March 16 Oaklawn Park Races 3-11 ROI Wagers go here

[JolyB]

Please have your ROI Wagers for Oaklawn Park posted on this thread not later than 2:11 PM Central Daylight Time. We are only playing Races 3 through 11, so you will need to limit your wagers to only those races.

Good luck to all and thank you to Real Quiet for scoring.

[Roamin42]

Race 9
$100 WIN--->#2 HENCE

[ElPrado]

R3) $20 win #7

R5) $20 win #6

R6) $20. win #12

R11) $40 win #5

Thank you, Pete !

[DonGuido]

Race 7 $4 Pick 4 = $100
1,2,4,5,6/9/2,3,7,8,9/5

All up to you Bobby . . . Enjoy the Day!!!

[Real Quiet]

Race 3 $16 ex key 9 w 2-3-10 ($48)

Race 5 $16 ex key 2 w 4-6-8 ($48)

Race 11 10 cent super 8-10 w 6-8-9-10 w 6-8-9-10 w 1-4-6-8-9-10 ($3.60)

[JolyB]

Originally Posted by DonGuido

Race 7 $4 Pick 4 = $100
2,3,4,5,6/9/2,3,7,8,9/5

All up to you Bobby . . . Enjoy the Day!!!

My compliments to you for putting such a bold pick 4 ticket together. If you have a strong opinion on the undefeated Baffert shippers, that's a great way to express it.

I'm in the process of trying a pick 4 array on the same races, but it doesn't reflect quite the same level of confidence in either Improbable or Game Winner. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out.

[ElPrado]

Of course, if I like a horse, the vet does not.

Change to my ROI.

R6... NO BET

R7 .... $20 win #4

R11 .... no bet

R8.... $40 win #9

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by JolyB

My compliments to you for putting such a bold pick 4 ticket together. If you have a strong opinion on the undefeated Baffert shippers, that's a great way to express it.

I'm in the process of trying a pick 4 array on the same races, but it doesn't reflect quite the same level of confidence in either Improbable or Game Winner. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out.

I'll give you 10-1 odds that one of them will lose (or both) since I picked them both, but I'm going with my gut and as you say with my confidence in Mr. Baffert being pretty darn good at shipping and getting his top horses ready to run.

[Plenilune]

r3 $50 W #9

r11 $50 W #6

[JolyB]

My apologies to RQ for this Pick 4 mélange. I wanted to try to cover my "A"'s and include my "B"'s, but ran into a problem with Race 9. I simply am at a loss about whom to include or exclude in the Essex and ended up kind of throwing them up against the wall to see which ones would stick. I think I ended up making a case for every horse in the race, and then made the case against just about every horse in the race. The resulting wagers are messy. I'm sorry for making your scoring more difficult than it is.

Race 7
$4 Pick 4: 5 / 9 / 2,3,8 / 5,6 ($24)
$2 Pick 4: 2,5 / 9 / 2,3,6,7,8 / 5 ($20)
$1 Pick 4: 2,5 / 1,8 / 2,3,6,7,8 / 5 ($20)
$1 Pick 4: 2,5 / 9 / 2,3,6,7,8 / 6,7 ($20)
$1 Pick 4: 1 / 9 / 2,3,7,8 / 5,6,7 ($12)
$1 Pick 4: 5 / 9 / 2,3,7,8 / 2 ($4)

Good luck to all and enjoy a great day of racing.

[DonGuido]

Originally Posted by DonGuido

I'll give you 10-1 odds that one of them will lose (or both) since I picked them both, but I'm going with my gut and as you say with my confidence in Mr. Baffert being pretty darn good at shipping and getting his top horses ready to run.

Just like I said the Baffert studs could lose one or both and the stinkers were edged and messed up my Pick 4 and probably thousands of others as well. And that my friends is horse racing.

We've been spoiled by Bob the last few years showing us amaaaaaaazing 3YO's. It's hard to get off his bandwagon but I don't see the same magic for him going into the thick of the Derby or TC this year . . . that said, I probably just gave him the back handed Irish Luck he needs with about 6 weeks or so to go!!! Ya just never know, do ya?

[JolyB]

Originally Posted by DonGuido

Just like I said the Baffert studs could lose one or both and the stinkers were edged and messed up my Pick 4 and probably thousands of others as well. And that my friends is horse racing.

We've been spoiled by Bob the last few years showing us amaaaaaaazing 3YO's. It's hard to get off his bandwagon but I don't see the same magic for him going into the thick of the Derby or TC this year . . . that said, I probably just gave him the back handed Irish Luck he needs with about 6 weeks or so to go!!! Ya just never know, do ya?

Other than burning a lot of players' money, neither one of the Baffert horses embarrassed themselves. Both were coming off of layoffs, had to ship unexpectedly and may have had their training regimen thrown off by the cancellation of the San Felipe. Improbable was forced wide of the first turn by Galilean, then stayed on the outside and was just as wide on the final turn and was run down by Long Range Toddy, who was able to get a small breather near the end of the backstretch and save ground on the final turn. Game Winner didn't show a great turn of foot, but was slowly getting to a very game Omaha Beach when the wire came up. They were a long ways ahead of the rest of the field.

I was amazed how closely the two races matched one another in their times. The second division was perhaps 0.20 seconds faster for the first two splits, while the first division ran a little faster through the next half mile. The final times of the two were within 0.07 seconds of one another.

I think that both of them got a lot out of the race. How they perform in their respective final preps (one of them to the Ark Derby and the other, hopefully, to the Santa Anita Derby) will be the best yardstick.

A question for all of you. Does anyone know how they came up with the name for Long Range Toddy? I've speculated that an owner had a grandson named Todd who is a terrific three point shooter, but that might be because I've been immersing myself in the NCAA Brackets as March Madness sets in.

[Indian Hemp]

race 6

$50 WIN

7

race 11

$50 WIN

10

thx rq and good luck