Players' Newsletter - Mid-Week Madness
August 30th, 2023
It’s hard to get better mid-week racing than what is in store tomorrow.
Over at Colonial, Michael Domabyl and myself previewed the action with a look at the Late Pick 5. 12% Takeout!
Kentucky Downs opening day is the spotlight and we’ve got a tripleheader of content coming your way to get prepared. Tomorrow’s HorsePlayers’ Happy Hour covers races 3 through 10 on the card, in addition to our usual conversation on the Breeders’ Cup WAYI action. I also sat down with Jack Jenkins to talk the card.
ITM Plus subscribers will receive the regular show notes for both of our preview shows, plus a daily notebook for the 7 days of racing from Eric DeCoster. In case you missed it yesterday, our friends at ThoroPace provided a great statistical preview for the KYD meet for all newsletter viewers. You can find that here.
Finally, earlier in the week I sat down with Brian Skirka to discuss the King of the Turf contest, which is a series of three contests focusing on races from Kentucky Downs. All of the rules can be found here.
PTF and special guests are back with a special all-Kentucky Downs version of Horseplayers' Happy Hour, where we look back at last week's Win-and-You're-In action and look ahead to what's coming this weekend.
HorsePlayers' Happy Hour is also an interconnected series of contests where you only need to play one week to participate in the prize pool -- which consists of $20,000 worth of Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge seats, added to the pool at no cost to players. It costs just $20 to play and the proceeds benefit retired racehorses.
***Sign up at horseplayers.com -- just navigate to the Horseplayers Happy Hour page.
Kentucky Downs Show for Opening Day (Thursday)
PTF and Jack Jenkins are here with thoughts, tips, and analysis on Kentucky Downs’ Opening Day card.
Thursday Show for Colonial Downs
It’s a big week of racing at Colonial Downs and PTF and ITM’s Michael Domabyl kick it off with analysis of the Thursday Late Pick Five, a bet with just 12% takeout.
Looking for exclusive, daily analysis from Saratoga and Del Mar this summer? Look no further than Nick Tammaro’s Saratoga Notebook and “Frankly Speaking” from Frank Scatoni at Del Mar. Only on ITM Plus!
PTF and JK kick things off with a recap of the six Grade 1 stakes at Saratoga this weekend.
Then Brian Skirka is here to give us all the details on the upcoming King of the Turf contest at Kentucky Downs, an interconnected series of three contests starting this Thursday.
Another Crappy Day in Paradise
PTF is back with a special edition of the show where he tries to process the events of last weekend talking to two of the most respected journalists on the grounds at Saratoga, David Grening of Daily Racing Form and Sean Clancy of The Saratoga Special and Thisishorseracing.com.
We’ll be back tomorrow with a more traditional recap show of Travers weekend.
