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They race Arabians at Delaware often. Trip handicapping seems to work pretty good since it's almost always the same horses running this circuit. Of course, this won't help you with your handicapping today. I also look if any respectable jocks are taking a mount since, at least at DEL, its mostly the low percentage jocks that ride the Arabians. Not saying this makes much of a difference in itself, but the better jocks have savvy agents who are more adept at determining winners, even Arabian winners.

At DEL, they run the Arabian race, or races, last on the card, which is pretty smart. There's a lot of dumb money bet from people chasing losses for the day (and I have to admit that I've fallen into this trap myself on one or two occasions). Also, at some point in the year, they have a day of mostly all Arabian races -- an Arabian championship day, so to speak -- that can be some fun. When I've gone on that day, I spend a lot of time watching the tote board for the very early and very late money.

Yeah, they're not as fast as thorouhgbreds, but they're still beautiful animals. There's an almost full-size brass statue at Delaware of an Arabian steed mounted by what looks like a Bedouin warrior.