What a great Formulator stat...
 

Well, kinda.

DRF cappers go 8 for 144 in their picks published in today's DRF - 24 people picking 6 races and they collectively had 8 wins...6 of them accredited to Awesome Feather, 1 for More Than Real, 1 for Unrivaled Belle.

They beat me.

I don't feel so bad now :D

Me too. Missed 3 supers by not just hitting the "all" button in fourth.

Same here..Damn Fly Down :mad:

Best formulator stat? Rouget being 0-18 in the last five years in the u.s. Great stat if you needed a little push to beat an even money fav.

Speaking of Fly Down and Formulator .... the fractional breakdown charts they have are a pretty cool tool and I look at them a lot before watching replays.

One of the best examples all year was with Fly Down in the LA Derby .... I noticed nothing remotely special about his performance that day until I looked at the chart.




You see Fly Down running the 4th quarter mile in a very slow 26.03 .. and yet he unleashed a rapid final furlong of 11.58 that was clearly the fields fastest.

Even though he ran only an 83 Beyer and was 9th without much trouble - it kind of tipped you off that the horse really wasn't giving any effort on the far turn while he was inside of horses.

He won his next start in the Peter Pan by 6 lengths at 7/2 odds and his figure improved 14 points.

The derby and BC are very tough and is basically a crap shoot with 3/4ths of the field you can make a strong case for. Even so, you still get long bombs like Shared Account and Dakota Phone who I just avoided all together. You cant cover them all so you stick with your handicapping skill and instinct on who you cover in exotics. Congrats on those who actually made money this year on the BC. The other days are for the rest of us