Monday was a truely great day for the Power Page, we had sup longshot KUNE KUNE with a STAR who ultimately paid  $31.50 to place and made a $250.00 exacta with our Top rated horse, the natural hookup…  And we finished with flurry with the last three Top Rated horses winning for a cold late PICK-3 for those of you who play that sort of play… Additionally, there were two other STAR horses that won…

So the big question is “what exactly is a STAR horse”?

The answer – “It’s a horse that I feel could be better than the number I assign it!”

Let me muse on — so let’s say I am going through my handicapping material and I have two horses who both ran about the same number, but because of some particular factor (known only to me) that one of them has a bigger upside – then that horse might get a STAR.  Now let me add this, the reason I think the horse deserves a STAR has nothing to do with the Trainer, The Jockey or any of the basic stuff you can see in there past performances.   So it’s a little bit private and proprietary and while you might want to know what give, it’s better off held “tightly” by me….  That way, the STAR horses are always available to you and not easily identified by the rest of the betting public.

What do do with STAR horses…  well you have to decide if you want to use them as a KEY or if you simply want to use it as an add-in in your exotics…  I am not touting…it’s always up to you…

SShared Belief and Wicked Strong have established themselves as the two best RIGHT NOW.  The top four are SB, WS, Cali Chrome and Tonalist and I can’t wait for them to square off .   I would like to offer an opinion and see if it turns out to be true when I do the figs on Wednesday or Thursday from this weekend.  That Wicked Strong will have run the best race of the year in losing the Travers.   HE has so much in ground loss and misuse of energy in the first turn that his race was significantly better thanV.E Day.  While V. E. Day ran great, it’s not unusual in horse racing for the best horse to finish 2nd  — and to my eye, that is exactly what happened.

That being said, Wicked Strong has not been able to pack two monster trips back to back, The Jim Dandy was a nice tune up but the big effort came in The Travers.  So the big question with him is – can he recover and achieve top form for the Breeders Cup?  Hopefully, we shall find out in what I expect will be an amazing race…