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    8 Great Reasons To Bet Horses This Weekend

    Keeneland Friday's card is shaping up well, featuring the return of Malathaat in the Doubledogdare Stakes (G3)

    Saturday at Keeneland will be great, with the Elkhorn (G2) and Ben Ali (G3).
    Millionaire Mighty Heart faces off against morning line favorite Warrant in the Ben Ali, while veteran gelding Channel Maker headlines the Elkhorn

    All-Stakes Cross Country Pick 5 this week, featuring racing from Aqueduct & Oaklawn

    Oaklawn's 12 race Saturday card starts at 1:10 PM ET, with the Apple Blossom going as race 5 at 3:18 PM ET

    A quintet of stakes and an average field size of 9 at Laurel this Saturday

    Final Week for the Aqueduct Saturday

    Stay up late and see if Golden Sixty can win Hong Kong's FWD Champions Mile - if he wins he'll be the highest prize money earner in Hong Kong racing history

    Sunday at Aqueduct is Closing Day of the Spring Meet - so all multi-leg pools are mandatory payouts

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    get em gold

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    Pro horse player here

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    Y r horse racing odds so bad???

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    Because the takeout is shit and the public pounds favorites

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    Quote Originally Posted by johnnyvegas13 View Post
    Y r horse racing odds so bad???
    Good insight, John. Think it's just that the horse-racing game has pretty small margins.

    Think about how many man-hours go into prep for running a race. That's before the upkeep of the grounds and paying for horses/feed. You pay a winner's share. You take some $$ out of the betting pool.

    Yes, horse-betting is one of the worst investments imaginable. Depending on the state, 18% of the parimutuel pool $ is sucked out before you have a chance to re-coup it. Just so hard to clear a profit after that robbery.

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    good summary of the weekend action. also starting April 25th Derby Oaks workout mornings streaming on twinspires and youtube for all the latest Derby news...

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    Who was the resident horse guy here with the videos. Dont remember his handle.

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    Zippy chippy 30 dies. Goes out a 0-100 loser. Never won a race. Started in the mid 90's raced until he was 13. Started at Belmont raced at Finger lakes a lot. Poor horse. Died a loser.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sunshine11 View Post
    Zippy chippy 30 dies. Goes out a 0-100 loser. Never won a race. Started in the mid 90's raced until he was 13. Started at Belmont raced at Finger lakes a lot. Poor horse. Died a loser.
    Not sunny shiner

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    Goldy, motivational video for Weekend action:


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    Let's get it shooter!

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    Sunshine good one

    Playing more supers now

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    JJ when is your horse running again??

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    I have many
    One today



    They say the third time is the charm, and we are holding that thought as Miss Sakamoto looks to break her maiden against the boys on Friday in the first race at Gulfstream Park. Breaking from post five of seven with Junior Alvarado aboard, Miss Sakamoto has been made the favorite with morning-line odds of 6-5. Post time for the first race of the day at Gulfstream Park is 1:05 p.m. ET.

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    Currently 1/9 😂

    Pass

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    Freehold

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    Hollywood park casino

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    1/5 exacta

    Let's go!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gauchojake View Post
    Currently 1/9 

    Pass
    Swear to god I hate parimutuel. Anybody with a clue bets into the pool, odds shoot to the moon.

    So unlike Fixed Odds betting. Unless it's a huge un-informed pool (like the KY Derby), I don't see how the hell one can expect to beat the daily parimutuel odds.
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    Helps to have inside info Chucky.

    And even then the margins are tight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChuckyTheGoat View Post
    Swear to god I hate parimutuel. Anybody with a clue bets into the pool, odds shoot to the moon.

    So unlike Fixed Odds betting. Unless it's a huge un-informed pool (like the KY Derby), I don't see how the hell one can expect to beat the daily parimutuel odds.
    I was surprised that the uk books did not bring fixed odds betting with them when they got into the mix with US sportsbooks. I cannot bet into US pools and make money, I can however make money betting fixed odds using uk books on USA horse racing.
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    Fixed odds would be awesome.

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    East winner Gulfstream

    Miss Sakamoto

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    USA laws different

    Fixed horse odds betting is permitted

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    One of my horses today



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    Good win boss

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    At least got back to 1/1

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Keeneland Friday's card is shaping up well, featuring the return of Malathaat in the Doubledogdare Stakes (G3)

    Saturday at Keeneland will be great, with the Elkhorn (G2) and Ben Ali (G3).
    Millionaire Mighty Heart faces off against morning line favorite Warrant in the Ben Ali, while veteran gelding Channel Maker headlines the Elkhorn

    All-Stakes Cross Country Pick 5 this week, featuring racing from Aqueduct & Oaklawn

    Oaklawn's 12 race Saturday card starts at 1:10 PM ET, with the Apple Blossom going as race 5 at 3:18 PM ET

    A quintet of stakes and an average field size of 9 at Laurel this Saturday

    Final Week for the Aqueduct Saturday

    Stay up late and see if Golden Sixty can win Hong Kong's FWD Champions Mile - if he wins he'll be the highest prize money earner in Hong Kong racing history

    Sunday at Aqueduct is Closing Day of the Spring Meet - so all multi-leg pools are mandatory payouts
    Where did you copy and paste from?

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    Some racing site

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    Quote Originally Posted by gauchojake View Post
    Fixed odds would be awesome.
    It will happen eventually. I just figured it would happen much quicker once flutter/willhill etc got involved with the big players over here.

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    NJ had race exchange betfair went bankrupt 2 years ago

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    NJ had race exchange betfair went bankrupt 2 years ago
    They were there too early.
    Betfair still operates for usa markets, just not to US customers.

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    Imagine playing poker if they took 25%+ out of each pot/entry. Then try to beat the games.

    It's no wonder horse betting/racing is dead.

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