As many of you, who are Race Day Las Vegas listenes know, I have started a feature — the Mystery Value Play.  These are horses that must have a big price attached to them – so they are most likely to be LOW FREQUENCY types of plays.  Often a handicapper will see some obvious flaws in the horse, but from a perspective of the Power Page these horses should be used in your exotics or even be the Key horse from time to time…   I am simply trying to get YOU to look beyond the top two horse before you make your final decision…  If I may “RED BOARD” a perfect example of a probably MVH occurred in the final race at Los Alamitos on Sunday.  Paralyszing Eyes was rated 2nd on the Power Page  — actually ran 2nd palying a whopping $23.00 to place !  Now here is the interesting aspect of the play, I picked my Top Rated horse, Pat Picked the winner Acategoryfivestorm (who actually won paying $6.20) and Ed B. picked yet another horse – Afternoon Weekend.  So the value question is pretty obvious that you can make a big difference in your bankroll with a $23.00 place horse — naturally with Acategoryfivesstorm as the fav – you would likely have a nice exaca with Paralyzng Eyes …

The point is simple, we should all spend some of our handicapping energy, looking deep into the race and including some of these longshots — if not to bet as your Key to include in the exotics…  If  any of us had done that on Sunday, we would have had two chances (out of a few possibilites) to cash…  For those of you who were following Pat’s selection, you ch=ould easily have made a nice exacta with Paralyzing Eyes…  For those of you who made a nice win/place bet on PE, then you could have picked up an exacta with the fav – who was Acategoryfivestorm….  My point again — including chancy but value rich horses in your play makes great sense to your pocketbook…  But as I remind you — these long price wonders to hit at a Lower Frequency….

So much to share/say… First – congrats to Bob Baffert for the outstanding training job on Bayern — who may well be getting good enough to be one of the best of this generation…  This is turning out to be a heck of a 3 year old crop with CC, Shared Belief, Wicked Strong, Tonalist and a few other very nice runners from this crop.

Secondly, has it ever occurred to anyone that the trainer is responsible for how fit the horse is and not the jockey.  I simply can’t believe that Art Sherman — in his disappointment — starts to point a finger at Espinoza because he took a tuck and sat the pocket instead of getting out and battling head to head with Bayern.   Whether or not — if California Chrome doesn’t love to be sitting in the catbird seat — when the running came,  HE HAD NO RUN!  That is the fault or the plan of the trainer.  If Art Sherman — who was a jockey — thinks his comments were fair — I DO NOT AGREED…  I think they were UNFAIR!  But one thing that Art Sherman did do, was vindicate CC’s ride in the Belmont — in that one, he gave up his pristine position on the rail to take an outside trip that failed to work!  Which is it!!!!!

I assume CC was untrained and will be a bit more lively in the BC….

Thirdly — Untapable is unmatched in the filly division right now…