Host of The Handle -
@VSiNLive
Sat/Sun Noon-3PM EST - Lombardi Line Thurs 1:30PM EST - Sharp Money Fri 5PM EST The Magic Mike Show + Somobombs for
@racing_dudes
Excited to announce I've taken a full time position with
@VSiNLive
! I'll be hosting the Handle from 4-7PM PST Saturday / Sunday taking College Football and NFL!
I'll have articles starting next week covering Horse Racing and in-season betting on as well!
Anyone in the government who sold stock due to INSIDE information about CV should be prosecuted and jailed for the max term. Don’t care your party, don’t care your reason. That’s a blatant and unabashed SEC violation and slap in the face to anyone who voted for them.
What a nice Sunday at Saratoga! The Bombs nail the late Pick 4 and 5 for $8,600. Even nicer when your Dad tails your Pick 5 on track and hits the biggest score of his life!
Michael Somich nailed 6 winners, including 4 in a row during tourney races 4-7, to pocket $14,960 in today's $12,500 Gtd, cash game...which finished up with a final purse of $30,890.
Pretty sad to see the Arlington Million not at Arlington today. This was / is a beautiful track. I was lucky to have gone to my fair share of races there, got to see Cigar in person, feel in love with Star of Cozzene and even had a birthday party there.
Happy Opening Day at the SPAAAA!!! This was my first race track I ever went to (2 months old) and will always have a special place in my heart. I'll miss running for picnic tables, but at least we will see horses on the track today.
Here's my
#somobomb
grid to celebrate.
This is great. Horse racing needs more "alt" start times. Big tracks running at night, mandatory payouts on Monday/Tuesday nights. Create events. The money will follow.
I love Lexington. Hit up the local liquor store and not only did I grab a
@WoodfordReserve
@KentuckyDerby
bourbon, but they had the 147th Derby glass and a plastic cup with every last place finisher.
Here's how I saw the Pick 5 at Parx today. Don't love the sequence since my single is going to be chalk, but I am going to play a smaller ticket into it since there is over $300k sitting in the pot. Good luck!
Just a reminder to people playing
@PimlicoRC
today and tomorrow. The Pick 4 takeout is 25.75%. The Pick 5 takeout is 12%.
If you are deciding between the two, play the Pick 5, 2x the takeout is wildly difficult to beat.
Officially up for the Del Mar meet! Not bad for $100 total investment!!
Make sure to check out my series Handicapping 301 on to learn more about how I play pick 4s and 5s!
Derby Draw instant reaction: Brutal draw for Mo Donagel and Zozos, I probably will not use either in the Super now. Great draw for Taiba, Messier and Zandon.
Also - No horse should be sub 4-1 in this race. Too many directions to go.
I'm 'capping Belmont for tournaments tomorrow and I'm just going to throw this out there, the Late Pick 5 is going to PAY.
3-4 Weaker favorites in the sequence and more then a couple interesting prices.
Give a second look to:
R5 -
#6
R7 -
#3
and
#8
R9 -
#3
and
#8
A much-needed
@PreaknessStakes
week timeline cleanser. “The
@KentuckyDerby
winner runs at her late ... and the filly did it!” Rachel Alexandra wins the 2009 Preakness
People coming at me for saying Rich Strike is an awful bet on Saturday. I’m not saying he is a bad horse. Simply put, 3-1 is an awful price. Fair odds are 20 to 30-1.
I've had a bunch of handicapping questions today, here's a series I wrote for
@racing_dudes
last year called Handicapping 301:
Know Yourself:
Known v Unknown:
Value on Favs:
Here's what I came up with for tomorrow's Royal Ascot card. Since you can't play multi-race bets, I generally will play exactas (cold or keyed) or trifectas with one price horse keyed. I'll update for changes if I'm up before the first post at 9:30AM EST.
Today I’m pulling off the Bing Crosby trifecta. I’m taking a plane, a train and a car to get to Del Mar! 2,250 miles to go, got to make it by first pos. Could not be more excited to be back!
Happy
@CanterburyPark
opening day!!!! Let’s show them some love since they now have an industry low takeout Pick 5! Just 10% takeout, non-jackpot Races 4 thru 8, Pick 5 post time 7:10EST. First post 5:40PM.
#bombsquad
Oh so close to taking it down, but someone popped the 4 late at Santa Anita. Congrats to David Wolff! Great run from
@do_tang
as well! Can't wait for the next two majors at
@HorseTourneys
!
Michael Somich was the leader of the pack that took advantage of 15-1 Power Up Paynter in the finale, rallies late to take $32,000 in today's guaranteed main live game, which drew a prize pool of over $80,000. Anthony Colangelo 2nd, brings home $12.8k.
Horse racing is like golf, all day I’m spraying it all over the course and of course I win a photo with a 6-1 in the last race of the day that just makes me want to come back tomorrow.
Most common question I get asked: What book should I read to get better at handicapping?
No book is going to make you miraculously better. Best thing you can do is handicap every day. Watch the races you capped and go back and look at the form after the race. Put in the work.
Last July I had never played a tournament, but found out about the NHC and set a goal to make it. Today we can check that one off! See you in Vegas!
#NHC2020
Since we've got some tracks closing down and we aren't sure what the future holds, here's some free Sunday afternoon
#somobombs
for
@santaanitapark
! Good luck everyone, thank you for all the support of the
#somobombs
and
#magicmikeshow
!
$500 is a damn joke. Any positive should be 2x the payout in the race to EVERY person involved. That means Jockey, Trainer and Owner all pay DOUBLE the purse payout while having to forfeit the original winnings. Everyone know who’s doing what when they give a trainer a horse.
Trainer Peter Miller has been fined $500 for a Class 4 finding of isoflupredone—an injectable steroid—from when his trainee, Hembree, won the GII Joe Hernandez S.