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    <title>Saratoga Diary</title>
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    <description>Saratoga Diary by John Pricci, the Executive Editor of Horseraceinsider.com</description>
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    <dc:creator>John Pricci</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights>Copyright 2012</dc:rights>
    <dc:date>2012-09-05T12:01:00-05:00</dc:date>
   
   
   
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                                     <title>Vox Populi and Streams From the Subconcious</title>
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                        <![CDATA[September 4, 2012—Perhaps you were expecting consciousness, after 46&#45;½ days of racing? I know, only 20 more races were run at Saratoga this year than in 2011. Of course, last year there were 39 days of racing, one less than 2012. But when compared to a typical downstate race&#45;week, five days per week with 10 on weekends—Saturdays, anyway—it was as if 7&#45;1/2 weeks were condensed into 6&#45;1/2. Immediately following were the comments/questions from three of the HRI faithful that were posted &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Saratoga-Diary'>Vox Populi and Streams From the Subconcious</a>]]>


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                                     <title>The New &#8220;King of Saratoga&#8221;</title>
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                        <![CDATA[September 2, 2012—We’re not be facetious or mean spirited, although inevitably some will take it that way, that the final day of Saratoga 144 comes as a relief. It’s what happens when about 47 days of racing are condensed into “only” 40. But it is what is and what it did was, despite the questionable quality of the fare on many days, produced damn good finishes race after race on many days. And whatever the supposed “quality,” or lack thereof, it &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Saratoga-Diary'>The New &#8220;King of Saratoga&#8221;</a>]]>


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<dc:date>2012-09-03T05:46:00-05:00</dc:date>

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                                     <title>To Honor And Serve Redeems Himself in Woodward</title>
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                        <![CDATA[September 1, 2012—Very seldom does a horse race live up to the hype, and very seldom do two horses who met as babies meet again for much of the marbles in a Grade 1 at Saratoga. Actually, this is the fourth time that To Honor And Serve and Mucho Macho Man have met. Advantage To Honor And Serve, by a count of 3 to 1. To Honor And Serve was always the more precocious; Mucho Macho Man was from Day 1 &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Saratoga-Diary'>To Honor And Serve Redeems Himself in Woodward</a>]]>


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<dc:date>2012-09-02T07:23:00-05:00</dc:date>

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                                     <title>Handicapping Spa Features 2.0: The Art of the Mulligan</title>
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                        <![CDATA[August 31, 2012&#45;Today’s featured two Grade 1 stakes offers an excellent handicapping study is to the art of applying the mulligan. Horseman say throw the race out, or strike a line through it, but whatever it’s called, it needs to be part of the betting arsenal, if for no other reason than to maintain mental health. The subject is apropos because I’ve been a fan of Mucho Macho Man since the day he finished second behind To Honor And Serve in &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Saratoga-Diary'>Handicapping Spa Features 2.0: The Art of the Mulligan</a>]]>


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<dc:date>2012-09-01T09:03:01-05:00</dc:date>

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                                     <title>NYRA&#8217;s Auto Pilot, Sophomoric State Rule, Fails Again</title>
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                        <![CDATA[August 30, 2012—How much of a hit did the state’s coffers take today because, parimutuelly speaking, someone was asleep at the switch? Check that, this is the new NYRA, where the game’s on automatic pilot: No one was asleep at the switch prior to today’s featured Grade 2 With Anticipation Stakes; there was no one AT the switch, or didn’t know where the switch was. Very likely, the switch&#45;thrower was halfway down the Thruway on their way back to Belmont Park. &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Saratoga-Diary'>NYRA&#8217;s Auto Pilot, Sophomoric State Rule, Fails Again</a>]]>


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<dc:date>2012-08-31T06:49:00-05:00</dc:date>

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                                     <title>Saratoga 2012: Dark Days for The Spinner</title>
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                        <![CDATA[Saratoga Springs, NY, August 29, 2012&#45;&#45;Time to face facts. This meeting has had its ups and downs; good and sometimes great racing; bettable cards but yet many unbettable races, and racing days that never seemed to end. Too much of a good thing? You bet. In fact, according to the calculations of my former Newsday colleague, Paul Moran, there will be an extra week of racing this year after you add up all those 10, 11, and 12 race&#45;cards. The association &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Saratoga-Diary'>Saratoga 2012: Dark Days for The Spinner</a>]]>


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<dc:date>2012-08-30T09:35:00-05:00</dc:date>

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                                     <title>Travers Day 2012: History Made at the Old Spa</title>
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                        <![CDATA[August, 25, 2012—August, 25, 2012—Where’s Solomon when you really need him—you know, the cut the canoe in half? Because what could be better that a Travers winner than TWO Travers winners? So, never before in Travers history had there been two horses reach the wire, sort of. In 1874, Attila and Acrobat finished so close the race was declared a dead heat. A runoff between the two was ordered and Attila won the runoff. But today’s result was the first “official &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Saratoga-Diary'>Travers Day 2012: History Made at the Old Spa</a>]]>


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<dc:date>2012-08-26T04:34:00-05:00</dc:date>

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                                     <title>And the Travers 143 Winner Is&#8230;</title>
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                        <![CDATA[August 24, 2012—Let’s face it: The chances that the winner of today’s Travers will go on to win the Jockey Club Gold Cup and Breeders’ Cup Classic are—realistically, I don’t know—500&#45;1? But this is horse racing and anything can happen. And if that’s not a good enough reason to be interested in what happens in Saratoga’s pre&#45;eminent horse racing event, it is these: It’s still the Travers, and it’s a damn good betting race. Initially, I thought that since Alpha was &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Saratoga-Diary'>And the Travers 143 Winner Is&#8230;</a>]]>


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<dc:date>2012-08-25T01:52:00-05:00</dc:date>

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                                     <title>A Jim Dandy of a Travers?</title>
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                        <![CDATA[August, 22, 2012—Will the name of the Travers 143 early line favorite prove prophetic, is he indeed, in this game of three&#45;year&#45;old attrition, truly the Alpha male? Post positions were drawn this morning and given the long run to the first of two turns, even poor positions are somewhat mitigated. The favorite drew right in the middle of the 11&#45;horse field. “I’m very happy with the draw,” said Kiaran McLaughlin, trying to join Nafzger in 2007 by saddling the Alabama and &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Saratoga-Diary'>A Jim Dandy of a Travers?</a>]]>


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<dc:date>2012-08-23T04:02:00-05:00</dc:date>

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                                     <title>Stars Emerge In Spa Grade 1s</title>
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                        <![CDATA[August 18, 2012—Today was one of those Chamber of Commerce days here. Not only was the sun shining but it was a Spa summer&#45;brisk morning followed by a dry afternoon—the reason you take Exit 14 off the Northway to get here in the first place. But then culture shock as you realized today’s Grade 1 on the grass was around THREE turns. Hell, that’s almost 75% of the Late Pick 4 on most days. But if you want a Grade 1 &#8230;<br/><br/><a href='http://www.horseraceinsider.com/Saratoga-Diary'>Stars Emerge In Spa Grade 1s</a>]]>


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<dc:date>2012-08-19T07:34:00-05:00</dc:date>

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