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@mariner4life said in Rough tips and other bets...:
It's like I'm watching Chataqua!
I am bedazzled by this New York Central finish in the Saudi Sprint, and have now watched it at least a dozen times. The proverbial ”finding a different gear” and “coming from the clouds to win.”
One detail is transfixing me, and I’m hoping somebody who knows more about the sport can explain to me. What is going on here...?
Focus on the winner, the grey with red silks. Ortiz comes off the rail and edges out sharply to about four wide at the top of the straight. He gives the grey three hard whacks to straighten him out and get going. Somewhere in his momentum the grey seems to get spooked — is it another horse? Crowd noise? Ortiz giving him the stirrups or whispering in his ear?? He’s about 10 to 15 lengths back.
At the 51st/52-sec mark and for the next two seconds the horse throws his head up side-to-side back-and-forth then seems to stumble lose stride and misstep, then recovers and comes out of it exploding with an entirely different galloping stride. Check the hooves before and after he throws his head. Is the jockey trying to get him to change stride? Is the horse fighting the jockey? I thought for a second Ortiz might lose control, but looked mostly unfazed. Whatever happened there, at that point he wasn’t in the race but caught lightning.
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Went back and watched Chataqua winning. the 2016 TJ Smith is great, around the whole field
but the 2017 version is something else. At the 300 he's gone. At the 200 he has no chance. Then..
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@Hooroo said in Rough tips and other bets...:
Solomon in Race 2 Riccarton today. 6 horse field and I think he is the only one in that field to have run a sub 1:10 on that course. Track is a good 3 which is perfect for him and he's paying $5. I think that is reasonable value.
and we were able to keep Jasmine on
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@JK they have started the try-scoring one like they did in the RWC again too (may have been doing it, but today is first time I saw it)
Bet of $30 or more for anyone to score a try, and get $5 BB for every try scored in match...although this week unsure any will be try-fests.
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@taniwharugby said in Rough tips and other bets...:
@JK they have started the try-scoring one like they did in the RWC again too (may have been doing it, but today is first time I saw it)
Bet of $30 or more for anyone to score a try, and get $5 BB for every try scored in match...although this week unsure any will be try-fests.
Yeah saw that. I always play the NBA first buckets bonus bet one. Yesterday got a $28 bonus bet which I turned in to just under $600. The fav lost tho so didnt get my $20 stake back. Was smashing the womens cricket supersixes one too. Free bonus bets even if they were only hitting 2 to 4 sixes a game.
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my six bonus bets from saturday have dwindled to 2, as my country roughies just haven't come good for me...
For saturday i have early bets on Loving Gabby and Harlem, as i expect both to be in with a good chance, and both to come in
I also have a futures bet i had forgotten about with Melody Bell on the All Star Mile for $9
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Some Do back at Alex Park tomorrow night in R2. Listed Sires Stakes race for mares. She's capable enough and has drawn inside the hot favourite, so hopefully we actually see some gate speed tomorrow night or at least lands reasonably handy. My good mate is in town so we'll watch together, but we've never watched a winning effort from one of our horses together (in a tote race at least) so that is overdue to change.
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@Smudge haha i love "I'm due!"
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@mariner4life said in Rough tips and other bets...:
@Smudge haha i love "I'm due!"
We've only watched a race together maybe 10 times out of all of our horses' combined starts of about 80 starts over the last 15 years, so we haven't given ourselves a huge chance...
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@Chris-B said in Rough tips and other bets...:
@Smudge Is it just me or has Some Do had a bit of a rough deal with wide draws in recent times?
Yes and no. The last couple of races have been under Preferential Barrier Draw conditions, which means the higher-rated runners are given the worst draws. It's another form of handicapping.
But yeah, she hasn't had a lot of love on the draw front outside of that.
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Did a bit of work early but had her chance in the straight. Battling 4th. No excuses really. Maybe she's a bit tired - who knows.
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Debacle.
Bostonian at $10s is the only reason it's not the worst day ever
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Looking back at the day so far and...
32 runners on the short list
12 winners - best Bostonian, sangria, fifty stars
11 places (but not all runners backed to place)
3 trifectasMissed a 4 leg multi on nonpaer at morphetville meaning it’s was a non payer
8 out of 9 on my place multi and fingers crossed for the last -
The guaranteed Empire 6 jackpot today (Sunday) is a million dollars. Were these robbers a day early? Did they know the cash for the jackpot was being delivered?? I see movie possibilities. Love this New York Post headline.
Armed gunmen swipe ‘a lot of money’ in Aqueduct Racetrack heist
Two guys cleaned up big at Aqueduct Saturday night — robbing the Queens racetrack at gunpoint and making off with as much as a quarter-million dollars.
The brazen bandits, who were being sought Sunday morning, pulled the heist at around 10 p.m. Saturday, some four hours after the tenth and last race of the day, swiping “a lot of money,” according to an Aqueduct employee.
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Armed gunmen swipe 'a lot of money' in Aqueduct Racetrack heist
Two guys cleaned up big at Aqueduct Saturday night — robbing the Queens racetrack at gunpoint and making off with as much as a quarter-million dollars. The brazen bandits, who were being sought...
And how’s this for opportunism, using a Covid-19 panic for cover:
“A police spokeswoman told The Post that the two robbers wore surgical masks and that the robbery occurred at the racetrack, not at the adjacent Resorts World Casino, which was open at the time.“
