DEL MAR race-within-a-race

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Standings 7/29

Rank User Qualified Races Net Winnings
1 Partsnut177 * 8 $450.00
2 turffan * 2 $270.00
3 westchcpr * 6 $120.00
4 10Furlongs * 5 $45.00
5 Bitowisdom * 8 $13.00
6 Badactor * 8 $-80.00
7 eyeontheroad * 8 $-110.00
7 funkymonkey * 8 $-110.00
9 phlierfreak * 8 $-140.00
10 cruzan2002 * 7 $-148.00
11 sbwest * 7 $-230.00
12 italianstallion * 7 $-330.00
13 5wide * 7 $-450.00
13 madameblum * 6 $-450.00
15 tims70ar * 7 $-480.00
16 merasmag * 8 $-590.00
17 ndsc32 * 6 $-600.00
18 turbine * 8 $-620.00
19 Jacckk8 * 7 $-640.00
20 Propro * 8 $-800.00

[Badactor]

Did i ever tell you... I heart HIB. 

[Badactor]

www.dmtc.com/contest/58/standings

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Standings as of 4 Aug 24

Rank User Qualified Races Net Winnings
1 Badactor * 12 $1,350.00
2 turffan * 2 $270.00
3 Partsnut177 * 12 $50.00
4 10Furlongs * 5 $45.00
5 funkymonkey * 11 $-80.00
6 westchcpr * 9 $-180.00
7 sbwest * 8 $-330.00
8 cruzan2002 * 11 $-362.00
9 Bitowisdom * 12 $-387.00
10 eyeontheroad * 11 $-410.00
11 phlierfreak * 12 $-540.00
12 turbine * 12 $-594.00
13 Jacckk8 * 7 $-640.00
14 5wide * 11 $-702.00
15 italianstallion * 11 $-730.00
16 merasmag * 11 $-750.00
16 madameblum * 9 $-750.00
18 ndsc32 * 8 $-800.00
19 tims70ar * 11 $-880.00
20 Propro * 12 $-1,200.00

[Badactor]

Thursday 8/8 Badactor's
Play from the Clubhouse:
$100.00 Win 5 Sharp Ride

[UpInClass]

[eye123]

Dell, nice score (considering how chalky it's been).....keep it up. (Looking for that "one" good price play)

[Badactor]

Thank you, sir... maybe today is the day for a big priced winner.
Of course, we won't know until they get around to posting a race.

On a day when Saratoga is off the menu, players look to the west
for horse racing action and Del Mar drops the ball - particularly for
our east coast brothers & sisters... where it's already past 1:00pm
and still no contest race to be played.

The handle will and should be up today at Del Mar
because of the weather closure at Saratoga race track.
Today's not the day to NOT have product available to play.

I have fought this battle for years...
Give handicappers a race to study and they'll look at the entire card.
If they look at the card, handicappers will likely find something to bet.
That is the purpose of the free contests... get them in & let them play!

[Badactor]

We have a contest race available to play... good luck!

I'm on #9 Joe Don Looney
6 G Boisterous - Carrie Rose by Old Topper

Old Topper (KY) 25 starts 7w 6p 4s earnings $655,861
TB, CH, H, foaled March 7, 1995
(Gilded Time - Shy Trick, by Phone Trick)

I was at Del Mar in 2000 to see Eddie D ride & win Old Topper's last race.
www.equibase.com/premium/eqbPDFChartPlus.cfm?RACE=7&BorP=P&TID=DMR&CTRY=USA&DT=08/28/2000&DAY=D&STYLE=EQB

[Badactor]

Badactor's Saturday Selection:

Excerpt from “On The Road” by Jack Kerouac ~~Big Pop~~

In the afternoon we went to Graetna, just Bull and me. We drove in his old Chevy.
Dean’s Hudson was low and sleek; Bull’s Chevy was high and rattly. It was just like 1910.
The bookie joint was located near the waterfront in a big chromium-leather bar that opened up
in the back to a tremendous hall where entries and numbers were posted on the wall.
Louisiana characters lounged around with Racing Forms. Bull and I had a beer, and casually
Bull went over to the slot machine and threw a half-dollar piece in. The counters clicked
‘Jackpot’ – ‘Jackpot’ – ‘Jackpot’ – and the last ‘Jackpot’ hung for just a moment and
slipped back to ‘Cherry.’ He had lost a hundred dollars or more just by a hair. ‘Damn!’ yelled Bull.
‘They got these things adjusted. You could see it right then. I had the jackpot and the mechanism
clicked it back. Well, what you gonna do.’ We examined the Racing Form. I hadn’t played the horses
in years and was bemused with all the new names. There was one horse called Big Pop that sent me
in a temporary trance thinking of my father, who used to play the horses with me. I was just about to
mention it to Old Bull when he said, ‘Well I think I’ll try this Ebony Corsair here.’

Then I finally said it. ‘Big Pop reminds me of my father.’

He mused for just a second, his clear blue eyes fixed on mine hypnotically so that I couldn’t tell
what he was thinking or where he was. Then he went over and bet on Ebony Corsair. Big Pop won
and paid fifty to one.

‘Damn!’ said Bull. ‘I should have known better. I’ve had experience with this before.
Oh, when will we ever learn?’

‘What do you mean?’

‘Big Pop is what I mean. You had a vision, boy, a vision. Only damn fools pay no attention to visions.
How do you know your father, who was an old horseplayer, just didn’t momentarily communicate to you
that Big Pop was going to win the race? The name brought the feeling up in you, he took advantage
of the name to communicate. That’s what I was thinking about when you mentioned it. My cousin in Missouri
once bet on a horse that had a name that reminded him of his mother, and it won and paid a big price.
The same thing happened this afternoon.’ He shook his head. ‘Ah, let’s go. This is the last time I’ll ever
play the horses with you around; all these visions drive me to distraction.’ In the car as we drove back to his
old house he said, ‘Mankind will someday realize that we are in contact with the dead and with the other world,
whatever it is; right now we could predict, if we only exerted enough mental will, what is going to happen within
the next hundred years and be able to take steps to avoid all kinds of catastrophes. When a man dies he undergoes
a mutation in his brain that we know nothing about now but which will be very clear someday if scientists get on the ball.
The bastards right now are only interested in seeing if they can blow up the world.’

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Results after 8/11

Rank User Qualified Races Net Winnings
1 Badactor * 16 $950.00
2 turffan * 4 $70.00
3 10Furlongs * 5 $45.00
4 Partsnut177 * 16 $-50.00
5 westchcpr * 10 $-280.00
6 funkymonkey * 14 $-380.00
7 Bitowisdom * 15 $-387.00
8 phlierfreak * 16 $-455.00
9 cruzan2002 * 15 $-540.00
10 sbwest * 11 $-630.00
11 eyeontheroad * 14 $-710.00
12 Jacckk8 * 8 $-740.00
13 italianstallion * 14 $-765.00
14 madameblum * 10 $-850.00
15 turbine * 16 $-975.00
16 ndsc32 * 10 $-1,000.00
17 5wide * 15 $-1,102.00
18 merasmag * 15 $-1,150.00
19 tims70ar * 15 $-1,280.00
20 Propro * 16 $-1,600.00

[Badactor]

Badactor: 43rd out of 2,821
My winnings: $1,090.00

Thu, Aug. 22nd - Race 6 
Past Performances


Fri, Aug. 23rd - Race 8
Past Performances

[Badactor]

Today's bad play... good luck!
$100.00 Win #2 Mi Hermano Ramon

[Badactor]

Making a run at the top spot!
My position: 8th out of 2,836
My winnings: $1,760.00


I forgot until tonight that I went crazy and bet a dollar on today's race.
Just checked the results at Xpressbet and discovered the good news... 

Del Mar 8 $0.10 SU 2 / 3 / 6, 10 / 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 $1.00 $56.39

2 JUST IS Hector Berrios — $17.80 $6.20 $4.20

3 CLASS CLOWN Joseph Talamo — $2.80 $2.60

6 DR. RAY D. Abel Cedillo — — — — — —   $4.60

8 SOLID TUNE Reylu Gutierrez 

[Badactor]

Del Mar Dell Saturday Special:

You know what would be really fantastic... 
How'bout a HIB Double on races 9 & 10 ??

www.dmtc.com/contest/58

[Badactor]

Blankety blank blank...
sure can drop fast in this game.

My position: 16th out of 2,839
My winnings: $1,560.00

Here's my Sunday bad play: 
$100.00 Win 6 Cathal [IRE]

[Badactor]

Playing with their money... and getting lucky like tc! 

Del Mar 10 $0.10 SU 6 / 5 / 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 / 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 $4.20 $68.36

6  Cathal (IRE) Hector Berrios $13.40 $5.40 $4.80

5  Uncle Happy — — —— —— —— — $4.80 $3.80

8  Promissio —— — — — — — — — — — — $4.80

11 Mystic Spirit 

My position: 7th out of 2,842
My winnings: $2,130.00

Monday's bad play will be... $100.00 Win 10 Highlands
(Yount's Nuanced Audible 25/25/50) We'll see how it works... good luck!

Edit : result... odds closed @ 60-1 and she ran like it. We'll try again next week.

My position: 8th out of 2,846
My winnings: $2,030.00

[madameblum]

Awesome job Dell!!!

Keep it going.

[5wide]

Rank User Qualified Races Net Winnings
1 Badactor 29 $2,130.00
2 Bitowisdom 25 $247.00
3 turffan * 4 $70.00
4 10Furlongs * 5 $45.00
5 cruzan2002 28 $-83.00
6 Partsnut177 28 $-315.00
7 westchcpr * 16 $-550.00
8 eyeontheroad * 14 $-710.00
9 funkymonkey 26 $-820.00
10 Jacckk8 * 9 $-840.00
11 ndsc32 20 $-860.00
12 italianstallion 26 $-1,057.50
13 madameblum * 17 $-1,210.00
14 phlierfreak 29 $-1,332.00
15 sbwest 22 $-1,350.00
16 tims70ar 24 $-1,760.00
17 turbine 27 $-1,827.00
18 5wide 25 $-1,966.00
19 merasmag 23 $-2,000.00
20 Propro 27 $-2,130.00

[Badactor]

THU SEPT 5, FRI SEPT 6, SAT SEPT 7, SUN SEPT 8.
Only 4 racing days left to play in the Del Mar contest!

I'm currently in 8th place, trailing the leader by $1200. 
www.dmtc.com/contest/58/standings  

[Badactor]

It's Bombs Away @ Del Mar Thursday!


EDIT : results : my bomb was a dud.

Friday's bad play... $100 Win.

[bitowisdom]

Last dance today. WELL DONE BADACTOR. I gave it a shot the last couple weeks, but you were just to strong. Hope you catch a dandy today. Missed the boat yesterday when Ron Ellis (not the best of meets for him), and Victor Espinoza light up the board with a $57 piece. Been a get nipped Summer. I have had seconditis for the last 2 months. LOL Everything I touch, I get nipped at the wire. LOL. Too Funny. Example...Contest I have cashed in 3 times over the last four entries, I miss the money by $2.20 in earnings. I know everyone who reads this knows the feeling. Just have to laugh it off. OKAY. Now I will shut up for a few months. LMAO

[5wide]

Final top 20

Rank User Qualified Races Net Winnings
1 Badactor 35 $1,670.00
2 Bitowisdom 31 $839.00
3 turffan * 4 $70.00
4 10Furlongs * 5 $45.00
5 westchcpr * 18 $-340.00
6 cruzan2002 34 $-388.00
7 eyeontheroad * 14 $-710.00
8 Jacckk8 * 9 $-840.00
9 Partsnut177 34 $-915.00
10 ndsc32 23 $-1,160.00
11 merasmag 26 $-1,180.00
12 madameblum * 17 $-1,210.00
13 phlierfreak 35 $-1,234.00
14 funkymonkey 31 $-1,320.00
15 italianstallion 31 $-1,327.50
16 sbwest 23 $-1,450.00
17 tims70ar 29 $-2,260.00
18 turbine 33 $-2,261.00
19 5wide 29 $-2,366.00
20 Propro 33 $-2,730.00

[phlierfreak]

thanks for compiling the stats.

[Badactor]

I want to thank folks for participating in our race-within-a-race!
It's always tough when you're up against the great badactor (CHOTU).
I ended up placing 18th out of 2,853 with a bankroll of $1,670.00.
My top 30 finish won me this delightful prize, which I'll put up for a BC contest.