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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
It's hard to read much into him.
Is his oddball behavior an act for the camera?
I've never seen a horseplayer win with such dignity. Pittsburgh Phil (quite inaccurately) was portrayed to win like that. But the best racing mind of that time who put stuff to print, Walter Vosbugh, wrote that Pittsburgh Phil would have horrible temper tantrums after races, and he was a fierce complainer when he didn't agree with a weight assignment his horse was handicapped with.
Headband Weirdo's two contest showings for the Breeders' Cup were extremely impressive, but contests are about stabbing at longshots, and the sample size of races are small.
If you're to believe the Rotunda table, that hot Mail-Order Bride selected five straight winners in a row, solely on the basis of name.
A contest is basically a race to the highest score, so you generally have to stab with longshots and bypass logical horses if you want to win them.
My gut feeling is "I'd sure love to book that guys action over the long-term" -- but who knows. It will be interesting to see more episodes.
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Mike Gundy voice: "That's not true!"
That might be the case in NHC type contests Doug but, this is the live
BCBC, a whole different format. When you have to bet a minimum of $600 on 5 races from Friday's BC program and $900 on 6 races from Saturday's program.
You can't throw that kinda money at bombs just hoping to connect on one.
While I will be the first to say that Helmers is Grade 1 douche on camera, his two performances over four days of Breeders Cup races at two different tracks is not a fluke. The biggest mistake he made was betting very little of his bankroll on Fort Larned. (Who he said, he had a huge opinion on)
01-22-2014, 10:13 PM
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