12/8: HOL (G1) Turf Cup; (G3) Native Diver

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Originally Posted by Bobby Fischer

Initially I loved the form for Heatseeker - he was stretching out after running evenly in a classy 6.5 downhill... had back form on the cushion track, and stretching out with the right pedigree - However , watching the replay of the Morvich, Heatseaker was turning his head badly at the end, and that turned me off. One of the rare times that studying the video will negate a nice job of reading the form.

This was a tough race to handicap and wager.

At least you have a reason for tossing him. I honestly don't know what the hell I was looking at when I crossed him off.
It was a tough race, but for someone to go deep in that race (like I did) and not use that horse is just bad handicapping. Hollendorfer's numbers off a layoff, going turf to synthetic, and going sprint to route are all tremendous. The horse goes 46&4 for 4 furlongs (2/47) over this track on Wednesday, is very cometitive from a speed figure standpoint, and they send him off at 30/1....and I miss it.
I thought Racketeer would run a good race today at 8/1, and he did. But I managed to screw myself out of a big exacta score by not doing a thorough enough job of handicapping.
Sorry to go on and on about this stupid race....but I'm really pissed at myself.