Free Selection From Vegas Turf And Sports

We will release one of our Southern California race picks here today; in the final race today over at Santa Anita, the eighth race, we are going with number 4, Wolfgang. This one is listed at 10-1 on the morning line and looks like a strong contender in this event.

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Sluggish Start To NBA Season

To be perfectly honest, the beginning of the NBA season has not been that great over here. We have gone 11-10 so far this season, which is not even close to being up to par for us at vegasturfandsports.com. We have gone 73-48 in the NBA since 1-1-2008 though, which is just over 60 percent.

Seems to be a season of change with all of the coaches moving around the league. The Knicks are a much faster paced team this year with Mike D'antoni as their coach. But the other night, they went into San Antonio and were stymied by the Spurs defense. The Spurs surprisingly, have been pretty horrible so far this year as they seem to have slowed to a crawl and are missing Manu Ginobili's spark in the lineup as he is out with an injury.

The Suns with new head coach Terry Porter, have slowed their pace somewhat but it seems to depend on who they are playing. The Lakers look like the team to beat this year as they have been crushing teams with their defense so far this season. The champion Celtics are also starting right where they left off last year and are winning close games with their defense.

Our numbers will get better as more games are played, that we can be sure of. We will tread lightly and watch and wait to pounce on the bookie. December will be a very good month over here, so stay tuned.

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Oak Tree Free Selection Thursday September 25th

Our free selection ran second yesterday but our members had the winner of the last race Cat Brulay, who won and paid $12.60, not a bad way to start off the Oak Tree meeting. Today's free selection is North Fork in the seventh race.

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We are also going strong right now in the NFL going 4-2 last weekend. You can also sign up for NFL picks on our site for a very affordable price..

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Ray Evans Returns

Our baseball expert, Ray Evans has returned from his vacation and is back on the free selections page of our website..Go to http://www.vegasturfandsports.com/FreeSelections.html and click on "Free Selections". He has posted three picks for today and we also have a few free NFL selections going..


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Free Selection Page Now Up

Now you can go directly to the website and check out the daily free selections. Go to www.vegasturfandsports.com and click on the "Free Selections" link near the bottom of the home page.

Our baseball man Ray Evans is on a roll right now. Tonight's picks have gone 2-0 so far with San Diego up 5 to 1 in the bottom of the 7th inning as a huge underdog of plus 2.20. Another perfect night? We will see..

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Free Baseball Play For Sunday

Our free selection for today is the under in the Mets-Phillies game. The total is at 9.5 under minus 1.15.

With the NFL season opening on Thursday, all systems are go for a great season over here. We have six strong plays opening week and will begin releasing those to our paid subscribers come Thursday morning.

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Free Selections From Vegas Turf And Sports

Today, we will release a couple of baseball plays here. We are taking the under in the Mets-Phillies game where the total is at 9 even. The other pick is the under in the Oakland A's vs. L.A. Angels game where the total is at 7.5 under -minus 1.15 .

We are extremely busy gearing up for the upcoming NFL season. The membership signups are pouring in for the NFL, everybody's favorite sport to bet on.

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NFL Preseason- Free Selection For Saturday

The information is beginning to flow here on NFL matchups. The Miami Dolphins will host the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday, with the line at Miami minus 3. We are going with the home team Dolphins in this one laying the points. We hear that the Dolphins are going to go all out to win this one. Lay the three.

Miami Dolphins Minus 3

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Del Mar Thursday Free Selection

Yesterday's freebie came through going wire to wire and paying $6.80, we'll take it. This meet so far has been a tough one to say the least. I think that trainers are a huge key at Del Mar. You have to be in tune with their moves and intention in specific races.

Today, we will go with a horse in the third race named Tribal Mischief. Let's make it two in a row!

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Free Selection From Vegas Turf And Sports

Today's free selection is a baseball total again. The Phillies and Mets square off in an early Thursday game with Moyer and Perez pitching. The total is at 9.5 under -1.30 and we are jumping on the under before it moves to 9 as it has in some places already.

We have two horses going today at Del Mar for our members at http://www.vegasturfandsports.com/. We have had a few nice winners over at the seaside oval since the meet started last Wednesday, and are showing a slight profit with flat bets. Seems that the number one handicapping factor down there is trainer angles and the longer the meet goes, the better we will get at uncovering nice winners at juicy prices.

Del Mar Opens With Record Crowd

There were over 43,000 people at Del Mar yesterday on opening day, a new record. I was watching to see how the track was playing and after the first race, I thought that it was going to be like last year. In the 1 mile event on the Polytrack, two horses sped away from the field and burned each other up, allowing the closers to come like a giant wave from the Pacific through the stretch as the two frontrunners tired badly.

I think that it was just too fast an early pace because in the ninth and final race of the day, a maiden claiming race, the winner went straight to the front and led all the way. Closers bias? Not sure yet as one day of racing is not enough to really come to any conclusion. The final times for the races on the Poly were slow, but the early fractions were not too bad. We are going to have to see some more races to acertain whether there is any type of bias present. Of course, we will attempt to take advantage of anything we do notice as far as surface is concerned.

We had a total of five plays yesterday winning with two. Our 4th race selection Carona Time would up dead-heating for the win after a very wide trip into the stretch. Carona Time paid $5.40 to win. The other winner was a good one, Dixie Chatter in the eighth race, the second division of the Oceanside Stakes. Dixie Chatter paid $15.00.

We look to have at least three solid plays a day over at Del Mar. Sign up for a membership package at www.vegasturfandsports.com.

Del Mar Opens Tomorrow!

I cannot say whether this time of year is better or the day after Christmas when Santa Anita opens is, but I for one am sure happy to see the southern California circuit moving down to Del Mar starting tomorrow. There is no place like the seaside oval, and probably never will be although I have never been to Saratoga so I can't say for sure.

I remember being at Del Mar as a kid and seeing Bill Shoemaker walking by after the races along with Don Pierce, Jerry Lambert among others. Those were great days, the late sixties and early seventies. There was a young rider named Rudy Rosales who was tearing it up back then. Wonder what ever happened to him?

Tomorrow will give some kind of indication as to how the track will be playing after last year's complaints from some of the horsemen about the heat causing problems for their horses. They have a wax element in the Polytrack that begins to melt down with excessive heat. They say they have rectified the situation for this year's meet. We will wait and see. Last year the track was more favorable to closers because the track was very tiring to frontrunners. We will attempt to take advantage of any bias that we can spot when making our selections, and you should be too.

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Free Selection Friday

Our freebie did not come through yesterday as the Mets lit it up late sending the game over the total. Our members went 3 for 4 though, making a small profit for the day.

Visit http://www.vegasturfandsports.com/ for more information on signing up for a membership. We offer affordable plans for as little as $20.00. We are plus 18.55 units so far this MLB season and on a 11-4 run since the beginning of July. Overall in 2008 we are at 64.1% winners. A very profitable year so far. We are looking forward to the NFL season and will be announcing our special handicapping packages and prices in the coming weeks for football.

Today, we will release one of our plays here as a free selection. Going with the over in the Cardinals-Pirates game. The total is 9 and the over is minus 1.15.

Vegas Turf And Sports Free Selection

Today we have four MLB games going over at Vegas Turf And Sports and we will release one here as our free selection. Go to www.vegasturfandsports.com to sign up for one of our handicapping packages to take advantage of all of our selections.

We are on a 7-2 run right now in baseball totals!

Our free selection for Thursday is the Giants-Mets under 8.5 -1.15

Our free selections are hitting at 63.71% and are plus 33.55 units overall since 1/1/2008.

Free Selection From Vegas Turf And Sports

We will release a baseball total here today. Going with the over in the Pirates and Brewers game. The total opened at 9 but has been bet up to 9.5. Take the over.


Pittsburgh-Milwaukee Over 9.5 -1.15

Free Selections Record: 70-40-3 Or 63.63%

Orleans Hotel July 4th Qualifying Handicapping Tournament-What A Day!

Friday the Fourth was a great day for the crew over here. I entered my first "real" thoroughbred handicapping tournament over at the Orleans Hotel. It was the Firecracker Qualifyer and it was very enjoyable and to say the least, very exciting! The entry fee was $100 and the idea was to finish in the top five to receive a free entry into the Horse Player World Series in 2009 where the payoffs can be huge. The format was to select 12 races with a mythical $20 win and $20 place bet and your total mutuel returns were added up to form your point total.

I knew going in that I would need somewhere between 1100 and 1500 points to have a chance so the handicapping strategy is a little different than in your every day approach because you have to look for horses with a good chance of winning at a very nice price. The first race that I selected for the contest proved to be the beginning of an emotional roller-coaster of a day. I used a first time starter with breeding that suggested that he may like the slop over at Churchill Downs where it was raining heavily and he came in and paid $21.40 and $11.40, good for 328 points. I knew if I could get two or three more of those in, I would cash and qualify for the big one. I stuck to my guns for the next hour or so using my original selections which were going off at nice odds, but kept running second and third by small margins mostly with 10 to 1 shots and higher. This was making the rest of the morning frustrating to put it mildly, but those place mutuels were good and they were adding to my point total which had grown to 516.0.

As the afternoon rolled along, some of my initial selections were getting bet down to unacceptable odds so I was looking for something that would get me one more huge point payoff. The sixth at Hollywood was coming up, a maiden race and I noticed that there was a first timer in there with Richard Migliore riding. After seeing that this horse was almost 20-1 and that the rest of the field was beatable due to unimpressive Beyers for the level and some other angles that I use in maiden races, I took a shot with Bella Dancer and "The Mig".

Going 5 1/2 furlongs, Richie broke this horse well from the number two post and gained the lead on the backstretch and she slowly edged clear from the favorite and began to open up in the stretch. What a moment as he drew away to win by almost six lengths. I did not hear anyone else yelling as loud as I was and of course, I was hoping that I was the only one that had her in the contest. The horse had gone off at 23-1 and paid $48.60 to win and $16.80 to place. The contest had a rule as far as capping anything over 20-1 after the first $2.00 of the bet, but it gave me an additional 594.6 points, bringing my total up to 1110.6.

I had one more selection going. It was in the Flawlessly Stakes. The horse was Ginger Pop and she was going up against Lethal Heat and several other exceptional fillies but she looked to me as though she could pull it off at 9-1. She finished second after running a great race behind Starry Pursuit and paid $9.80 to place making my final tally 1208.6.

I wound up finishing third in the contest and qualifying for the World Series, which was my goal for the day. It was a great event, very intense and a great learning experience along with one helluva ride on a wave of emotions. The folks over at the Orleans race book are first class and treated us all very well and the facilities are excellent over there for playing the horses.

See you at the World Series in February of 2009!

Joey D.

Online Sports Handicapping Services And Websites

Wow! After recently deciding to publish a site on the web to market my services, I have notice while checking out the competition, that most of these "handicapping" sites are just a ripoff. I have read reviews on the different cappers and their sites, and it seems that 85% of what I read was negative. Why go through the trouble of handicapping games if all you care about is marketing and B.S. to sell your picks? Hmmm..maybe that is the problem, some of these "handicappers" do not even bother to actually provide the service that they advertise, they just try to market their name or theme, and hope for the best as far as picking games or horses for their customers.

I have worked in a non-related industry in recent years. It is a service-based type of business in which you market your products and services to people and businesses, hoping to keep them as customers long term. Why go through the effort of getting customers, only to provide shoddy service, lose them and the income that they provide and have them leave unhappy and remorseful?There are some sites out there that have a place for people to go in and post reviews. Why would you risk the chance of being labled a ripoff "service"?

Why not just provide the best possible service that you can at an affordable price and build a large clientele? I would rather have 200 happy customers at a low price than 20 unhappy customers at a ridiculous price who will just leave anyway and possibly spread the word about you online and by word of mouth.All you can do is to try and put your best effort forth when handicapping. The customer should realize that the idea is to win money over the long run and not what happened yesterday or last week. I think that a handicapping service could have a long and profitable life in business if they just followed that theory instead of just trying to "get their money" and move on to the next "live one". My site-www.vegasturfandsports.com, is still under construction, I will be concentrating on that over the coming weeks, but will still try to post a free selection here once in awhile.

If you are a handicapper yourself who may be interested in having your own website to market your service, I have a good friend who will set you up with your own site and help you get started and also provide all of the support services to maintain your site so that all you have to worry about is picking winners. Visit: www.handicappingwebsites.com

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Free Sports Pick From Vegas Turf And Sports

Grabbed another win yesterday with the Twins-Padres staying under the total of 8. This pushed our record to 67-38-3 on our Free Selection blog. We are at plus 27.90 units here with a winning percentage of 63.80. Not bad, especially for free. Go to www.vegasturfandsports.com if you would like to see all of the packages that we offer and take advantage of the full slate of picks, every day. We have some strong plays coming at Hollywood Park tomorrow..Gold Cup day.

Today, we are going with the under in the interleague matchup of Atlanta and Toronto. The total is at 9 under 1.20.

Free Selection From Vegas Turf And Sports

Our members went one for three over at Hollywood yesterday but the winner, Tracker Jack in the sixth race paid $14.40, more than enough to make a profitable day of it. Visit www.vegasturfandsports.com for more information about signing up for our handicapping services which are very affordable.

Today's free selection is the under in the Minnesota-San Diego game. The Twins knocked Greg Maddux around last night scoring 7 runs in 5.2 innings pitched. We think today's game will be a different story with Baker and Banks slated to start. The total is at 8 under 1.25. Recommendation: Under

Free Selections So Far: 66-38-3 (63.46%) Plus 26.9 Units

Free Selection For Wednesday June 25th

We have three strong plays over at Hollywood today and will release one here as our free selection. Go to www.vegasturfandsports.com to take advantage of one of our member packages which are very affordable.

In today's first race, we are going with Helmsgold, number six. He was just edged last time out by one of our winners-Mikey Bones. Helmsgold actually had the lead very late in the race and Mikey Bones came back on him to win. This is a perfect spot for Helmsgold today, and he should prevail and get the day started on a winning note.

We are on a 11-4 run in baseball right now. We have two to three plays every day in baseball over at www.vegasturfandsports. You can try us for 30 days of baseball selections, if you like, for only $99.