new linemaker for spa

[Benny]

Travis Stone
‏@TravisStone
I'm excited to share this summer I'm switching from binoculars to spreadsheets as I'll be making the morning line for @TheNYRA at Saratoga!

[mclem0822]

Originally Posted by Benny

Travis Stone
‏@TravisStone
I'm excited to share this summer I'm switching from binoculars to spreadsheets as I'll be making the morning line for @TheNYRA at Saratoga!

Congrats to Travis and good luck with this challenge!

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Benny

Travis Stone
‏@TravisStone
I'm excited to share this summer I'm switching from binoculars to spreadsheets as I'll be making the morning line for @TheNYRA at Saratoga!

congrats to travis, and best of luck to him.

[Travis Stone]

Thanks everyone. It will be a fun challenge. The first race on Friday nearly gave me an ulcer. Ha!

[jnunan4759]

Yesterday (Fri) shows how tough a job that is. It takes great courage to make the ML at the Spa. I will tell my grandkids about you.

[Alabama Stakes]

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

Thanks everyone. It will be a fun challenge. The first race on Friday nearly gave me an ulcer. Ha!

You'll be great Trav. That first race didn't give me an ulcer till after it was run and I was 3 deep and not in the money with either of em

[RHT2004]

Originally Posted by Alabama Stakes

You'll be great Trav. That first race didn't give me an ulcer till after it was run and I was 3 deep and not in the money with either of em

Whats new?

[jnunan4759]

You do the best you can do. Then you walk in to that track and walk straight into the face of an alternate universe. You see the alcohol, but notice a strange smeĺl. It's the smell of Testosterone. You see a sweaty man pull a wad of $100 bills from his pocket and there goes the Morining Line. Sometimes it's good to forget.

It's like the running of the bulls without the bulls. I was going to go over and do that with a buddy and then go to Saratoga and he said Saratoga would be much harder. But you can just smell the ego in the air. Everybody wants to beat the beast.

It's like Quint with the shark, Ahab with the whale. Setting odds on this is very inexact.

I think you are doing a good job, Travis. Don't give up.

[Alabama Stakes]

Pretty solid so far except for that 4/5 on songbird. Keep up the good work Trav

[jms62]

Originally Posted by cmfhb411

Just as tough as being a public handicapper or a jockey.

Easy to criticize, yet too difficult for most to do well.

good luck Travis

Probably harder.... Nothing riles horseplayers than someone that is putting out horses at 10-1 and up that go off as favorites if it happens consistently. A lot of us put in a lot of effort based upon a somewhat consistent line. Nothing worse than finding a 10-1 morning line jewel that is in a later leg of a sequential wager that goes off as the favorite. Not to add any pressure but New York lines are very consistent.

[Benny]

Originally Posted by jms62

Probably harder.... Nothing riles horseplayers than someone that is putting out horses at 10-1 and up that go off as favorites if it happens consistently. A lot of us put in a lot of effort based upon a somewhat consistent line. Nothing worse than finding a 10-1 morning line jewel that is in a later leg of a sequential wager that goes off as the favorite. Not to add any pressure but New York lines are very consistent.

Thats why i posted it for a heads up.i thhink the ML maker should be posted each day with pp's just in case a sub steps in.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Benny

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Thats why i posted it for a heads up.i thhink the ML maker should be posted each day with pp's just in case a sub steps in.

We need a Morningstar like rating for Lines makers and Public Handicappers.