June 15

June 15: One Win On Travel Day - A VERY GOOD Week!

Today was the sad goodbye day as we left Houston mid-morning and were in the air the majority of the day, arriving home around 9:30 pm. I had made my selections online before we left the hotel in Houston and spent the first part of the day at Jeff & Antoinette's with Cameron.

Once we were back in Ft. Lauderdale I was able to watch the replays of the six races I had selected for the day. I was in the money in five of the six, but only won one of them. In the 5th Defoe Street was TONS the best and won under wraps. I had two other good chances at wins - in the 2nd I led into the stretch, before being caught late and in the 8th and featured allowance on the turf I had a good price on Tropic (2/1). She was the class of the field and saved ground into the turn. Jockey Corey Lanerie decided to stay inside and look for a seam rather than hook wide into the turn. He found one, but at the 1/8th pole he had to check sharply as Tropic came to a near dead stop, she re-gained her momentum and was blocked; finally at the 16th pole Lanerie made a hard right hand turn, shifted out four wide and once Tropic saw green grass she was flying, but by then the eventual winner had built up a four length lead and it was too much to overcome, second - again.   Still it was an excellent week of handicapping, despite being away for the week! My numbers for this week at Churchill Downs:

22 / 10 - 3 - 2 ..... 45% WINS .....+ $46.50