Gana en las Carreras Americanas

Gana en las Carreras Americanas

martes, 31 de diciembre de 2013

Recomendaciones - Martes 31/12/2013

Jugadas del día realizadas en www.juegaenlinea.com:




AQUEDUCT
Marcas
1)6-7-4  2)2-1-5  3)1-1A-2B  4)2-1-5  5)11-7-10  6)1-3-7  7)3-7-6  8)7-1A-1  9)9-1-2
Base Jugadas
4carr 2 Sun And Moon
8carr 7 Fortufy

FAIR GROUNDS
Marcas
1)3-6-1  2)6-4-3  3)6-4-5  4)6-1-3  5)1-3-5  6)5-4-10  7)6-4-3  8)5-1-4  9)7-1-8  10)8-9-1
Base Jugadas
7carr 6 Yankee Hunter


The Year of the Horse

Alydar - Affirmed 615 X 400
Photo: Bob Coglianese

It was Christmas Eve when I got the calendar. We were in Fair Haven Vermont, visiting our son who lives in that area at the present time. Realizing the hour was late, all we could find was a Chinese place that was open for holiday business. We all got the usual, and when I paid for our Christmas Eve feast the clerk at the register gave me a box. It turned out to be a garish and tacky painted bamboo calendar with horse’s adorning it and the name of the restaurant at the bottom. It’s 2014 and my Chinese New Year calendar proclaimed it to be the year of the horse. 

I don’t know why that gesture in that strange Chinese walk-in joint got to me so much. They had it so cold inside the place that no one, not even hearty Vermonters would ‘eat in’ as they say. But their gesture took hold of me and it warmed a frigid soul.

Not doing the driving home, I found myself interested and checked my gizmo phone.  I found out that there were two Triple Crowns won during previous years of the horse. 1930 and 1978 were the years, with Gallant Fox and Affirmed winning the crown. Of the 12 symbols that represent the Chinese Zodiac, the year of the horse is the only one with multiple winners of that coveted prize. (I also found out that I was born in the year of the boar, and that’s not bore. Don’t be a wise guy.)

The year of the horse has made an impact in the course of horse racing history, or one could make an argument to back up such a statement. 1930 was also the year that Gallant Fox was defeated by the 100-1 shot, Jim Dandy in the Travers at Saratoga. A Triple Crown winner defeated in the mud by three lengths by a long shot, that doesn’t happen every year.

1942 gave us Shut Out, winning what New Yorkers might call their Triple Crown. Shut Out won the ’42 Derby, Belmont, and Travers, losing the Preakness by two lengths. Shut Out also won the Bluegrass and the Yankee Stakes that year. In 1954, Determine was the first gray horse to win the Kentucky Derby. ‘66 gave us one of the best Maryland bred horses, Kauai King, who won the Derby and the Preakness that year. And then there was 1978.

1978 was one of the best years in the history of American horse racing. The battles between Alydar and Affirmed are legendary. It was the greatest rivalry in horse racing and possibly in sports. You can’t say one horse’s name without mentioning the other, but is that because of the year of the horse? I can’t say.

1990 was next, and the horse Unbridled was the talk of that year by winning the Kentucky Derby and the Breeders' Cup Classic. In 2002, War Emblem won the Derby and Preakness, giving Bob Baffert his third Kentucky Derby win.

The year of the horse has brought us some average years, as far as the sport is concerned, and it has brought us magical years where legends were born. It sure will be interesting to see what 2014 will bring. Could a Triple Crown be in the calendar? I don’t know, but on the long Christmas Eve drive home, the first one where the family had to travel to be together, I thought of the enchantment that a year of the horse could bring, and hope that a calendar that warmed me in December can thrill me in May.

domingo, 29 de diciembre de 2013

Recomendaciones - Domingo 29/12/2013

Jugadas del día realizadas en www.juegaenlinea.com:




LOS ALAMITOS
Selecciones
1)1-5-6  2)1-3-4  3)1-6  4)2-4-5-7  5)2-4-5  6)4-5  7)5  8)1-3-4
Base Jugadas
7carr 5 Fal For This Guy