Ray Taulbot
Almost every month we receive letters from readers asking
substantially the same question, "Can you provide an angle, or combination of angles,
not involving any kind of handicapping that will keep us ahead of the game? We don't mind
waiting for good invest

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The Race After the Cut-Back Yields Value
By: Andy Plattner
A frequent dilemma for handicappers is how to deal with a horse that is cutting back in distance from its last race. There are two main schools of thought here: one is that any horse racing at a shorter distance will be more than fit enough to negotiate this distance; the

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