Greetings from beautiful Saratoga! Although yesterday (Friday) brought the usual afternoon deluge (preceded by the usual Thursday afternoon deluge) -
today - Alabama Stakes day - promises to be dry and sunny and just a beautiful day to be at the races, with friends, beautiful horses and bettable races!
Yesterday the Pace and Cap attendees started to roll into town and we had a great showing in the Festival tent. Wagercapper (Paul), tazzerbobo (Don), Bert Mane, Gandalf (Charlie B), My Pagine (Jon) and his dad Brian from Toronto, Pilot (Wayne), Mike T, lsos54 (Lou S) joined Mum and me during the day and again at the seminar in the evening.
I'll have some photos later as either Mum or I get some free time. Mum took some video of parts of the evening seminar and when we get those stitched together, we'll get those posted too.
We had a great timer at the seminar (by several accounts), where the folks from NHPLAY dropped by and made a presentation about their services, the notion of a Player's Union - from a betting stand point. Then the ('irReverend'
) Bert Mayne gave a rousing sermon (I mean talk
) about his experiences with the Sartin Methodology from 1984 up until today (including yesterday, where he cashed a nice bet on that SAR Race 2 $30 winner). Also his thoughts on the 'inner game' of handicapping. I made a presentation on RDSS2 and took some questions, then as is our tradition, Charlie B lead us in an analysis of today's Alabama Stakes and Sword Dancer Stakes. The heat was on to keep up the record of 4 years winning predictions in a row.
So today, with the promise of no rain, some great stakes and mostly playable other races - we move into Day 2 of our get together -
wishing you were here!
Some photos to come, soon hopefully. Wishing you all a fine weekend of racing!
cheers,
Ted