Best meet in racing to open Wednesday

[RichieP]

Evangeline Downs (Home of the Biggest Fields) opens it's meet tomorrow night.

Big fields
favs that do NOT dominate
Cajun chicanery:eek:


For those who say Saratoga/Del Mar well you haven't truly lived til you experience a few 14 horse 7f races for 5 claimers that haven't won a race in a year! If that doesn't get your juices flowing check your pulse to see if you are alive man. lol

Cajuns do it better! ;)

[froggy]

Richie,

I have youbet and they don't have it listed.
I certainly don't want you to have all the fun.
How can I join the party?

Froggy

[socantra]

Evangeline Downs (Home of the Biggest Fields) opens it's meet tomorrow night.



Spring is finally here. I pulled the ham hocks for the red beans and rice out of the freezer last night and just pulled the card this morning. Ten races on dirt with only three maidens. I'm trying real hard to focus on RDSS, but I believe I'll have to dust off Validator for this one.

'Ils sont partis!"

Dick...

[RichieP]

Richie,

I have youbet and they don't have it listed.
I certainly don't want you to have all the fun.
How can I join the party?

Froggy

Froggy,
Brisbet takes the track and shows the video feed. Here is the link
http://www.americatab.com/new_wagertote/affiliate/1100/brisbet.html

Richie

[RichieP]

Spring is finally here. I pulled the ham hocks for the red beans and rice out of the freezer last night and just pulled the card this morning. Ten races on dirt with only three maidens. I'm trying real hard to focus on RDSS, but I believe I'll have to dust off Validator for this one.

'Ils sont partis!"

Dick...

Dick,
How did I KNOW this would draw you out man! Lmao.

This is gonna be fun I do believe. I LOVE this track.

Dick I am POSITIVE you gotta bit of Cajun in you. Go head!

Richie

[JimG]

Richie,

If you guys ever play from online and use the chat room, just drop a note on the board and I will try to join in when I can.

Jim

[RichieP]

Richie,

If you guys ever play from online and use the chat room, just drop a note on the board and I will try to join in when I can.

Jim

Jim
I would go outa my way to hook up with ya.

I KNOW these Cajun joints are right in your crosshairs!
:)

[JimG]

Jim
I would go outa my way to hook up with ya.

I KNOW these Cajun joints are right in your crosshairs!
:)


I mostly play higher class tracks now, looking for price horses in big fields, however, I grew up playing small tracks Charles Town and Shenandoah Downs, so I can probably adapt. :)

[socantra]

How can I join the party?


TVG is covering races 1, 2 and 5-10 on Wednesday night and has Evangeline listed for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but they don't list which races they are showing yet.

Evangeline doesn't run on Sunday's.

Dick...

[socantra]

Dick,
How did I KNOW this would draw you out man! Lmao.

Dick I am POSITIVE you gotta bit of Cajun in you. Go head!

Richie

Hard to say about the bit of Cajun. I come from a long line of people who didn't talk much about where they came from. My mother got into geneology a few years back and ran into a bunch of dead ends on my father's side of the family a few generations back.

Evangeline does get the juices flowing though. For a small time track, it represents the starting point for such names as Delahoussaye. Desormeaux, Guidry, Bourque, Lanarie, LeBlanc, Sellers and Albarado. John Henry won his 1st big 2yo stakes there too.

"Ils Sont Partis"

Dick...

[richrosa]

For those of you that play P3's, the payouts there are generally excessive due to the large fields and the fact that EVD has its fair share of longshot winners. Since they are rolling P3's the pools are a bit small, but its not unusual to clean out the whole pool with a longshot. I sat on 2 such tickets there last season, when neither 3rd leg "cleaner" materialized.

[Forego]

i will be trying evangeline also in earnest guys. best of luck to everyone.

[shoeless]

Jim G,Shenandoah Downs now that brings a warm feeling to my heart.I used to love to play those Big Exacta's up there.The slots have ruined CT for me I really did well up there before.Jeff

[JimG]

Jim G,Shenandoah Downs now that brings a warm feeling to my heart.I used to love to play those Big Exacta's up there.The slots have ruined CT for me I really did well up there before.Jeff

Jeff,

Ah, the 3 1/2 furlong ShD sprint races. Those were the days. I remember the Big Exacta, Twin Double, and of course the last race was a Jackpot race. We now commonly call a Jackpot race a Superfecta. Made me sad when they razed the property. They say you can't live in the past, but sometimes I would like to.

Jim

[froggy]

JimG says:

"I mostly play higher class tracks now, looking for price horses in big fields, however, I grew up playing small tracks Charles Town and Shenandoah Downs, so I can probably adapt."

You are probably right in staying with the larger handles.

Tonight for my first time at Penn. I was constantly hit by the fluctuating odds.

I do waggercapping and on one of my winners I got paid $5.60. Three minutes to post I was sure he was 8/1. Later on in the 7th #10 Bobs Valentine was a horse that I liked a lot, but since he was 5th in BL/BL and only 4/1 several minutes to post,I bet two higher ranked horses with better odds. Bobs Valentine went wire to wire and paid $24.20.
I believe this happens when the handle is small.
I am going to look at Evangeline Downs and if the same type of thing is happening there its back to the larger mutual's for me.

I'm not a gambler, I don't do this for the thrill of it.
I'm in to make a steady profit.
I don't need to go 10-15 races to make a score.
I'm doing alright with my puny but steady $1.35 ROI

Froggy

[socantra]

Tonight for my first time at Penn. I was constantly hit by the fluctuating odds.

I do waggercapping and on one of my winners I got paid $5.60. Three minutes to post I was sure he was 8/1. Later on in the 7th #10 Bobs Valentine was a horse that I liked a lot, but since he was 5th in BL/BL and only 4/1 several minutes to post,I bet two higher ranked horses with better odds. Bobs Valentine went wire to wire and paid $24.20.
I believe this happens when the handle is small.
I am going to look at Evangeline Downs and if the same type of thing is happening there its back to the larger mutual's for me.

I'm not a gambler, I don't do this for the thrill of it.
I'm in to make a steady profit.
I don't need to go 10-15 races to make a score.
I'm doing alright with my puny but steady $1.35 ROI

Froggy

There's nothing wrong with a 1.35 ROI and everyone needs to work the tracks they are most comfortable with. The odds do fluctuate more at the smaller tracks, but at many of them you can get some guidance from the morning line.

The only horse I found paying $5.60 at Penn tonight was "I Thee Wed" in the 6th, and it was the 5/2 morning line favorite. You are simply not going to get a morning line favorite at 8/1 unless it shows up in the post parade with a missing leg.

Bob's Valentine was 10/1 morning line and went off just over 11/1. I didn't have the card, but you mentioned he was your 5th choice. It sounds like somebody put a big bet on him at some time. I always watch the pool as well as the odds, so I can tell how much it takes to move the line.

I used to place my bets at 2 min, to post and wasn't usually hit too badly by late odds changes, but they do change, at almost all tracks and more so at the smaller ones. I've found that learning which morning line oddsmakers I can truat has made life much less stressful. Many of them are pretty good and you soon learn to spot the ones that aren't

Smaller tracks can be very profitable. They just require a little change in perspective.

Dick...

[froggy]

Dick,

I don't have broadband, I only have dial up and it seems to take forever to get two bets down so I try to place them three min to post .

I'm not certain that I was looking at the right odds with "I Thee Wed".
The odds on the #4 were 4/1 (10/1 morn line) and the #9 were at one point 9/5 (8/1 morn line). There was a lot of ups and downs before the race went off and its possible that I got confused.

So when "Bobs Valentine" came up I did do a double check.

At Evangeline Downs I am going to try 2 min to post and see how it works.

Thanks for your input,

Froggy

[JimG]

Dick,

I don't have broadband, I only have dial up and it seems to take forever to get two bets down so I try to place them three min to post .



If you can get broadband, I strongly recommend it if you like to play and watch races from home. For me, it is not an option but a necessity.

Jim

[froggy]

JimG,

What about DSL?

Will it do the job?

Froggy

[JimG]

JimG,

What about DSL?

Will it do the job?

Froggy

Absolutely, not only will you have less problems betting you will be able to view races with a much bigger and better picture than dial-up.

Jim

[socantra]

I hope it works for you. Small tracks can be profitable and a lot of fun. Besides, its the only place to go on early weeknights.

If you are using Brisbet, you can place both win bets at once. I wouldn't even bother looking at the board odds til about 10 minutes to post. Thats when the call to post sounds and the trainers and all the paddock watchers start placing their bets. The internet bets are a large part of the mix these days and are going to nail you no matter how long you wait.

If you look at the board before the 10 minute mark, look at the win pools instead of the odds. In the early betting at some small tracks a $50 bet can move the odds a lot. Watching the pools can give you a much better idea if the odds mean anything or not.

Dick...

[froggy]

Thanks Jim and Dick,

I'll order it DSL today.

Just signed up at brisbet last night.

I try to do a 60/40 bet. Can they be done at the same time?

Froggy

[JimG]

Thanks Jim and Dick,

I'll order it DSL today.

Just signed up at brisbet last night.

I try to do a 60/40 bet. Can they be done at the same time?

Froggy

On Brisbet you can do a 50/50 win bet at the same time, but otherwise you have to enter it as 2 separate win bets. I have been with them for years and have been pleased.

Jim

[kiltman]

Froggy if you are in Northern Arizona and have Qwest phone service give them a call and get DSL I just got setup with them a month ago and it is 28 dollars a month real fast and can use the phone without it interfering with internet. I had Broadband before that and it was out a couple of times a month did not like it.

[froggy]

Bullhead City with Frontier and 256 is 39.95 I think. I just ordered it this morning.

Thanks guys,

Froggy