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.
Visit www.vegasturfandsports to sign up for our expert selections for Del Mar from Joey D.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
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.
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.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
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.
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.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Free Selection For Tuesday From Vegas Turf And Sports
Been very busy over here at Vegas Turf And Sports Lately. We have been overwhelmed with membership sign-ups and going strong in MLB baseball right now, hitting on 4 of the last 5 selections. You can sign up for one of our very affordable plans at: www.vegasturfandsports.com
Tonight we go with the under in the Florida-San Diego game. The total is at 8 under 1.20.
Joey D. will participate in the 2009 Horseplayer World Series at the Orleans Hotel-Casino. Check out the final standings for the qualifyer that got him there on July 4th: http://www.orleanscasino.com/gaming/race-and-sports-book/handicapping-tournaments
We are all proud of him and will be right there with him come Feburary when he takes his shot at the big prize. There is usually about $1 Million bucks in the purse and the winner will get around $300,000, before taxes, of course.
Tonight we go with the under in the Florida-San Diego game. The total is at 8 under 1.20.
Joey D. will participate in the 2009 Horseplayer World Series at the Orleans Hotel-Casino. Check out the final standings for the qualifyer that got him there on July 4th: http://www.orleanscasino.com/gaming/race-and-sports-book/handicapping-tournaments
We are all proud of him and will be right there with him come Feburary when he takes his shot at the big prize. There is usually about $1 Million bucks in the purse and the winner will get around $300,000, before taxes, of course.
Sunday, July 6, 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%
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.
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.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Free Selection From Vegas Turf And Sports
We have three baseball totals going tonight and two horses over at Hollywood Park. We will release one baseball total here as our free play. If you would like to sign up for a membership to receive all of our selections every day, you can go to www.vegasturfandsports.com and check out our member packages. There is something for everyone starting at $15.00 for a weekend package of baseball selections which includes Saturday and Sunday.
We are looking forward to the beginning of the NFL exhibition season and we will be sending out special offers to current members for the entire exhibition and regular season, so look for that in your email inbox coming in the next two weeks. If you would like to be included in our special offer, send an email to: vegasturfandsports@gmail.com.
Going with the over in the Mets-Cardinals game. The total is at 9 with the over at -1.15.
We are looking forward to the beginning of the NFL exhibition season and we will be sending out special offers to current members for the entire exhibition and regular season, so look for that in your email inbox coming in the next two weeks. If you would like to be included in our special offer, send an email to: vegasturfandsports@gmail.com.
Going with the over in the Mets-Cardinals game. The total is at 9 with the over at -1.15.
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