[caption id="attachment_2858" align="alignright" width="270" caption="Janine Smith. All smiles after winning with Prairie Eclipse Friday night."][/caption] by George Paul Nolan scored a hat trick with wins in the first, second and sixth races on Friday night at the Downs, Adrian Ramos won a pair and Janine Smith booted home Prairie Eclipse in the seventh to…
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Heavy favourites win ASD stakes, Pick-4 pool swells to $44,534
[caption id="attachment_2730" align="alignright" width="243" caption="Happy crew with Agassiz winner C.C. Ride."][/caption] by George Favourites scored in five of the eight races on Saturday night at the Downs, including the $30,000 Agassiz and the $30,000 Distaff, and the Pick-4 carryover from Friday night stimulated the pool to reach an astonishing $44,534 before the fourth race.…
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Zdeno wins $40,000 Sales Stakes, 20-1 Ancellotta creates $5,501 Pick-4 carryover
[caption id="attachment_2713" align="alignright" width="270" caption="Zdeno wins 2013 CTHS Sales Stakes at ASD, Tyrone Nelson up."][/caption] by George You could just tell it was going to be a weird night after jockey Jerry Pruitt put the field to sleep with the longest shot on the board in the first race. Polar Breeze got away with…
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Rob’s ASD Picks and Wagering Strategies for August 16-17, 2013
by Rob A few years ago a long-time owner and racegoer Bob King spent a month narrating his picks in a blog. His musings, as wacky and off-beat as they might have been, were sometimes interesting to read. Over the last five weeks of the season that’s what I have set out to do,…
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Jockey’s first local win sets off huge Pick-4 payoff
[caption id="attachment_2649" align="alignright" width="270" caption="Hilario Estrella & Adieu My Friend at 24-1. Congrats! Click Image to Watch."][/caption] Estrella wins final two races Saturday night with wide rallies in wet stuff by George Jockey Hilario Estrella came flying home aboard Adieu My Friend in Saturday night’s seventh race at ASD to nail heavy favourite Flying…
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Wacky Friday night longshots result in Pick-4 Carryover of $4,299 into Saturday night
[caption id="attachment_355" align="alignright" width="182" caption="Told you I would win that one!"][/caption] by George Friday night at the Downs started off great for the chalk players and got progressively wackier, which was good news for the longshot players but bad news for the Pick-4 players. The latter will be back at it again tonight to take…
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