Welcome Friends to The Turk Blog. The Turk has his methods, and they work for me. One of those methods I employ is to not allow outside bias into my handicapping. Years ago I had a subscription to Bloodhorse, a wonderful magazine, and I would read about the horses, the trainers and the connections, and biases would form. I'm a sucker for a good story, who isn't? I'm also a degenerate gambler and there is no place in gambling for biases because the horse is named in memory of someone. I'm not a robot, I love a good human interest story, just after I handicap and place my bets. Occasionally that works against me as I guess I was one of the few people who didn't realize
Mindframe was going to be scratched. Generally I would see on my Past Performances "Also Entered" with a date and then I know its a chance, but this is a rare situation where two horses, trained by the same trainer, primarily owned by the same people, entered the same race planning to scratch one or the other. I don't think it's good for horse racing for best not to face best, but whatever.
The scratch changes nothing for me really and in fact makes my strategy easier. Only one beast,
Fierceness, needs to finish no better than Place, preferably no better than Show, and the exacta ticket gets saucy.
7-2-3 OVER 7-2-3-5-9, a $2 exacta for $24 dollars. It's pricier than I like or may do, but the handle will justify it. Here's hoping Fierceness drops to Show.
Turk Out!
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