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Expert Horse Racing Tips for Saratoga & Del Mar This Weekend
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8/16/2024
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We'd like to hook up with Gino Bacola from the Daily Racing Forum on Fridays to get us
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ready for a synthetic weekend at Saratoga and Del Mar, a big Saturday.
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You can follow Gino at it's me, Gino B, on X for free.
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And of course, what is the site again?
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The dailyracingforum.com?
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DRF.com and then shop.drf.com, that's where you get all the research information, the
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past performances.
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If you need a little bit of help, some of our experts have betting strategies, so they'll
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show you exactly how they're betting and what they're doing, and hopefully I can lead you
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to a few in the right direction.
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I think we have a couple plays for you at Saratoga, a couple at Del Mar, and then we'll
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give you a little NFL over on a win total if we have some time at the end.
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All right, let's start with Saturday at the spa.
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Where are we headed here?
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It looks like the 8th and 10th races.
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Yes, and it's been bad weather so far the last few weeks, so I'm going to give you two
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races with horses that are on dirt races, so even if it does rain and there's some changing
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around, these races, I think, and these horses should be in those spots.
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Let's start in race number eight with the number six, Rocketeer.
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This is a horse who I think there's a key equipment change, Scott.
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A horse is going to add the blinkers, and what happens when you put the blinkers on,
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it just gives you a little more focus.
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You tend not to look around as much.
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Rocketeer has been sitting in perfect spots, moved to the front, took the lead, and then
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what happens, he kind of waits on horses when he strikes the front because he can't see,
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starts looking around, there's nobody else there, and he sort of waits, waits, waits.
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Other horses come back to him, and then he kicks on again.
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I think those blinkers will give him some focus.
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He's four and a half to one on the morning line, nine to two.
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I think that's a very fair price.
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There you go, Rocketeer, the six horse in the eighth race.
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All right, what about the tenth race?
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This is the big one at Saratoga on Saturday.
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It's the Alabama.
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It's a stakes race for three-year-old fillies.
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Top three-year-old filly right now, Torpedo Anna.
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She's going to face the boys, so this is a cool opportunity for a lot of the fillies
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that are very good, but they're not quite as good as her, and I think one of them is
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Power Squeeze, another horse who's in that same price range.
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She's four and a half to one.
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We're looking at the time form US card that gives you a lot of different information about
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the race, and I think this is a horse who has foundation.
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She's kind of a grinder, so the longer they go, I think it'll be fine for her.
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She just sits nicely and just keeps coming at you.
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She's a tough horse to wear down.
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She battles.
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Those are my two at the spa.
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Both of them should be right in that four, four and a half to one range.
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My wife, 34C, I could also add a new nickname for her now, Power Squeeze.
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I like that.
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I may move in that direction.
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Starting tomorrow, if Power Squeeze, if she comes through for us, I will change her name
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from 34C to Power Squeeze.
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All right, let's go out west where it's best.
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Surf and turf at Del Mar on Saturday.
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By the way, it's supposed to be just kind of crappy at Saratoga tomorrow.
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Overcast Sunday.
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It's supposed to rain there, but I'm seeing just overcast tomorrow, so they might be able
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to get these races in no problem without a sloppy track.
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All right, Del Mar, fourth race and eighth race.
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Let's start with the fourth race.
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Yeah, we're looking at race number four.
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We're going to go to the outside with the number nine in here.
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Thought process.
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This is a horse who sprinted in the first start and now is going to stretch out and
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go to the grass.
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And what's key about that is her dam.
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This horse's mom was very good going long on the turf.
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So bred to do this with a little bit of experience going shorter.
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This horse is three and a half to one on the morning line.
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I have a feeling she's going to get bet down a little bit.
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Might be a little buzz on her because she fits really well on this spot.
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That's the first of two at Del Mar.
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All right, and the eighth race.
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Yeah, this is the big race at Del Mar.
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It's the Del Mar Oaks.
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Maduro, the number six.
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She had a troubled trip last time out.
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She started to move and she just ran right into traffic.
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She had nowhere to go.
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She had to wait, wait, wait, and then angle around.
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I think she'll get a better trip in this spot.
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She's five to one on the morning line.
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If we can get anything around seven to two or above, that's very fair value on her.
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We actually did a full analysis of this race on the DRF YouTube channel.
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So you get little looks at the replays of other races and other graphics and stuff.
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If you really want to get deeper in the weeds on that one.
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That's awesome.
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All right, now we go to Gino B's NFL total spectacular snags.
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And you're going to go with who this week?
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Yeah, this week we're going to go for an over and we're going to play the Jags over.
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This is a team that we all thought about a year ago was going to be kind of the next team
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in the AFC.
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And then everybody sort of jumped off them real quickly.
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Remember, this is a team that started out eight and three last year.
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And then Lawrence got hurt.
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He had a couple different injuries, the ankle, the concussion, the AC joint.
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And to be honest, he didn't really play that well in spots too.
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He didn't take the step forward that we were really hoping.
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But I think he's better.
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And this team's a little bit better than the overall kind of feel for them right now.
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So they were one in five down the stretch.
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Before that, this team was 15 and five over a 20 game stretch.
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