Friday March 29
Struggling Still
My handicapping always balances out to 30% or better, so after two days of missing, especially at short prices I was pretty confident that today I'd win more than a couple.....nope, another off-day. I missed with the even money favorite in the opener when second - seems to be a theme for the week! Then at 3/2 I was a miserable 7th in the 4th. FINALLY my second win of the day in the 6th when I picked Island Time to score in a claiming event on the turf. He was first off the claim for trainer David Fawkes who wins 40% of the time with first-off-the-claim runners.
But that was it for the day when I missed at 5/2 (7th in the 7th) and then second yet again in the finale, again at a short price of 3/2 with Adventurine - Todd Pletcher & Javier Castellano let me down, AGAIN.....wow.
The most "interesting" story of the day had to do with the program for Derby Day. With thirty people joining us and being in Houston all week I did most of the work on the program prior to the trip; then handicapped on the way home. So my plan was to take the program to FedEx where they have printing (where I have all my racing adventures published) and give them the entire thing digitally in the morning; have them print it and I'd pick it up around 4 pm before all our friends came over for a pre-Derby party. There I was going to give them their programs and let them pick their horses for the Owner's Competition. So all went according to plan until the girl rang up the order and said, that will be......
$457.00
And I said, seriously? She said yes.....so I said, never mind, I'll go home and print it, then bring it back for you to bind it - that's only a couple dollars per book. What I did not realize was how V-E-R-Y long the printing would take. I started printing at 11 a.m. and didn't finish until 4 p.m.! I got back just as the first of our guests arrived (luckily I'd printed the first dozen and had picked them up when I dropped off the last batch before the party). So it all seemed "no problem to our guests. I picked up the last of the programs at about 10 pm. It was a LOT of work today to generate programs for everyone.
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