Tag Archives: Racing

Value players

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by Stan Gutkowski

There are value players, and there are extreme value players. Count yours truly in the second category. Most astute bettors play for value rather than action. Value players wager exclusively on that entity that goes away at 2-1, when they make that horse even money on their morning line. No problem exists with that type of play, except for those curmudgeonly souls who desire extreme value.
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Get over with Down Under

by Stan Gutkowski

For those too young to remember, Cardigan Bay was the first standardbred to win in excess of $1 million. Trained and driven by Stanley Dancer, the gelding from Down Under started a migration of, more than occasionally, indefatigable horseflesh. Pacers from Australia and New Zealand have continued to visit these shores and enjoy the racing.
Though uncertain of the following statement, yours truly believes that it more than resembles fact: 60 percent of these foreign visitors won their first race here. That was then. This is now. The percentages today probably do not quite reach that threshold, even though these Down Under invaders acquit themselves quite well.
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