By Ray Wallin The Kentucky Derby is full of traditions. There’s the Twin Spires, the hats, the Mint Juleps, and the garland of roses, to name a few. Twenty 3-year-olds and their connections hope to ...
By Ray Wallin One of my readers, Helpless Harry, reached out to me with a question. He asks, “how do you keep yourself from losing really big on a bad day when you struggle with being disciplined?�...
By Ray Wallin As handicappers there is no worse feeling than walking into the track prepared with some great betting opportunities only to second guess yourself when you get to the betting windows. Yo...
By Ray Wallin When you ask someone what the Holy Trinity is you are bound to get more than one answer. If you are religious you may likely answer that it is the Father, t e Son, and the Holy Ghost. If...
By Ray Wallin A few years ago, Bloomberg Businessweek writer Ira Boudway wrote the business piece that coach Gregg Popovich would never write. He called it “The Five Pillars of Gregg Popovich.” As...
By Ray Wallin As handicappers, we strive to be wrong less often than we are right. Yet in defeat we can find a positive. Thinking back to the days of my misspent youth on the apron of the Monmouth Par...
By Ray Wallin Winning horseplayers execute with both intention and action. Losing horseplayers don’t. Think back to your days of sitting in Mr. Burke’s math class. I am sure you remember the kid t...
By Ray Wallin There have been books written about it. There have been endless debates on handicapping and horse racing forums about it. I’ve even seen guys come to blows in the old Bally’s Wild We...
By Ray Wallin The thoroughbred racing community lost one of its greatest and most distinctive voices with the recent passing of race-caller Marshall Cassidy at the age of 75. Cassidy wore many hats du...
By Ray Wallin I have highlighted some outrageous horseplayer behavior in the first four parts of this series: When Good Horseplayers Go Bad Part 1 When Good Horseplayers Go Bad Part 2 When Good Horsep...
