Through The Binoculars
By: JOHN PIESEN
Friday's Delta Jackpot
On Wednesday evening at Delta Downs in downtown Vinton, La., jockey Tracy Hebert rode three winners on the 10-race card. For those scoring at home, the total mutuel handle for the 10-race card was $23,000.
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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 handicapping
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AMERICAN TURF CLUB LEAD
By: JOE GIRARDI
The weekend of November 25th and 26th was the last weekend on the main track at Aqueduct until late March or early April of 2007. The races will be conducted on Aqueduct’s inner track which was designed to handle the harsh winter weather in the
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Russell Baze ties Pincay for jockey record
By: SPORTS NETWORK
San Mateoe, CA (Sports Network) - Hall of Fame jockey Russell Baze has equaled another Hall of Fame rider, Laffit Pincay, Jr., for career victories. Baze recorded his 9,530th lifetime win Friday afternoon at Bay Meadows.
The 48-year-ol
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Showing Up captures Hollywood Derby
Inglewood, CA (Sports Network) - Odds-on favorite Showing Up came wide off the turn for home and powered his way to a decisive victory in Sunday's $500,000 Hollywood Derby at Hollywood Park. The colt ran the 1 1/4 miles on the turf in 1:59.35.
Showi
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Weekly Television Schedule
December 5
- Wire to Wire, 2:00-2:30pm, ESPN2
December 6
- Wire to Wire, 5:30-6:00am, ESPN2
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Weekly Stakes Race Schedule
- December 1
- Delta Downs, Boyd Gaming's Delta Jackpot S. (G3), $1,000,000, 2yo, 8.5f
- Delta Downs, Boyd Gaming's Delta Princess S., $300,000, 2yo f, 8f
- Delta Downs, Sam'
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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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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
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The Professional Way to Play
By: Ray Taulbot
If racing fans could somehow be persuaded to forsake their unrealistic attitudes toward horse racing and adopt the professional"s down-to-earth position, they would soon discover that winning is much more fun than losing.
This writer entertains
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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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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
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The Professional Way to Play
By: Ray Taulbot
If racing fans could somehow be persuaded to forsake their unrealistic attitudes toward horse racing and adopt the professional"s down-to-earth position, they would soon discover that winning is much more fun than losing.
This writer entertains
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Repeater Power Plays
By: Ray Taulbot
Ask yourself a simple question: Do you have the temperament to lose nine out of 10
plays—even if the tenth is a winner at a $30.00 mutuel? Most horseplayers can't stomach
the idea of a zero-for-nine streak.
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An Angle That Gets an "A" for Excellence
By: Ray Taulbot
THE A ANGLE DEALS WITH A HORSE'S last two races; it is composed
of a good next-to-last race in which the horse finished in-the-money, followed by an easy
conditioning race last start.
The following running lines o
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