Sunday December 16
End The Week With Two More WINS
The final day of racing for the week and I notched two more wins to bring the total winners for the week to ten. I went out for the last five races, but scored my first winner in the opener with Whatsnottolike, a Gulfstream Handicapper 40% Club play. Trainer Jamie Ness scores with 47% of his runners in claiming races for tags below $40K; and he scores at a nearly 40% rate with layoff runners AND with horses owned by the powerful Midwest Thoroughbreds Corp. Whatsnottolike took control right out of the gate, was clear by daylight in the stretch, and then here came longshot Tickitocki....SOOOOO CLOSE! PHOTO finish. I honestly thought - like yesterday - I'd won both live and with the slo-mo replay and I did - of sorts......DEAD HEAT. Took what would have been a near $30 payoff and cut it in half, but I was glad to cash the ticket!
I then had two really good handicapping selections where I was rewarded for the "good pick" but not with cash. In the second Lucky Empress was a good 4th at 11/1 and even better in the 4th where Heiressofthecrown was sent off at 21-1 and was a close second. Oh my, that would have been nice!
My "big score" of the day came in the 5th, which I arrived in time to see live - Daddy's Jewel was the only runner in the field of this claiming event who'd ever won going a one-turn mile. That has pointed out many, many winners in the past. He was 5/1 in the program and was 3/1 as they got into the gate. He swept by the field on the turn and was clear through the stretch under jockey Joe Bravo. He'd clicked down to 2/1, but I was happy with the $6.40 payoff and when I cashed for over $30! WHOOO HOOOO!
That was it for the day - Rhythm Queen in the 6th was 4/1, broke slowly and never factored (8th). I was on the rail with a pair of first-time racing fans who were asking me questions for the 7th and they said they would cheer for my horse, #12-Zulbaby who was 17-1....dead last. In the 8th my pick scratched, my second pick won, and I was so close to betting it - he was the "Bet of the Day" for the on-air analyst....sigh....in the featured Harlan's Holiday I really did not think either of the Calder horses were good enough to beat Delegation coming out of a good 3rd in the Breeders' Cup Mile. He ran second behind the Calder horse Csaba - who I'd bet in Philadelphia on Pennsylvania Derby Day and he did absolutely nothing. Figures. And in the finale I thought West Side Glory would be an easy winner. He was the lone speed. Left the gate at 8/5 and was all alone on the lead through an easy pace, turned for home in front and instead of opening up on the field, he stopped like he was shot and finished next to last :(
Racing resumes for the last week of action before the Christmas holiday on Wednesday! Check out my Week 2 Recap video in tomorrow's posting!
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