Thanks. It's a good feeling clinching up another profitable year here like this -- even if it is at a place that's not on the major racing landscape.
Of this freaky streak of 'Best Bet' winners -- mostly all of them have been standout horses on CJ's figures and often with other factors in there favor.
For instance, maybe an important trainer change or big edge on the way the race dynamics look, or the standout figure came despite a tough trip.
Some of the upset winners have been by more esoteric means.
Here's the form for Cry Vengence today:
This was just a straight-forward pedigree play...the kind I VERY rarely make.
A. P. Indy was the grandsire and A. P Indy's half sibling Summer Squall the dam sire.
In a nutshell, the horse had 10 furlong breeding -- and was stretching out to a route from races at 4.5 furlongs and 5.5 furlongs.
No A. P. Indy offspring has ever won a race at 6 furlongs or less at Saratoga. Someone made a big deal to me how Dreaming of Julia (out of Dream Rush) won her debut big going 6.5 furlongs and how she would have broke that crazy skid and all that. Probably true, but didn't she look a whole lot better when she was stretched out to a mile and won a stake race by 16+ lengths second out?
I might not have picked Cry Vengance today if I didn't have negative opinions on the two favorites.
The even money favorite was a Kitten's Joy first-time starter for Mike Maker -- who I hate with debuters.
This horse was the 2nd choice on the ML:
It wasn't bet well at PID in its debut despite having Dominguez up and being a half sibling to two-time Eclipse champion Lookin At Lucky and Kensei. Also, it didn't run much of a figure on CJ's or anyone elses figures for that matter.
If you're debuting at PID with Ramon Dominguez up, and you're a half to Lookin At Lucky and Kensei, you're probably going to be bet hard if you can actually run.
Anyway, a lot of this stuff isn't so PID specific or PID specialist.