BETTING TIPS
Let’s go back in time to the winter of 2017. Tampa Bay Downs. January 25th. Todd Pletcher sent a 3yo Bodemeister colt up from South Florida to break his maiden. That colt, Always Dreaming, would go on to win the Kentucky Derby….and nothing else. Always Dreaming was retired this week. Many have asserted he was…
Thursday’s $140,000, Grade 0, Race 6 Stakes at Kentucky Downs, also known as a N1X, drew a field of 12 with four on the AE list. And before you start planning your wagers and tournament plays, just erase from your mind all hopes and dreams centered around getting anywhere remotely close to the 15-1 morning…
While nothing is etched in stone, Good Magic missing the Breeders’ Cup seems like a foregone conclusion at this point. And with his poor effort in the Travers, his Chad Brown barn mate Gronkowski doesn’t appear quite as live as he did, say, immediately after the Belmont. He’ll get another chance to prove he can…
Let’s go back in time to August 11th at Saratoga. Race 1. I had decided the night before that Bootlegger was going to be the play that started off the day for me. But in listening to Gabby Gaudet’s pre-race analysis, I happened to catch her comment that Bootlegger didn’t run particularly well over a…
This website has been up and running for about 10 days now. I still don’t know where I plan to take it. It’s part personal blog, part handicapping resource, and hopefully someday part community meeting place. I’ve been playing the horses for over 20 years, and like you I love this game. And as I…
Whether you are playing in the BCBC and/or NHC contests on Horseplayers, or just trying to make a few bucks on your day off, there is a horse you might want to pay extra attention to in the 7th race at Woodbine. Call Me Wally ran a ho-hum 4th at this class level on the…
Just because Saturday was another winning day for LoneSpeed readers does not mean we can’t try to learn from our mistakes and figure out why we missed what we missed, right? Let’s dig in. The costliest mistake of the day was missing Sippican Harbor in the Spinaway. I may not have used her had I…
When you try to get the kids to do just ONE more video, and 20 takes later you realize it’s 7:00pm on a Friday and they are ready for the movie and popcorn you promised them, and then you realize you haven’t shaved in four days and shouldn’t be on camera, this is the result.
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For me, deciding how to bet the Woodward Stakes at Saratoga on Saturday was easy. Yeah, I watched some replays and did the usual handicapping thing. But in the end, it came down to what you might call a series of historical angles. I’ll elaborate as we go on. I think the most likely winner…
At LoneSpeed, we respect favorites but try to beat them with value plays whenever we can. And in Saturday’s Late Pick 4 sequence at Saratoga starting with Race 9, there are three horses we like as possible upsetters at a price. Race 9- The Saranac Raging Bull is a very logical favorite and certainly appears…
