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[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by JolyB

Heard a wonderful comment on Talking Horses this morning that was attributed to the late Harvey Pack. He said that Saratoga is not really the graveyard of favorites, it is the graveyard of bad handicappers.

Given that very few horseplayers are able to consistently overcome the takeout year after year, that probably includes most of us.

You'll see by the points scores that it was much more of a typical, tough day at The Spa than last week. Pretty good day for some on wagers but our points scores echo Harvey Pack's statement.

[cal828]

I just wish that takeout was a problem for me. When you lose most of the time like I do, the takeout is 100%.

On another subject, that loss yesterday by Malathaat reminded me of American Pharoah's race where Frosted took it too him early and cost him the loss. We get so impressed with them sometimes we forget they are not machines. The talking heads get it right more times than not, but they were laying it on so thick yesterday, the chance that Malathaat would lose just seemed to be palpable, but I have no doubt that she will be back and prevail hopefully in a much bigger field when the race dynamics are not against her. It was a great race though that we won't soon forget.