The Nomination Is In: The Santa Anita Handicap G1
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3w ago
  Newgrange: Benoit Photo Welcome Friends to The Turk Blog, now in our 17th year of writing handicaps and assembling bets.    While I primary write about Turf Handicapping and Exacta Betting, I still keep my dirt chops up to speed.  Thanks to the good people at The Thorofan who asked me to write for this week's Handicappers Corner, I'm writing about the Santa Anita Handicap this week.   If you haven't seen, the race has been moved to Sunday due to rain concerns Saturday.  I'm handicapping as if it's a fast track and will adjust accordingly.  Yo ..read more
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Post Race Analysis: The Mother Goose. "It's Just Numbers and Patterns"
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5M ago
 It's just numbers and pattern recognition.  While there are always outliers, if you approach your handicapping from the same place mentally, with the same application of thoughts applied to the runners, if you avoid the greatest traps of all, "the biases", you'll likely predict winners regularly and be successful with your handicap to at least have a fighting chance at assembling a proper bet.   Two different sides of the coin, handicapping and bet construction.  I am a top shelf handicapper, especially with my approach to only handicapping in low volumes, but I'm j ..read more
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The Nomination Is In: The Grade 2 Mother Goose at Aqueduct (It's not Belmont!)
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5M ago
  Xigera:  Photo credit Coady Photography (thank you)  Welcome friends to The Turk Blog.  I'd like to thank the good people of The Thorofan for allowing me to share my thoughts with you today.   I've been on a Handicappers Holiday since late August.  Just like the horses need to go the the farm and freshen up, I find that my handicapping is better when I take some time away.  I've already started Breeders' Cup video preparation so this weekend is a good time for me to start looking at past performances again, and The Mother Goose at Belmont at ..read more
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The Nomination Is In: The G1(T) Sword Dancer and the G1 Travers Stakes
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7M ago
Three Generations of Turk: 2007  Welcome Friends to the Turk Blog, where we specialize in turf handicapping and exacta bet construction.  I was telling a co-Worker friend of mine this past week that I started using "The Turk" moniker because I was afraid that my employers would think I did not take my fiduciary responsibilities seriously if I was a gambler (and in my case gambler is lower case g.) How the times have changed in modern society, where just in my lifetime you couldn't get a corporate job with long hair, long beard and tattoos, or in my case, by being a degenerat ..read more
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The Nomination Is In: The King Edward G2 at Woodbine
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7M ago
  Welcome friends to The Turk Blog, where I specialize in Turf Handicapping and Exacta Bet construction.  Today's focus is on Woodbine's The King Edward Grade 2.  How does the Turk pick which races he plans to handicap? I think one of my strengths as a handicapper is my experience handicapping all tracks, ages, surfaces, sexes, distances  and class over decades, but also my refinement of my turf racing eye. You'll find me handicapping most weekends 8-10 furlong races with fields of at least 8.  That's what makes the blogging interesting.  I generally use ..read more
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The Nomination Is In: Colonial Downs Turf Festival featuring the "Arlington" Million
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8M ago
 Welcome Friends to The Turk Blog, with over 700 Blog Posts over the past 16 race seasons.  My primary focus is turf handicapping and exacta betting.   The Turk's connection to Arlington was deep.  I've told the story many times, but I was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Training Center the night of the fire on 31 July 1985.  I was volun-ordered to get on a truck and about 15 of us were there helping with traffic and running supplies.  Flash forward and Arlington became a love of mine, with its lush turf and international turf festival.  It was my first ..read more
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The Nomination Is In: The Grade 1 Whitney at Saratoga
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8M ago
Charge It: Adam Coglianese Photo (Thanks)  Welcome Friends to The Turk Blog.  I'd like to thank the good people of The Thorofan for allowing me to share my thoughts on this race with you today.  The Turk is in the Spa! Yes, for the first time since before COVID, I'm returning to Saratoga.   I lived in Saratoga in 1986 while I was training to operate Nuclear Reactors for the US Navy.  It was the 1986 meet where this casual horse racing fan from my childhood  became a closet race fan before embracing my red ink pen and nerdy handicapper persona after l ..read more
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The Nomination Is In: The Eddie Reed Grade 2
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8M ago
 Welcome Friends to The Turk Blog, where I focus on older horses running over a route of grass, with exacta bet constructions.  I choose not to play a rather soggy day our East, and while I was interested in The Bowling Green at Saratoga, my concern for the turf conditions made up my mind for me.  Del Mar's Eddie Reed G2 is an interesting nine horse field.  My first time through the PP's and I didn't have a single horse that I thought deserved chalk or even a Turk rating of A.  700 plus handicaps blogged over 15 years and I don't remember a Grade 2  I was this to ..read more
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The Nomination Is In: The Connaught Cup G2 at Woodbine
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8M ago
 Welcome Friends to The Turk blog.  I've been a handicapper since 1986 and a Horse Racing Blogger since 2008 with a general specialization of older horses running across a route of grass with exacta bet constructions.  I've been flexing my turf sprint chops over the last few weeks for a change of pace as I like to make sure I don't ignore my handicapping on these sort of races.  I've been handicapping for a long time, and my approach to how I analyze a race has been refined over a long period of time.  My influences are pretty standard for handicappers of my generatio ..read more
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The Nomination Is In: Haskell Day Jersey Shore Pick 6 Races 8-13
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8M ago
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