horses4courses
07-24-2011, 10:08 PM
Came really close to making it to LV next year for the NHC tourney.
Dayum! Excuse me while I vent......
Pretty ho-hum for the first six races. Had a few short priced wins.
Then things started to turn around. WO R10 and DMR R5 gave me 2 winners at over 10-1 each. After 8 races, I'm in second place out of 1385.
The 9th contest race is my bet of the day....Norvsky in DMR R6.
He wins at 8-5, and I'm now the leader.
Not a huge lead, but I need to finish top 3 to go to LV.
The final contest race is the feature at DMR - the San Fernando.
The 2 favorites, at around 9-5, can't beat me - the rest can.
I have to choose between 4 horses, and I throw out one of them.
Avila's horse (#7) hurts me at 6-1, but I don't like him.
The other trio are #1 with Bejarano, the #2 who has shipped from NY and joined Ben Cecil's stable. The last horse I look at is the #8, an Irish bred trained by McAnally who is 10-1. She may want further, but I'm thinking she gets a quickish pace to close into, and Brice Blanc may get a good run out of her late.
Of course, I chose wrong. Took the 8, who wasn't good enough.
Bejarano and the 1 win for fun.....and I finish 9th in the contest.
Oh well, it was a fun run there for a while........... :)
Dayum! Excuse me while I vent......
Pretty ho-hum for the first six races. Had a few short priced wins.
Then things started to turn around. WO R10 and DMR R5 gave me 2 winners at over 10-1 each. After 8 races, I'm in second place out of 1385.
The 9th contest race is my bet of the day....Norvsky in DMR R6.
He wins at 8-5, and I'm now the leader.
Not a huge lead, but I need to finish top 3 to go to LV.
The final contest race is the feature at DMR - the San Fernando.
The 2 favorites, at around 9-5, can't beat me - the rest can.
I have to choose between 4 horses, and I throw out one of them.
Avila's horse (#7) hurts me at 6-1, but I don't like him.
The other trio are #1 with Bejarano, the #2 who has shipped from NY and joined Ben Cecil's stable. The last horse I look at is the #8, an Irish bred trained by McAnally who is 10-1. She may want further, but I'm thinking she gets a quickish pace to close into, and Brice Blanc may get a good run out of her late.
Of course, I chose wrong. Took the 8, who wasn't good enough.
Bejarano and the 1 win for fun.....and I finish 9th in the contest.
Oh well, it was a fun run there for a while........... :)