Saratoga opening day 7/18

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Best of luck for the next 40 days Joey! Thanks for posting

race-7
#3 tiz sardonic joe
#1a regulas
#2 monument hill
#8 joes blazing aaron


Nice to see the two Joe horses in the same race......

Finished 8 - 3 - 2 - 6

Too bad the 3 threw a shoe while warming up... Rules state that that is an equipment change and horse can only race for PURSE MONEY.

Nice late DD $2 on 5/9 pays $17.20.
Thanks Joey!

Received a voice message from Joey... late night for me to call him Saturday Morning. So I did.

Joey said he had a very profitable day opening day at The SPA... Had the late Pick 4 ( Using all with top pick with top pick with 8,9 )
First leg, the 3 was racing for Purse Money Only ... and in the last leg the #8 was a late scratch.... 9 was the Favorite, so the #8 was considered in the payoff..... And the late Double ticket was cashed ... and the triple was hit in the last leg.

But you all know that if you were following.

What you do not know is ------

This morning (Saturday 7/19) Joey arrived early at The SPA for day 2 after handicapping Saturday's card all night. Now if you know Joey personally, you know he has medical issues.

He arrived before the anybody apparently and received assistance carrying his cooler into the backyard area...by someone that was working nearby. Joey put tablecloth material on three picnic tables and set the cooler on a table. Then left to get breakfast. When he arrived back to the handicap parking area, he checked out the area he stated out ... everything was gone !!!! . Security asked him what he was doing... he told him.... Security told Joey NOBODY is to be in the backyard until gates open at 7:00AM ... The Security Guard removed the cooler and threw the tablecloths in the trash barrel.

Then he told Joey ... that Joey had to stand in line with all the other people outside the gate until it opened.

No Problem... just a misunderstanding...

Joey waited in line.. gates opened ... then all HELL broke lose. it was like a heard of cattle on a stampede... and Joey was in the middle of the stampede. He was pushed and tripped and fell to the blacktop walkway. AND while there on the ground they were going over him... jumping, stepping over,, whatever it took so those A$$holes could get their tables. And there stood the Security Guard watching all this go down.

A lady do stop and try to help Joey up... but could not. Finally, three gentlemen came by and got Joey to his feet.

Joey is brushed up and has cuts and scraps on his body... He is on blood thinner .. so this is dangerous. I told him to get to the First Aid Station as soon as they open.

Kudos to the Security Guard for "doing his job" and kicking a person with difficulty getting around off the property because he was there a bit earlier than the others. And then NOT to offer assistance to that same person when he gets trampled down.


You are not going to hear or see this on the News or TV.. But it did happen.


Just think... you take your kids to the backyard for breakfast and watch the horses workout.... but you have to go thru a 50 yard dash thru HELL once the gates open,,,,,,,,, THAT IS UNCALLED FOR.


SUGGUESTION: NYRA hope you are reading this.... Put a number on the Picnic tables..... Put that same number on a tab of paper and in a pail, People want to use a picnic table.... Pay the $5 entrance fee ( after you pay a high parking fee) and then pull a tab of paper out of the pail for the number of tables you need. THEN you can WALK to the table number... NOBODY gets hurt.


Hope you are okay Joey..

Win BIG today !

JOEYP picks for...

Saratoga day 2 Saturday 7/19/2014

race-1
5- BULLY PROOF Main Track Only
8- MR. DISCREET
6- LUCK OF THE KITTEN
7- KAMARIUS
2- DUBAI SKY

race-2
9- GROUPTHINK (key)
7-SAY MR. SANDMAN
5-HANDY STAN
3- SIDEARM

race-3
3-CONTRARY OPINION (key)
4- TAGHLEEB (key)
5- COSMIC GOLD
2-OKLAHOMA ACE

race-4
2- BLAME JIM (key)
7- MONEY CHANGER
4- NOW WE ARE FREE
6-BOLD CONQUEST

race-5
4-PIQUANT............ (key)
1-BE BULLISH................... (key the 1 & 1A also)
1A-CHEROKEE ARTIST
8-ONE KING'S MAN
6-FRAZIL



race-6
8-READYHEARTANDSOUL BEST BET
12- THURGOOD
10-BOSTON STRONG
11- FOREVER UTOPIA
4-VISCHER FERRY with Alex Solis ( will be installed into Hall of Fame this Year)

race-7
8- NONNA'S BOY (key)
9- CINCO CHARLIE
7-BESSIE'S BOY
4-BIG TROUBLE


race-8
9-TASMONA....... (key)
10- DEVILISH LOVE .(key)
5- STOCK FUND
7- HOLIDAY'S JEWEL

race-9 any of these for can win... too close
10-NORTH STAR BOY
2- PYRITE MOUNTAIN
4- HARD ENOUGH
5-STAR CHANNEL


race-10
8-ALTERITE
6-DISCREET MARQ
2- ABACO
5-STRATHNAVER

race-11 -- BOMBS Away
3- ALARMED NDANGEROUS
7- MCILROY
1- JONRAH
6-ALAKAZAN ALAKAZAN
2- ALL INCLUDED


Race 10 to Race 11 doubles...

$3.00 double ...8 with 1,2,3,6,7 ($15)
$3.00 double ... 6 with 1,2,3,6,7 ($15)
$2.00 double ... 2,5,6,8 with 1,3,7 ($24)

Race 11

10 cent Superfectas

Box 1,2,3,6,7 ($12)

1,3,7 w 1,3,7 w 1,2,3,6,7,9 with 1,2,6,9 ($6)


GOOD LUCK.... stop by to say Hi if you are in the BackYard Area ...... Joeyp

Day 3 ... Sunday 7/20/2014 Joeyp is still at THE SPA.

Sorry for the late post, Joey was taken to Customer Service today by a different Security Guard.... over his ordeal he went thru yesterday.

Kudos to That Security Person and to NYRA Customer Service !

Joeyp called me with his picks for ---


Saratoga Day 3 Sunday 7/20/2014

race 1

6- TAX PACKAGE (KEY)
7- SANDLER ....(KEY)
2- NAVY BLUE
4-DESERT MILLION

race-2
1A - GROOMEDFORVICTORY (key)
4-MOST HAPPY FELLA
2-TIZMAS
5-STEPHEN A


Suggested Daily Double..... DD 6,7 with 1A and DD 6 with 1A


more to come ....

Joeyp picks for Sunday 7/20/2014 Continued

race 3

1-MARIEL N KATHY......key with
2- RED HOT TWEET
5- SCAMPERING
6-MAXIMOVA

race 4

5-DENZEL ... with
4- GLICKMAN
7- IN THE DARK
1- CAROLINIAN

race 5

2- STRONG IMPACT............KEY
6- SPRING TO THE SKY......key
3- GREAT ATTACK
5-GO BLUE OR GO HOME

race 6

1- NINEINTHENINE ... long shot play
9- DREAMING OF DANNY
2- LAY IT DOWN
4- GOURMET DINNER

race 7

9-EIGHTY THREE BEST
1-HIDDEN CANDY
8- DR. HAL
2- ETERNAL BULL

$2 exb 1,8,9 $4 exb 8/9 also 2/9 ; $6 exb 1/9

race 8

1- COUSIN MICHAEL...... KEY
8-ULTIMATE EMPIRE
3-SATURDAY APPEAL
6- SIR LESLIE

race 9 BOMBS away ....

9-PRINCESS MARA.... another longshot pick
4-INDIAN STARLIGHT
6- KITTEN'S QUEEN
5- SILKY


race 10

2-UNBRIDLED FOREVER
1- STOPCHARGINGMARIA
3-MISS BESILU
6- TAKETHEODDS

race 11

1-DOWNGOESFRAZIER
11- HUSHHUSHMUSHMUSH
3-WAKE UP AND GO
9-RONTOS NEW YORK
6-ISLAND THERAPY

10 cent superfecta box 1,3,6,9,11 ( $12)


Suggested Race 10 doubles

$8 Double 1,2 with 1,11



Good Luck !

Joey I hope all is well.

I gave up on getting picnic tables up at the spa. Between the chaos of entering the track in the morning and people not respecting traditions, it's become a shit show. Most of these people are there for excitement and getting drunk, not the ponies.... It's sad.

I tend to stay posted up in the clubhouse most days I attend. A lot easier entering the track at noon.

Dont even know how to respond to that episode, spa employees see a patron struggling walking slowly to setup shop a little early, where is their common sense, non athletic bullies with no brains. Hope all is better now, gremlin thanks for posting.

FYI.... Joeyp is back home after spending opening weekend at THE "SPA" Saratoga Race Course.

Nursing his sore body.... but he Survived !

********** You can see his Saratoga selections for Monday 7/21/2014 in his thread "JOEYP's PONY EXPRESS."

Thanks Joey for all of your insight and glad to hear that you have arrived back home safely.

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