Through The Binoculars
By: JOHN PIESEN
THE MAN OF THE YEAR
No one outside of racing pays much attention to Eclipse Awards. In fact, quick:
Who was Horse of the Year last year?
But this year, I am willing to make an exception. As far as I know, there is no Eclip
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AMERICAN TURF CLUB LEAD
By: RAY TAULBOT
The following is an informative article by Ray Taulbot. Next we will take a look at the Travers stakes, good luck!
Knowing that 90 percent of all racegoers do not do any serious handicapping, it is not surprising that
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Searching for a Sound Investment
By: Ray Taulbot
Racing fans could undoubtedly improve their winning percentage by confining their selections to horses that are physically sound. Racing today is cluttered with unsound and partially unsound horses, which tends to complicate the work of making solid selections.
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Bernardini and Bluegrass Cat meet for the first time
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Saratoga Springs, NY (Sports Network) - Preakness Stakes winner Bernardini and Haskell Invitational champ Bluegrass Cat will take on one another for the first time in Saturday's $1 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. The "Mid-Summer Derby" will be contested at the di
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Things continue to go well for Barbaro
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Kennett Square, PA (Sports Network) - Doctor Dean Richardson, chief of surgery at the George D. Widener Large Animal Hospital, reports that Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro remains comfortable in the Intensive Care Unit.
"Barbaro is doing well on both
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Weekly Television Schedule
August 26
- SportsCenter at Saratoga: Travers Stakes, 5:00-7:00pm, ESPN
August 29
Weekly Stakes Race Schedule
August 26
- Arlington Park, Arlington Breeders' Cup Sprint, $150,000, 3&up, 6f
- Del Mar, Del Mar Breeders' Cup Mile H. (G2), $400,000, 3&up, 8f T
- Fairmount Park, St. L
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Another Addition to Your OTB Arsenal
By: Ray Taulbot
Many readers who wish to take advantage of off-track betting and simulcasting have written to ATM asking for a method which will enable them to make decentselections with the least expenditure of time and effort. Accordingly, this month we areoffering a method we gave our reader
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Are The Odds On Your Side?
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 handicapping writers have caus
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Betting Odds Angle
By: Ray Taulbot
Circumstances alter cases. A need for the price rule we are going to write about is the circumstance that alters much of what we have written about price rules in past articles.
Every racing fan of any real experience knows that the
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Double Action Angle
By: Ray Taulbot
This angle was originally devised for the
purpose of getting a price on a fit, well-meant horse. Its one weakness, however, is that
horses frequently are dropped in class or claiming price for reasons other than a trying
effort next start. This being
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Money Management Fundementals
By: Ray Taulbot
We are keenly aware that what one player considers a good winning percentage may not
appear very good to another player. Likewise, what one bettor considers good odds maybe regarded by another bettor as something less than sat
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Improve Your Win Percentage
By: Ray Taulbot
Most men capable of thinking will agree that ignorance is the most costly element in human existence.
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Quick Picks for the Casual Player
By: Ray Taulbot
It isn"t difficult to present a method that will produce good prices,
but it is an exacting task to find such a method that also produces a
reasonable winning percentage. Most diff
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Speed Prep Angle
By: Ray Taulbot
The trainer who is interested in turf speculation dislikes nothing more than to have one of his fit horses
go postward at a short price.From his point of view, such a situation represents nothing more than a
was
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The Freshened Repeater Angle
By: Ray Taulbot
Fall racing provides many more opportunities for the angle player than any other
season of the year. We suppose this is because many trainers get the feeling that they
are running out of time and can't affo
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When Figures Alone Are Worthless
By: Ray Taulbot
"Wishing won"t do the job but working will." When the moss of time is scraped from the surface of
this old saying one discovers gold beneath its greenish surface.
The mere yearning for something will not produce the desired attainment of a given goal. Success in any field depend
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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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Weighing In On Class And Condition
By: Ray Taulbot
Every turf investor of any real experience knows that
class is one of the two most important factors in the production of winning selections.
Condition, of course, is the other. These two factors combine to produce more winners than
any other two factors in the hand
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Victory with the "V" Angle
By: Ray Taulbot
Every trainer in the business
knows that the success of the individual horse depends to a great extent upon
its current physical condition than it does upon any other single factor.
Therefore, the trainer who backs his own horse takes every pre
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