Showvivor 2 @ Santa Anita

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Originally Posted by brianwspencer

The mindset of this game is messing with my head. It's all about playing as absolutely safe as you possibly can and looking for chalk chalk chalk that seems too good to miss the board.

It's like fishing for $2.10 show prices.

You're daring to take a first-time grass runner

The key is not really the horse you select(per say.) It is about the competition.There are 3 slots,and if your horse runs it's B,OR C race(or bad trip,) will your horse fight to get 3rd? Of the competitors in the race,how hard is it gunna be to pick up that last slot? You're gunna pick a horse(eventually) who is either not on it's game,or gets a very bad trip.It is going to happen.You need to foresee the possibility,and have picked the situation where 1)your horse cares about fighting for 3rd,and 2)the other horses in the race are few in #,or in fight.This is why I didn't use the the short-field 2nd race.I think if you run a less than average race in there(any of them,)you will get beat for 3rd.On the other hand,yesterday,WAILEA GIRL ran awful........awful.....but it wasn't all about her.There are not that many situations where your horse can run awful,and get 3rd,but that was the horse yesterday that could get 3rd with her C game.Don't think about the A game.You are not gunna get it enough of the time.