As of posting time , I am holding my breath in the hopes that Mario Gutierrez is okay.  The fall was one of those that seemed so sudden that the jock didn’t have a chance to prepare for it.  Just one minute he’s up and the next he’s being thrown to the ground without a moment to react at 35 MPH…

 Here’s the big news, starting on Wednesday of next week, I will be unveiling a new video product.  It’s a daily and will be called “My Exit Play”.   It will cost only $2.50 per track per day and will come with the KHSS sheet bundled into it for the first month…  The KHSS is only $2.00 per day on it’s own right now, so one or the other is being provided nearly for FREE.   I think you should love these two together… Here is the point, if you have followed anything I have ever said about “playing horses, it’s most important to know your last play before your know your first play…  That way, you can always evaluate your first play to see if it’s worth playing, because you can “measure it” against your last play.   By doing my best (and first) work in handicapping for my last play…  My ideas on the race are established when I am freshest and least emotional…while the competition is more worn out and in the “emotional throws” of  winning and losing…

So look for my new video offering (starting Wednesday), everyday … on the right side — > just click on Video Exit Play –>

Continuing the discussion of the “Early Speed” notation, they are to be used in understanding the potential positioning at the 4 furlong pole.   Not out of the gate!!!   Very often a horse that has been out of form or off a layoff will come back to the races and take off out of the gate.  Maybe having never shown early lick before, but they can be in the race to get some of there own conditioning and end up playing spoiler to another who is running early to get winning position.   This happens all the time, it’s one of the reasons, I evaluate early speed after I make my best guess on the overall conditioning of the horse.  Once I feel like I’m looking at a horse who can win on his own merit, then I try to understand how the race shape is going to effect him.  So when I look at the Early Speed notations of “1” or “2”, I see them as assets that should help my horses handle whatever is thrown at him.    It always appeals to me, when I bet a horse with a “1” who rates kindly and then kicks butt in the stretch…going to the front only matters at the finish line…