I really love Tampa. It's like the ball field where we all like to play.

I respect all your opinions. After all....Hungarian Gent...I mean, are you kidding me?

I have no answers only questions.

Good luck to all.

Spyder............................................ ....................................out

Im tossing Apple in the 5th, if she wins WHATEVER. She will be 4-5. I dont think you have to spread in the 6th. Im using 2 mains and one backup. The chalk and the first timer both look ok, and a friend of mine liked the 9 as a bomb.

"He looked so bad in the program I had to use him". Exacta Bob

Agree - its a tough sequence. What do you think of the 5th? J. Rose in from Del (not that he had much going on) to take the Motion horse - I need to watch that race, but a ton will single here and there is some real back class to a few of these firsters. And the 6th is another mdn 25 wide open crap shoot.

Maybe Im being ignored here.
The 6th is not that wide open, NOTHING LIKE THE 4TH. Roses horse could win for fun, but at 4-5 who cares?

4th race

#1 MIGHT show brief early foot, but no thanks.

#2 Wasiluk!! horse will have to wait for his 48th race to pass this condition.

#3 His numbers are on grass, will get bet down like crazy, no thanks.

#4 Has shown at least some willingness to pass horses, which can go a long way at this level.

#5 Another Wasliluk and a jockey that hasn't won a race this year:zz:

#6 Oh boy...never hit the board in 24 tries at tampa:eek:

#7 Best numbers are on grass and the fake ****. Back with Behrens and his one race at Tampa leaves much to be desired. Should take some money based on the class drop, but too much to dislike for my taste.

#8 Sans the slop aided effort 3 back, seems like if she breaks slow at all, she shows no interest after that. She isn't gonna get a quicker pace than she had last out to close into. Another beatable one at a short price.

#9 Probable pace casualty

#10 Steven Dye 0 for 35 this year:rolleyes:

#11 http://lucieherkova.com/ :D

#12 Another capable of sitting a perfect trip from that outside post

Not being ignored - you posted before I had a chance to respond to GPK.

The 6th is wide open - and what I LOVE about Tampa is that if you're not familiar with Tampa, it can appear the way you are seeing it. And there's going to be a lot of that money in the pools tomorrow.

See GPK's post about the 4th.

You know as well as anyone that certain winners of certain races at TBD make no sense at all.

MDN 25's are notorious for not running to form here. Especially at 7F, this early in the meet over the sand. There's a lot that goes into it - I'm using 5 here and am not crazy about my lack of coverage.

The 7 in the 6th is the only one that looks good to me. The infamous GPK and BigsMC "Done No Wrong" angle :$:

Ok, who are the 5? I thought the chalk and the firster were clearly the ones to beat, and then the 9 I was going to toss in. If I get live tossing the Motion I want the big coverage also.

I'd like to see a work here, he can sure move over the poly...but I love Lionheart firsters anyhow. I need some scratches

I'm not using your buddy's 9

And didn't have a clue about this one until Dickau came along. I'm hoping he hasn't had enough time to undo what he received.

Regarding Cut It Up in the 4th, underlayed? Yes. Bad dirt race? Yes. There are other ways of looking at this horse's form. Instead of saying the one dirt race was awful, what if we say, both times this horse was in a for a tag she ran well? She broke her maiden for 12.5k and missed by 1.5 lengths in a 25kN2L. Perhaps she was just in over her head in her one dirt try at the N1X level and it is not a hatred for the surface?

If you are betting to win, play the 12. If you are playing horozontally, I would use the 3 too, but that's just me.

I can't decide what to do with your 4 Kev.....

As for the 5th, the only horses that can beat the chalk are the firsters. I like the 1 a bit and the 6 looks okay, but both need to improve dramatically to catch up to Apple Charlotte. As a side note, my stats have RHT as having four winners on the grass. Congrats to PG1985 for catching every one of them. You are truly the man.

Like I said above. If you are betting to win, you try to beat her, but horozontally, she is a near single.

In the 6th race, what is with Dale Bennett's choice of jocks? Rejected is a must use, but don't get mesmorized by those quick OTC works. Everybody works quick there since they installed the junk. Had those works been at Tampa, he'd be a single (and probably not entered for a tag).

Fast and firm (no rain since opening day, so the turf will be firmer and quicker than Saturday) today.....

Check the TIDE charts for Tampa Bay. If the tide is going out the speed should hold. If the tide is coming in speed is a question mark.

I'm guessing every agent saw that he's 2 seconds slower in the morning here than he was in KY (both dirt and fake dirt). Add the far outside and he has to use to get out, you wind up with Carlos Oliverio? Dunno, he will take money as a result of the speed figs from KY and the D. Bennett connection, and almost have to include in the Pick 4, but not expecting much.

A sneaky one in here is the Griff entry - blinks on and some sharp morning drills here - and a 5 lb bug.

There is simply zero pace in here - if the Lionheart firster has any at all, it's over.

Tampa too early to invest much.
 

So I am going in lite. Race 3, Pick 4: 8/8,10/6,9,8/4,12. Race 7, Pick 4: 9,10,4/7,6/5,8/3,6,8.

Tampa Bay Downs 7 0.50 P4 (PWHL) 3, 4, 7 / 3, 6, 13 / 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 / 3, 8 $54.00

2009-12-16 10:33:07 AM Tampa Bay Race 4 $1 P3 on 3,4,7,8,10,12 with 1,6 with 7,9,11,12 (ticket:7853E-54EE0) $48.00
2009-12-15 10:37:54 PM A Deposit of $100.00 was made. $100.00

2009-12-16 11:02:00 AM Tampa Bay Race 2 $1 P3 on 6-9,11,12 with 12 with 3,4,7,8,10,12 (ticket:C4F80-47217) $36.00

2009-12-16 11:05:34 AM Tampa Bay Race 8 $1 P3 on 6 with 2-5,8 with 1,7,8 (ticket:8BD58-BEDE5) $15.00

Cheap stab at the early P4 as the late appears much more approachable:

2,7/3,10,12/6,8,10/1,7,11

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