11-02-05

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Race 9 at Hawthorne, #2. I usually don't give out horses going off under 3-1, but this horse should control the race from start to finish.

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I wouldn't have given this horse out if I'd known he would get bet down to 1-1 (he was 5/2 when I posted this), although I certainly knew it was a possibility that he'd get bet down. The horse had no excuse at all.

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Meadowlands, race 2, keying 1 over 2-3-5-7 in the exacta

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#2 had no excuse. I don't understand why #9 got all the play it did, but it certainly ran well enough, barely missing.

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4th race at Meadowlands, #6, currently 9/2.

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I didn't expect the horse to get off at 9/2, but I was hoping to get better than the 5/2 it ended up at.

After opening a decent lead, it managed to hold on.

$7.20

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6th at Meadowlands, betting #2, currently 4-1.

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Didn't get out well, had to be used hard to get to the lead, and had nothing left in the stretch.

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Hoosier race 10, going with #6, currently 12-1.

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Got bet down to 6-1 late, ran reasonably well, just getting beat out of second, while no threat to the winner.

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Race 8 at Charlestown, betting #5, currently at 5-1. The odds will probably drop a bit.

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No surprise that the horse was bet heavily at the end, closing at 2-1. It battled the other favorite the whole way, got headed in the stretch, and came back to grind out a half-length victory.

$6.20

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Race 9 at Penn, betting #1, currently at 3-1.

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The horse got bet down to 2-1. It went out to the lead, widened on its own entering the far turn, and won easily without urging from the jockey.

$6.40

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Not sure why I put race 9 for Penn National when the upcoming race at that time was race 7. Count it as you like.