Jon Stettin’s Blog

The Race After

We’ve all heard the phrase “The Morning After” but today we will talk about the race after. In keeping with one of our recent themes, we will again look at an angle which can translate to some nice scores. That’s what it is all about. Last weekend we saw two of the most impressive sprint performances in years. Imperial Hint smoked a field that included Met Mile winner Mitole. It wasn’t just that he smoked

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Trust Your Eyes

There is more information available today for the horseplayer than ever before. We have multiple past performance choices, speed and pace figure choices, selections services, pace projectors, analysis, and just about everything else you can think of and might need to speculate on the outcome of a horse race. We can even see who ran more feet and inches than another. True, most if not all of these tools are subjective and open to interpretation

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Not Over Yet

We are a little more than halfway through the racing year. The three year old male division is still pretty much up in the air. It is ripe for someone to step up and take all the honors. We had a different winner in all the Triple Crown races, including a rare disqualification in the Kentucky Derby. We lost the winner who was put up, Country House. The horse who was disqualified, Maximum Security lost

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Using The Sheets

When I refer to “sheets” I am referring to the Ragozins or Thoro-Graph. While both are speed figures there is something that separates them from the rest. They are not “raw” speed figure numbers. They encompass trip, things like ground loss, wide, inside, and more. Buyers, and most of the others are raw numbers that purport to tell us how fast a horse ran. I can look at the charts and see that. There was

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Upsets

Last week we got to see the first time in the short career of Maximum Security that he did not cross the wire first. To many, it was an unexpected shocker, but should it have been? We’ll look at that in the recent content of angles we’ve been discussing to help identify scores and bet against races alike. We have recently talked about bank roll management, two year olds progressing past their earlier figures, and

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