Women in Racing: The Bigfoot Edition

On Twitter today it was discovered that, in some cases, it’s hard to believe that up to 20% of ADW account holders are women. @pullthepocket You had me at 20% of online ADW clients are female. That’s shocking. Where does one find such a statistic? April 2, 2013 In case it’s not apparent why a woman may choose to wager…

Behold Women in Racing

Lest you think all my recent Twitter crabbing has been happening in a vacuum, I bring you several examples from just this week where women are specifically and only being portrayed as decoration in racing: Showgirls at Turfway Park for the Spiral: Here’s a better shot. Geisha girls in the winner’s circle at Santa Anita Park: And America’s Best Racing…

And if it does work…

After getting a chance to play with a Surface tablet at work today Another day at the office http://t.co/3cwLi4WMNa — dana byerly (@superterrific) March 21, 2013 I thought a little more about something else I tweeted today. Will the land of bus tours and beauty queens ever do such a thing? Doubt it. http://t.co/oJjhN3pM7V — dana byerly (@superterrific) March 21,…

Not that this would be an issue for me

All day it’s been impossible to see the win price because the result board is showing part of the American Flag where the numbers should be — Jerry Bossert (@JBossertNYDN) March 20, 2013

Spot the Unique

“There’s something about a headpiece that really makes a girl feel unique” One such girl who is likely to be feeling unique, in that “I’m smarter than you” way, is pictured above. It’s none other than HANA’s very own Theresia Muller, in her special headpiece, a baseball cap. Not pictured: her gigantic DIY, dare I say unique, handicapping binder. See…

How Good Is Invasor?

I’m a big fan of race replays on YouTube. If you follow me on Twitter you may have seen me grumble about this from time to time (and if you haven’t, you will at some point along with a host of other petty complaints). One such grumble was that Invasor’s spectacular 2007 Donn Handicap was no longer on YouTube. In…

Whatever Motivates You

A review of HRF stats uncovered the following chuckle-worthy search term… The Beyer-hater landed here, spending almost 13 minutes, went to the homepage for a moment before moving on to one my favorite posts, a discussion on Handicapping Process, for 16 minutes. After that on to Introduction to Class for 3 minutes and 38 seconds. As you can see this…

Fun Indeed

Perusing the current list of winners to date in the new Derby point system indicates that I may have to bring the somewhat-regular GBG feature, “Fun with Names” to the new digs. While not in the standard wager format, it was pretty easy to toss these little tidbits together… Itsmyluckyday as I Will Take Charge to become a Power Broker….

And by weirdness they mean thinking

The real differentiator is ease-of-use. By bringing a more “gaming” feel to the product, DerbyJackpot reduces the weirdness associated with racing. And by “weirdness” they mean “thinking”.

Jackpot?

When word of Luckity and Derby Jackpot first surfaced, I must admit that I vomited in my mouth a little. Seeing quotes about the approach of divorcing what we know and love as handicapping from wagering on a grand scale as being “a panacea” or “a savior” to racing initially annoyed the hell out of me. As someone who has…