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Bet On Travers Stakes – Talent Search
It will not quite be the “Search for Bobby Fisher”but the hunt continues for a dominating sophomore this Saturday at Saratoga inthe $1 million Travers Stakes as Sports betting enthusiasts will have options.
For those of you betting horses,let’s examine the entrants alphabetically for a change for this mile and aq
uarter Grade 1 slugfest.
Bowman’s Causeway graduated in Florida but he wascrushed in the other stakes tries in the U.S. He was not exactly flattered offhis out of the money effort in the Queen’s
Plate as the winner that day cameback and was crush...
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Travers Stakes Betting – Trending The Travers
This week will be devoted to the Travers Stakes atSaratoga this weekend as today we’ll monitor where the recent winners have comefrom and later in the week we’ll get into the meat and potatoes of the raceitself.
The race is carded for 3-year-olds at a mile and aquarter and is sometimes referred to as the “Midsummer Derby.”
First run in 1864 and ironically won by a horseowned by the man the race was named for, William Travers. The first winner wasKentucky and some legends of the sport have won the Travers in days gone by.
Man o’War put his stamp on the Travers in 1920.Whirlaway took the 1941 renewal while ...
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Take Inglorious to Win Loaded Alabama
Who: Thoroughbreds – Royal Delta, Plum Pretty, It’s Tricky, St. John’s River,Inglorious What: Horse Racing Betting Tips – The Alabama Where: Saratoga When: Saturday,August 20th
The 3YO Filly Division is loaded this year, and it lookslike most of its heavy hitters will duke it out in Saturday’s Grade 1 Alabamaat Saratoga. The compact field of six sports a combined record of 38-21-7-5,with earnings of $3,393,825. That works out to $89,311 per start! The winner ofthis prestigious event will no doubt vault to the head of the class. I’mbetting it will be Inglorious. Let’slook at the field:
#1-Royal Delta (6-1): M...
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Alabama Stakes Betting – Sweet Home Alabama
Lynyrd Skynyrd brought the tune ‘Sweet Home Alabama’to the masses but those in upstate New York have been singing the praises aboutthe Alabama Stakes winners for decades and the Grade 1 fixture will be renewedSaturday at Saratoga at a mile and a quarter on dirt.
Star after star over the years and sophomore fillieswith names like Banshee Breeze, Heavenly Prize, Shuvee, and Go for Wand havebeen celebrated in the charmed winner’s circle and last year Blind Luck wascoming off a win in the Grade 2 Del Mar Oaks before shipping across the countryto come from 6 lengths back and get up by a neck with a 100 Beyer.
Two of the...
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Northern Illinois Huskies Betting – 2011 Northern Illinois Huskies College Football Preview
Even the MLB baseballbetting experts who focus on the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox know that Northern Illinois University’s football program had avery difficult month of December in 2010. The Huskies were one fourth-down stopaway from beating Miami University in the Mid-American Conference ChampionshipGame in Detroit, but the NIU secondary sprang a leak and allowed Miami toconvert and eventually score a game-winning touchdown. That setback rippedthrough the Huskies’ locker room, but that was just the beginning of theheartache for the Huskies. Plenty of sports betting gurus noticed...
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