Ultra Sports Bet

The Breeders’ Cup is now five days gone, and it’s time to revisit my selections. I don’t need to see how I did (I know that intimately by now), but rather how I feel about my picks and the process behind them. The BC is a major crapshoot, so even the best handicapping in the world isn’t always going to be effective and profitable. You need to make sure that you make decisions that you would be happy to make again.First, some background. My betting strategy was ultimately built around pursuing exotics based on my top three horses in each …read more

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It is truly ugly in New Jersey for the Breeders’ Cup. There are unconfirmed reports that Sheik Mohammed has ordered an ark to be built. When doing your final handicapping for the big day there’s really only one thing to remember: DON’T OVERTHINK IT. The weather is a mess, but it is just one factor that makes handicapping these races as difficult as it is. Just have fun. The horses that won today were, for the most part, good enough to win on a dry track.

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The Breeders’ Cup is only two days away and I’m so excited I can hardly stand myself. I would do a bunch of analysis here, but I have spent the last couple of weeks doing that on another site, and it’s way too much work to do it again. Through the power of links, though, you can see all that I have to say about the big days:

Friday’s races

Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Filly and Mare Turf
Sprint
Mile
Distaff
Turf
Classic

There are also a few articles I did for fun and to try to make the time until the first race pass faster:

Ranking the favorites
The things that …read more

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The Devil is here on earth, and his name is TSN!
For those of you who aren’t Canadian, TSN is Canada’s foremost sports network. It tries hard to be ESPN, but, unlike ESPN, TSN is mostly terrible. For the most part I don’t really care. Once in a while, though, they do something to infuriate me. Now is such a time.
Somehow, these morons got the rights to the Breeders’ Cup. This happened for the first time last year, coinciding with the move to ESPN in the U.S. Last year they put the broadcast on some obscure cable network that very few …read more

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T-minus 17 days and counting until the Breeders’ Cup. Not that I’m counting the seconds or anything. Or at least not that I am going to admit. With the races getting near I am thinking about them more and more, and watching more and more video. Here are a few BC thoughts that have popped up over the last few days:

I have watched Curlin win the Jockey Club Gold Cup over Lawyer Ron several times over the last few days (I’m such a geek that I have the video loaded onto my iPod for portable viewing pleasure). Two things stick …read more

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There’s a very interesting post about the Kentucky Derby champion over at Handride. Basically, Patrick is not a believer. His argument is sound – Grasshopper almost beat Street Sense in the Travers, and then he was completely exposed in (not-so) Super Derby last weekend. Any Given Saturday also ran close to the Derby champ in Tampa Bay in the spring, and has turned into a bit of a wonder horse now. Though I don’t agree that Street Sense will flame out in the Kentucky Cup Classic and be retired before he heads to Monmouth at the end of the month, …read more

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