Through The Binoculars
By: JOHN PIESEN
As a professional handicapper, I generally make it a practice to ignore hunches. Hunches are for fools. Are they not?
Well, maybe not.
Here are two examples.
Last week, in conjunction with a magazine piece on Fair Grounds, I buzzed jockey Robby Albarado. Alas,
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Speed Ratings, Final Times and Current Condition g
By: Ray Taulbot
We believe that there is no easier or better way to discover the true contenders in a race than by using pace handicapping. At the same time, however, we are the last to suggest that the logical investment is always the horse withthe highest pace rating.
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AMERICAN TURF CLUB LEAD
It certainly is cause for wonder when a horse, after finishing far back of the winner several times in a row, comes out and wins a race. Is it possible there is a hint, somewhere in the running line of its last beaten-off race, that this wakeup is imminent?<
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Seven set for Hawthorne Gold Cup
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Cicero, IL (Sports Network) - Saturday's $500,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup has attracted a field of seven older thoroughbreds. The 1 1/4 mile race takes place five weeks before the Breeders' Cup Classic.
Topping the field are the first two finishers from
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Perfect Drift goes for second Kentucky Cup Classic
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Florence, KY (Sports Network) - Perfect Drift, the 2003 winner of the Kentucky Cup Classic, is the consensus favorite for Saturday's 13th edition of the Turfway Park race. The $350,000 race will be contested on Turfway Park's all-weather Polytrack surface.
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Weekly Television Schedule
September 30
- Horse Racing: Kelso, Oak Leaf, KY Cup Classic, & Yellow Ribbon, 4:00-6:00pm, ESPN
October 3
Weekly Stakes Race Schedule
September 29
- Meadowlands, Cliff Hanger S. (G3), $150,000, 3&up, 8.5f T
- Meadowlands, Somerset Medical Center for Cancer Awareness (G2), $75,000, 4&up, 20f T
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