August 7 Saratoga Points Picks go here . . .

[DonGuido]

OK RQ has selected Saratoga again and we're playing races 2-12. Let's see if this helps him get the first THREEPEAT of the year. Please have all points picks and ROI wagers in by 1:08PM ET, scheduled post time for Race 2.

Ga'luk to all!!!

[Roamin42]

R2…6-2-4

R3…4-2-3

R4…7-3-4

R5…2-5-9

R6…2-5-3

R7…6-5-4

R8…2-7-8

R9…6-1-9

R10..3-5-2

R11..8-1-5

R12..6-8-3

[RUFFIAN]

PURRRFECT OR POINTLESS ��

R2
4-3-2-1-6
R3
2-3-5-4-1
R4
9-2-5-7-10
R5
3-2-1-7-6
R6
3-5-2-7-9
R7
3-5-2-6-1
R8
7-4-5-3-8
R9
6-4-7-2-11
R10
4-5-3-2-1
R11
1-5-2-7-8
R12
6-7-3-11-9

CATNIP �� CAKE �� FOR SCOREKEEPER

[Real Quiet]

R2...5-4-8-3-6
R3...4-3-5-1-6
R4...9-5-3-6-2
R5...2-3-5-7-8
R6...2-5-7-3
R7...6-5-3-7-4
R8...8-7-1-2-5
R9...6-7-4-11-2
R10..4-2-1-5-3
R11..3-5-4-2-7
R12..3-10-9-7-6

Appreciation to Plenilune for scoring

[cal828]

R2 1-3-4-2

R3 5-4-3-1

R4 9-10-5-7

R5 2-3-7-6

R6 5-3-2-11

R7 3-5-6-7

R8 7-4-2-6

R9 6-4-7-8

R10 4-5-1-2

R11 2-3-8-4

R12 7-10-11-9

[Digger]

r2: 4 2 5 1
r3: 1 5 2 3
r4: 10 9 7 1
r5: 2 8 3 1
r6: 12 2 7 1
r7: 5 3 2 1
r8: 4 7 3 1
r9: 4 1 6 2
r10: 2 5 4 1
r11: 1a 2 7 3
r12: 3 6 10 1

[RUFFIAN]

Posting For Cruzan Who Has Technical Issues Here

From His Email

not gonna make it..
if you can please copy and paste my selection from your site to don site.
Im gonna send you my roi soon

R2. 6-4-8
R3. 5-2-4
R4. 10-9-5
R5. 1-6-3
R6. 6-5-2
R7. 4-7-5
R8. 1-6-7
R9. 5-8-9
R10. 3-1-5
R11. 8-4-7
R12. 5-11-12

[JolyB]

R2: 1-4-2-3-5
R3: 3-5-4-1-6
R4: 9-5-7-6-10
R5: 2-3-7-4-9
R6: 3-5-2-7-9
R7: 3-5-6-2-1
R8: 7-5-4-8-3
R9: 6-4-7-1-8
R10: 4-5-2-1-3
R11: 2-5-3-1-6
R12: 6-7-3-10-8

Good luck to all and thank you to Plenilune for scoring.

[DonGuido]

2: 4-3-1-6-2
3: 4-5-1-3
4: 9-5-7-10-3
5: 3-2-6-9
6: 3-2-5-11-7
7: 5-3-2-6-9
8: 7-4-8-2-5
9: 6-4-2-8-1
10: 4-5-2-3-1
11: 5-1-3-2-7
12: 11-7-6-12-3

Ga'luk to all!!!

[DonGuido]

I obviously handicapped the wrong track.

[JolyB]

Originally Posted by DonGuido

I obviously handicapped the wrong track.

I feel as if I've done that for the last several weeks. Picking winners at the Spa is tough but sooooooo rewarding when you do.

Congrats to Steve Asmussen on becoming the all time leading trainer with Stellar Tap in the 5th today.

[DonGuido]

Also interesting that no one took flyer on Steve Asmussen's horse, Stellar Tap, to win his record setting position of all time leading trainer in America. It was almost a no brainer but . . . almost??? Patty and I talked to him several times, briefly of course, wishing him luck in his earlier racing days Lone Star Park. He always stopped and responded to us in a congenial way.

Sure glad he got a real haircut :

[cal828]

If I ever come back this way again as some seem to think we do, I want to have Steve Asmussen's hair or may Jim Acosta. My own hair vacated my head long ago and it was so terrible and frizzy, I wasn't even upset. Some of you that watch the Fox broadcast probably caught the golf cart interview between Steve and Jonathan Kinchen about hair and other things. Kinchen, I think is a positive addition to the show.

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by cal828

If I ever come back this way again as some seem to think we do, I want to have Steve Asmussen's hair or may Jim Acosta. My own hair vacated my head long ago and it was so terrible and frizzy, I wasn't even upset. Some of you that watch the Fox broadcast probably caught the golf cart interview between Steve and Jonathan Kinchen about hair and other things. Kinchen, I think is a positive addition to the show.

Yes Steve has enough hair for 2-3 people. I still have most of mine but it's as white as snow, has been for at least 10-12 yrs.

[RUFFIAN]

Speakin Of Asmussen …

Yum Yum Yum
One Good Lookin Dude

[cal828]

Originally Posted by DonGuido

Yes Steve has enough hair for 2-3 people. I still have most of mine but it's as white as snow, has been for at least 10-12 yrs.

What hair I have left is gray. I think it started turning when I reached 40. At one time I also had a beard and mustache. Funny thing about that was my beard and mustache was reddish or blondish which did not match the hair on the top of my head. Can't tolerate a beard anymore. Itches too much. Glad those days when people had bigger hair, side burns, beards and such seem to be over. At least for a while until it comes around again as everything seems to do.

[RUFFIAN]

“… Glad those days when people had bigger hair, side burns, beards and such seem to be over. At least for a while …”
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IVE ALWAYS LOVED A MAN WITH LONG HAIR AND BEARD!

Never Was Attracted To What I call THE “ F B I Look”

Short hair, No Beard, Business Suit + Tie = YUCK

[cal828]

I still have my mustache and probably always will as I wouldn't recognize the stranger in the mirror, if I did away with it, but just saying a full beard has become an uncomfortable thing to me. Don't know how I was ever able to tolerate one when I was younger, but lots of things change as we age. As for the FBI look, I was never in to that. The place I worked, had a dress code, but I always ignored it and usually wore jeans and T shirts to work. Eventually, the powers that be came over to my way of thinking and did away with the dress code.

[JolyB]

It's always intriguing how our conversations meander to all sorts of interesting topics. I tried growing a mustache once as an act of independence. While I was serving in the Army [1970 or so], I had a temporary duty assignment that attached me to a German missile unit that was stationed on the island of Crete as part of a NATO exercise. While we had military duties to perform, we didn't have the same military discipline that I had been used to and I took that 6 week assignment as an opportunity to grow a mustache. It was in many ways more of a bother than it was worth, but it did make me look older [I had a baby face and was asked for proof of age in bars until I was in my 30's. Now I'd generously tip anyone who asked]. Kept it for a few years thereafter but I guess I just got tired of trying to keep it trimmed evenly.

I'm just as glad that Ruff and I have never met in person. Her "YUCK" description pretty much summed me up every working day of my professional career, when dress down day meant leaving the vest on my 3 piece suit at home. The things you need to do to make a living and support a family. I've tried to compensate for that since retirement by wearing shorts and a polo or t shirt in summer and a sweater and jeans in the winter.

[cal828]

I'm just as glad that Ruff and I have never met in person. Her "YUCK" description pretty much summed me up every working day of my professional career, when dress down day meant leaving the vest on my 3 piece suit at home. The things you need to do to make a living and support a family. I've tried to compensate for that since retirement by wearing shorts and a polo or t shirt in summer and a sweater and jeans in the winter.[/quote]

Sorry, no intention on my part to disparage anyone for their dressing habits. We all have to make compromises for the working world. I was lucky that my employers didn't insist that I dress better which might have been because of the lucky circumstance of rarely having to be in the same city as my boss which was an "out of sight, out of mind" situation, but also it might not have made much sense to dress up in that I was a social worker and dealt with a lot of people of very modest means which meant visits to their homes. It seemed better to dress down a little bit. I didn't want it to seem like I was there to take an order for 10,000 shares of Microsoft, if that makes any sense. Also, I often didn't know what I would encounter when visiting with people. I can vividly remember once visiting a family that literally lived in what I would call a hut in the middle of a cow pasture. I had to climb over a barbed wire fence to visit with them and the entry to their home was not meant to allow entrance while standing. I literally had to crawl on my hands and knees to get in. They had only a single room with a dirt floor and a pot bellied wood stove.