Collecting Horse Racing Memories

I love collecting horse racing memorabilia because I get to keep a little piece of racing history.

Monmouth Park’s biggest day of the year is the Haskell. There is great racing and a really big crowd. A lot of the crowd comes to increase their collection of racing memorabilia with the traditional Haskell Hat giveaway. Monmouth has been giving hats away since at least 1988. Read more at HorseRacingNation.com http://tinyurl.com/3cjn3ra

Day 18 - June 25, 2011

These plays assume that the only race that will be on the turf is the 10th, the G3 Boiling Springs. Also I tried to figure which horses would scratch out of the other turf races 4 and 8. So in the 50¢ Pick 5 I will offer one caveman ticket that could be altered by scratches.

In the 50¢ Place Pick 6 let's go: 4,11, (7) with 4,5,6 with 2,3 with 4 with 6,8 with 3,4,5. That's our max play of $36. If there is a scratch somewhere we may substitute the (7) into the first leg.

9:21pm - update - 3 out of 5 and 4 out of 6 today. The Pick 6 started well, though.
Sunday is a day off, as I have to take my son to sleep away camp.

Day 17 - Friday, June 24, 2011

10:15am - update - OFF the turf today. That will change races 5,7, and 9. So, big changes to come!

2:35pm-update-The pick 5 play has become: 1,3,7 with 2,4 with 4,5,6 with 2 with 5,7,8 for $27. The Place Pick 6, which has already become a loss because the first leg had a 55-1 and 5-1, was 1,4,5 with 1,5, with 1,7 with 2,4 with 5,6 with 2 for $24.

6:01pm-update-In the Pick 5, we were 3 out of 5 with 2 second place finishes. The Place Pick 6 produced 5 out of 6 with one exacta. Once again, so close, to the $512.20 payout.

Here are preliminary picks for Day 17 at Monmouth. Check back tomorrow for changes if the weather is wet. I have had a good week thus far, so I hope I can keep rolling. In the 50¢ Pick 5, there is an all top choice pick for $24 and one ticket that includes those horses and 3 back-ups for a total of $81.In the 50¢ Place Pick 6, where we are still ahead $124 for the meeting, the ticket is: 1,4,5 with 5, with 1,7 with 4,5 with 4,6 with 1,3,5. The cost is $36, which I have established has my maximum investment. I hope you had a chance to read my blog about "Putting the Sting on the Place Pick 6" on HorseRacingNation.com. It is linked in the previous blog.

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Putting the Sting on the Place Pick 6

Since I have only been blogging for a month or so, you may not know that I have a tendency to get fascinated with certain activities. Lately I have become obsessed with the Place Pick 6 wager that is offered at Monmouth...

Read the rest of my HorseRacingNation.com blog about the Place Pick 6.
http://www.horseracingnation.com/blogs/Monmouth/Putting_the_Sting_on_the_Place_Pick_6_123

Remember that we are still $124 ahead in the Place Pick 6 for the first 16 days of racing.

Day 16 - Sunday, June 19, 2011 - Father's Day

Going up late is a small 50¢ Place Pick 6: 6 with 2,3 with 8,9 with 4,5,6 with 8, 12 with 1. Cost is $12.

Day 15 - Saturday, June 18, 2011 - Some Place Pick 6 Theory

Wow, I am still upset about yesterday's Pick 6. We just missed a really good pay day. My belief with the Place Pick 6 is that you can only make the ticket but so big because you can easily pick 6 and have a losing payout. Success hinges on catching an exacta and/or sharing the place spot with some longshots. Both of those happened for us yesterday, but we blanked on the first leg. We hit two exactas and had a 9-1 horse share the place spots with a big longshot. Once again, I say arghhh!

Anyway, onward and upward with the Saturday card, which includes a race 8 that is about as wide open as any race I have ever seen. The $65K conditional claimer/NW3 is scheduled as a route on the turf. Because of the nature of the card the 50¢ Place Pick 6 ticket is taking on an unusual shape with 3 singles and 3 wide spreads: 8 with 3,4,5,8 with 3 with 3 with 1,4,5,8,9,11 with 2,3,6. That has a cost of $36.

The 50¢ Pick 5 ticket will have a similar shape, starting with 2 singles and then 3 spread races. I have a busy Saturday, so I will not be able to post scratches, so be sure to check them to see how the tickets may be changed.

GOOD LUCK!

UPDATE - 10:10pm - With the scratch of the #3 in race 6 both of our plays in the Pick 5 and Pick 6 were wiped out. Sorry, I couldn't get revised plays posted. I hope some of you made some winning changes. There were 2 exactas in the Place Pick 6.

Day 14 - Friday, June 17, 2011

UPDATE-5:00pm-After missing leg 1 of the pick 6, we went 5 for 5 the rest of the way. That included 2 exactas, so if we had hit the first leg we would have had 4 winning tickets! ARGHHH!

UPDATE-12:15pm-Another scratch, this time the #5 in race 6. So, I will substitute the #4 for the #5 in both the Pick 5 and Pick 6.

UPDATE-11:08am-Scratch #1 in race 7. Still on the turf, main track is fast. That reduces the Pick 5 to $108. In the Place Pick 6 substitute the #4 in race 7, that play becomes: 4,5 with 2 with 5,6 with 2,4 with 1,2 with 4,6,8. Cost will still be $24.

OK, is everybody all refreshed since Belmont weekend? Good, so let's go get it. In the 50¢ Pick 5 we will use one ticket because it turns out to be basically the same cost as using the backup tickets. Cost will be $144.
In the 50¢ Place Pick 6, where we are still up $172 for the meeting (the summary box is posted in the right margin), the ticket is: 4,5 with 2 with 5,6 with 1,2 with 1,2 with 4,6,8. Cost will be $24.

Don't forget this is Father's Day Weekend. If you have not read my Father's Day blog on HorseRacingNation.com, please don't miss it. The blog is being featured in the first HRN e-mail newsletter.
http://www.horseracingnation.com/blogs/Monmouth/Father_s_Day_Should_Be_a_Family_Day_123