Interesting Reading

http://betwwts.com/winners_circ/horseracing2.asp

[Silver Charm]

Was a very good read.

Davidowitz is a very smart handicapper and his book Betting Thoroughbreds was one of the best handicapping books ever.

However I do beg to differ on a couple of his points. Go for Wand was ridden by Randy Romero and Bayakoa by Laffit Pincay, the race was going to come down to who would outride who in the last hundred yards. Need I say more.

Unbridled Elaine was trained by David Vance a Ky based guy if there ever was one. She was led over that afternoon by Dallas Stewart who inherited the mare a week before the race. She may have run at Belmont but she was not a Belmont Park based mare.

The Euros will own the grass races, for one simple reason, they are faster. If American-based Lure was still around he would own the Mile. Wait a minute Lure is in there his name is Leroytheanimal. (sic)

Also have a question and do not really have the time to think about it. How many Jockey Club Gold Cup winners have won the Classic. Cigar and Skip Away were two, I\'ll bet there were not that many more, maybe as few as one.

[kev]

I didn\'t read alot of that, but one thing I did see where he talked about the 10.0F at BEL the turn they start on not being that big of a factor for ex. he gave UNBRIDLED winning the BC in 1990, where he started in post 14, thing he did say was UNBRIDLED saved ground all the way into the 2nd turn, hugged the rail to win. Now TIZNOW was 5w5w in that race in 2001. But the 2nd place horse was 4w5w, 3rd was 4w4w, 4th was 4w4w, APTITUDE was 6w7w I think that was the widest any horse has ever been in the past 6 years in any BC race. Only one horse hugged the rail that year ORIENTATE 1w1w.

[NoCarolinaTony]

Orientate won at Arlington in 2002. second was Thunderello.

I owned that exacta.

NC Tony