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Originally Posted by Rivegauche610
Brian, I felt like a complete idiot for my myopia! I will pay closer attention to everything, and never, never, never again go with a tout as a flyer. "Trust, but verify."
Kevin
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Bannon is a decent handicapper and good analyst, but he generally hits cheap horses or obvious horses, don’t expect a lot of bombs from him. If you don’t follow Woodbine all that closely than he’s worth a read, but i would take his selections with a grain of salt, especially his “Best Bet of the Day”, or what i like to call the..... “Best Toss of the Day”.
The 2 Viva Nevada had everything go for it, she was the top “Total Energy” horse in the field, had good early works followed up consistent conditioning, dropping in class, she’s a decliner who runs peak efforts off the shelf, best late horse in the field, 3rd in class.
When you have a horse that has the best “Late Energy” rating, the best “Deceleration” rating accompanied with the best “Hidden Energy” rating accompanied with the best “True Speed” rating, in a route race,
YOU POUNCE ON SAID HORSE.
When looking at
Maiden races at Woodbine, there is one angle that you cannot ignore. Look for horses that have come within 1 length or less of winning in their last 10 lines, you will be amazed at how many of those horses go onto win. Go through every horse in the field and mark down the ones that have come within exactly one length or less of winning down on a piece of paper, if any of those horses are a top “Total Energy “ horse, and/or the horse is a clocker today, you have a likely contender. Looking at race 10 last Sunday there was one horse in the field that fit that billing.....