Grantham is interesting at anything close to his 20-1 ML.
Not a bad pattern and comes out of the 1 1/8 Withers where he middle moved wide vs the runaway Chad horse.
Battles on gamely in the lane with the Rebel bomber.
Could get underneath tomorrow at a big number for Maker with Sammy Macho Camacho aboard.
Good Luck,
Joe B.
Hurricane warnings. Lots of high winds and some heavy rain on and off. I\'m thinking the weather will affect the outcome.
Shipsational over Happy Boy Rocket, Classic Causeway and Giant Game.
Nice call
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> Grantham is interesting at anything close to his
> 20-1 ML.
Nice handicapping, Joe.
Hello Joe
Yeah, the Maker colt helped me. Not in a real time monetary way but I will explain.
Having entered the Hawthorne Spring Stakes Showdown, a free contest with a 20 WP format, and having no contest experience, I missed the fact there were more than one contest on some weeks, so I missed out on an obvious $40 when I selected just one winner (Green Light Go) neglecting to use another mare who won at 1/2.
I moved up at least 200 spots with the $180 place mutuel. Maybe millions of people go by, but they all disappear from view.
Sha bop sha bop.
Good luck Gary I moved up as well now 280s having 226
Good luck to you as well!
The email I got from Hawthorne says I am 80th (of 1144) with $328. The leader has $526. Lots of time to make it up.
Say hello if you are in Cicero on a Saturday. I sit in the last row of the cubicle desks with my back facing the track. I am the one with the sheets, which I like to spread out. No one uses anything but the DRF DRP and house Program, so that should make it easy to pick me out.
I still wear my yellow \"Los Angeles\" baseball cap purchased on Venice Beach back in 2012. Yes, it has been washed a few times.
I use to go to the Joliet otb I can't travel much.funny story my wife grew up across sportsman had some stories lol
Go get \'em Gary.
Good Luck,
Joe B.
I was a little surprised when the Beyer came back a rather pedestrian 84 for this race. I then looked at the pace. Things seem to really slow down after 2f.
Raw Beyers
2f: 73
4f: 48
6f: 63
8f: 81
8.5f: 83
Nice workout for the winner.
I\'m not a figure maker. I only play one at Thoro-Graph. :-)
I\'m not, just eyeballing the other races and the times , and watching.
No one asked for anything until pretty late in the race. Cakewalk for the winner, best or not.
A long time ago I wrote a spreadsheet that combined the Beyer methodology with some of the work done by Huey Mahl and Howard Sartin. Remember turn-time?
Turn-time
4f-6f: 91
FWIW, the turn-time is in line with his Beyer top.
Jay Privman did a little rundown of this race at the Daily Racing Form.
Tampa Bay Derby (https://www.drf.com/news/road-2022-kentucky-derby-tampa-bay-derby-analysis)
Craig Milkowski\'s Twitter feed indicates there were timing issues that affected the race:
https://twitter.com/TimeformUSfigs/status/1503073352616972288
I would have never known. I try to avoid anything Jack Dorsey is/was associated with.
I think SPIN WHEEL ran a buried race. I hope to see him spinning his wheels in the winners circle sometime soon. Should be a huge price wherever he turns up.
I think I am like a lot of people in that I want to read about the sport I love.
Most interesting (to me) are the human interest posts. Fairmont1 last is a great post. It reads like a story. Cannot get enough.
I hesitated to give an update on my contest status because I consciously try to avoid writing about myself. The ex\'s \"Self-centered jerk\" criticism hit hard because it is of course true. I hope not the jerk part.
With that out of the way I am pleased to say I moved up 27 spots, from 80th to 53rd. Better still is the money gap went from $198 behind to $155.
There were two races this week and thankfully I posted choices in each. I got the best result when the TAP/Irad colt won the Hutchinson, but got blanked when the Gaines filly ran third in the Irish O\'Brien.
Thanks for the up vote Joe. I need all the friends I can get.
I was just about to ask how you are doing in the contest blindly took that #5 trying to beat the fav and got blanked in the Santa Anita race moved up $94 2 weeks ago I was at the bottom now in 242 place lol
This is my first foray (I love using words for the first time) into the contest world. I hold no false hope. But I was sent picks for the (3/19) Anita card by a previous Big Hair winner, and realize I have as much chance as this guy.
I am distraught the LA Derby is not among the three contest races 3/26. I have a vested interest in the outcome, as in qualifying points.
His name rhymes with Battle N Bowl.
Good luck my first contest as well and good on the points