12/15: Aqueduct (1st-9th)
 

Couldn't get the 6 winners on one ticket Sunday in the shockingly paultry $880 sextet, but rang up steady sequence of exotics hits including two $110+ triples that helped level out the weekend nicely. While third choice for me in the eighth race, Speightful Affair was simply not a horse worth including on multis as she was very unlikely to win. She did, and it killed the P4 and a chance for a P6 conso... So be it. You're always going to be better off long term trying to get worthwhile overlays into your P3's, P4's and P6's than underlays. I had piled up some nice hits earlier on the card, so missing the small prizes wasn't too exasperating. Hope you did well Sunday after the lousy Saturday. Not necessarily a scintillating card at Aqueduct to start the week, but there are some interesting spots...


AQUEDUCT


POST-SCRATCHES


1st: CLM, 3+, 1m-70y (P3, DD, Super)

Best Value: #7 New York Style 12-1 4th
Next Best: #5 Stealth Missle 6-5 WON ($3.50)
Exotics Use: #6 Copper Cascade 4-1 3rd
Super Add: #9 Marina Market 20-1 2nd


2nd: CLM, 3+, 6f (P4, P3, DD)

Cohen double named on the Repole entry. If it's #1 Dr. W that goes. he's a 100% play-against. #1a Calibrachoa isn't necessarily lovable either, but is more encouraging as a short number include..

Best Value: #6 Peter's Creek 8-1 4th
Next Best: #4 Cavallo Pazzo 5-2 3rd


3rd: Cosmic Bob, 3yo, 1m-70y (P3, DD)

Best Value: #5 Goombada Guska 8-1 WON ($18.20)
Next Best: #3 Monsignor 8-5 4th
Exotics Use: #4 No Shenanigans 7-2 2nd


4th: NY-MSW, 2yo-f, 6f (P6, P3, DD, Super)

Most Likely: #3 Summer Flick 4-1 4th
Best Value: #7 Freud's Dream 5-1 6th
Next Best: #1 Tapitude 3-1 3rd
Super Add: #4 Thunder Princess 7-2 2nd


5th: CLM/N2L, F&M-3+, 6f (G/S, P3, DD)

Both the first and second choices here (#'s 5 & 6) have reasons to regress..

Best Value: #4 Justkeepitsimple 6-1 9th
Exotics Use: #3 Why Then 5-1 5th
Next Best: #5 Amply Rewarded 3-1 WON ($5.30)


<$75 P4 Play::

2: 1-4-6
3: 3-5
4: 1-3-4-7
5: 3-4-5

3x2x4x3 = $72


6th: MDN CLM, 2yo-F, 1m (P4, P3, DD, Super)

Most Likely: #6 Indian Lilly 4-1 5th
Next Best: #7 For Real Too 5-1 2nd
Best Value: #3 J C's Queen 20-1 7th
Super Add: #10 Tough Market 15-1 WON ($22.40)


7th: CLM/N1Y, 3+, 1m-70y (P3, DD, Super)

Best Value: #2 Diamond District 6-1 4th
Next Best: #6 Dantastic 5-2 WON ($13.00)
Exotics Use: #3 Three in the Bag 7-2 2nd
Super Add: #4 Four Shore 5-1 6th


8th: S/ALW, 2yo, 6f (DD)

Most Likely: #7 Speightful Kiss 5-2 6th
Best Value: #4 Brahman 5-1 5th
Next Best: #2 Hardshell 9-2 3rd


9th: MDN CLM, 3+, 6f (Super)

Has the look and feel of a chaotic race..

Best Value: #3 Candy Heart 8-1 3rd
Next Best: #4 Real Rooster 2-1 4th
Exotics Use: #10 All My Chips 5-2 7th
Super Add: #5 Bruce Alley 5-1 2nd


<$75 P4 Play:

6: 3-6-7-10
7: 2-3-6
8: 7
9: 3-4-5-8-9-10

4x3x1x6 = $72


Good luck!
Steve

Serling, to quote the Fisher Stevens' character in Flamingo Kid, is "psychotic" today at the Big A...

Marina Market 2nd at 11-1 in the 1st..

Goombada Guska $19.20 to win in 4 horse field in the 3rd..

Tough Market $22.40 to win the 6th..

Little known fact.. John Tuturro had a two bit role in the Yonker Raceway scene..How hot was Mrs Gretzky?

BTW Serling would have made a horrible exotic car salesman

Look at the cinema chops on Freddy!

Turturo was just getting noticed in the mid-80's. Would add credits in To Live in and Die in L.A., Gung Ho and The Color of Money before Do the Right Thing (1989) and Miller's Crossing (1990) made him huge..

Also viewable in bit roles in The Flamingo Kid?

Marisa Tomei in her first credited role, a full 8 years before My Cousin Vinny..

Bronson Pinchot, the same year as his turn in Beverly Hills Cop as Serge..

Steven Weber, a full 6 years before Wings..

And don't forget Leon as Fortune, almost 10 years before Cool Runnings..

The Flamingo Kid is one of my favorites. Excellent job by Andy today.

Garry Marshall hasnt done many I like. He certainly knows how to make money. I guess Overboard was OK "velveta" mostly because of Goldie and the pill pushing shrink

Flamingo Kid is Classic ("sweet ginger brown") Serling not so much

$18k Carryover

$7,500 Late P4...

How many days have you gone 3 out of 4 now? Crazy right

His sitcom work (The Odd Couple, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley) is among the best in television history and gave rise to a peck of outstanding writers/directors including his own sister Penny and Ron Howard. On the big screen, it's hard to argue with his effort helming Pretty Woman.

Goes with the territory... Late one required some expanded backup play to hit as the Rudy horse was certainly the kind you would put on one. But the early P4 was unhittable for me as I wouldn't have used the Smokin Mel maiden winner.

Isnt Penny his sister?

Yourself, Serling and Tammaro all had Goombada Guska on top. Nice pick from all 3 of you.

I would like to have 10% as much success at anything in life as Fisher Stevens has had with women.

A friend of mine played John Turturro's girlfriend in the Color of Money.

I would have rather had the coke in his nose than....

Turturo was just getting noticed in the mid-80's. Would add credits in To Live in and Die in L.A., Gung Ho and The Color of Money before Do the Right Thing (1989) and Miller's Crossing (1990) made him huge..

IMO his greatest role. "Bruce, Bruce"...."Take your effin piece of pizza and go the F back to Africa!"