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08/05/2009 - Saratoga Springs, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Commentator, a veteran of 23 career races, goes after his third Whitney Handicap victory Saturday afternoon at Saratoga Race Course. The eight-year-old gelding won the 1 1/8 mile race both last year and in 2005.
Six older thoroughbreds will take on the task of denying Commentator a third Whitney crown. The gelding and Asiatic Boy are co-highweights at 121 pounds, and Stephen Foster winner Macho Again will carry 119 pounds.
The $750,000 Whitney is a "Win and You're In" race, giving the winner guaranteed entry into the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita Park this fall.
Owned by Tracy Farmer, Commentator will start from the outside post in the seven horse field, with John Velazquez returning to ride. The eight-year-old is coming off a win at Belmont Park in June in the Kashatreya Stakes.
"He's already proved himself," said Farmer on Monday. "He has nothing to prove I should say. And it's exciting that he has the opportunity. There are going to be great horses running against him and he is a few years old. So I'm looking forward to it.
"I've never had a horse like this before, and I've owned several horses of the championship type. But Commentator is just something else. He loves Saratoga. It's like he's home when he's here. And he loves the Saratoga race track. He has won some phenomenal races and he can go down in history. Saturday it will be a history-making race if he succeeds."
Trained by Hall of Famer Nick Zito, Commentator has won five of his last seven starts, including last year's Massachusetts Handicap, which he won by 14- lengths. Overall, the gelding has won 14 starts and is on the verge of surpassing $2 million in lifetime earnings.
Commentator would become only the third horse to win the Whitney three times, joining the legendary Kelso and Discovery.
Asiatic Boy will be ridden by Alan Garcia from post two for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. The six-year-old is owned by Shaikh Mohammid bin Khalifa Al Maktoum.
Bred in Argentina, Asiatic Boy was second in each of his last two starts, the Suburban and Stephen Foster Handicaps. In his career, the six-year-old has won seven of 17 starts for more than $3.2 million.
Stephen Foster winner Macho Again has drawn post four, with regular jockey Robby Albarado riding. The gray colt is owned by West Point Thoroughbreds and trained by Dallas Stewart.
The four-year-old went past the $1 million mark in earnings earlier this year by winning the New Orleans Handicap. He threw in a clunker with a sixth-place finish in the Alysheba at Churchill Downs prior to the Foster Handicap.
Macho Again has earned nearly $1.5 million with six wins in 18 career starts.
The full field for the Whitney in post position order: Smooth Air, Jose Lezcano; Asiatic Boy, Alan Garcia; Bullsbay, Jeremy Rose; Macho Again, Robby Albarado; Tizway, Rajiv Maragh; Dry Martini, Edgar Prado and Commentator, John Velazquez.
The Whitney Handicap has a scheduled post-time of 5:47 P.M. (et).
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Is there such a thing as a trap game in the NFL?
I once asked that question to Pete Korner, who at the time was office manager and a senior linesmaker for Las Vegas Sports Consultants.
Korner almost ripped my head off. There is no such thing as a trap game, he loudly berated me. It’s a myth. The numbers are made using power ratings, he said.
There are trap games, though. They just might not be what you think. The perception is of a good team, say Philadelphia, laying a small number against New Orleans.
Using the highly-respected power ranking from The Gold Sheet, you’d find the Eagles with a power rating of 4 and the Saints at 8. When you factor the game being played in New Orleans, you could see why the line opened so short at less than a field goal.
For some, this makes it enticing to take the Eagles. That’s not a real trap game, though.
A real trap game, says professional gambler Dave Malinsky, is thinking you’re getting value betting a bad team, which brings us to the Oakland Raiders-Denver Broncos matchup.
The Raiders are +15 in this long-standing division rivalry. Denver is on a short week having dispatched Baltimore Monday. However, the Raiders haven’t covered the spread their last 10 games.
Many bettors don’t trust the Raiders to give a full effort. Few think much of Art Shell and his Oakland’s coaching staff.
So oddsmakers have to do something to make Oakland attractive if they hope to get equal action.
Now Malinsky is a value shopper. But he won’t touch the Raiders even getting more than two touchdowns.
“I try to eliminate the undisciplined, unfocused teams because they’re the ones most likely to suffer the bad beats,” he said.
Near the top of Malinsky’s list of stay-away teams is the Miami Dolphins, who have yet to cover a spread this season.
“Whatever you think of Nick Saban, you have to look at the penalties and turnovers,” Malinsky said.
It’s easy to point out the Dolphins failed to get the money this past week against New England because Olindo Mare missed a field goal and had another field goal blocked. But even though the Dolphins outgained the Patriots, 283-213, they committed eight penalties.
Bad teams not only cost themselves victories, but pointspread covers as well. The Arizona Cardinals and Green Bay Packers are two more examples.
The Cardinals couldn’t have been in a better position this past Sunday, up 14-0 at home against a mediocre Kansas City Chiefs squad. But they couldn’t hold it. The Packers got a push against St. Louis, but also could have won losing by three when Brett Favre fumbled at the St. Louis 11-yard line with 44 seconds left.
“The Packers were in a position to beat Philadelphia, too,” Malinsky said. “But they couldn’t even cover double digits.
“These teams just make mistakes and it costs you … they always will look good from a value standpoint. They really will. But that’s the trap.”
Houston and Tennessee rank among the six-worst teams. Malinsky wouldn’t be afraid to take either of these teams, however, if the price were high enough.
The Texans are bad, Malinsky said, but they have some discipline. The Titans showed they could not only come up with an outstanding game plan, but execute it as well, losing by one to the Colts on the road as an 18 ?-point underdog this past Sunday.
“Jeff Fisher is a worker,” Malinsky said of the Titans coach. “I’m not sure how hard Art Shell wants to work when he gets out of bed.”
Fisher, though, could be out as Tennessee coach after this season. Is he still worth backing in the right spot, with the right price, as a lame duck coach?
“It’s in his nature to keep working hard and not worry about any possible lame duck status,” Malinsky said. “He’s coaching for his resume.”
Note: Monday night game will be picked Monday. Lines used are from football betting lines.
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