15 Aug
Quick! How wide is your favorite track? Don’t know? Well, if it’s Twin River (formerly Lincoln in Rhode Island) it’s only 17 feet wide, the narrowest track in the US. So, I hear you say, what difference does it make how wide the track is? The dogs don’t race across the track; they race around [...]
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23 Jul
Not everyone who goes to the dog track is a handicapper. I’ve mentioned before that, in my opinion, most people who bet on the dogs are NOT handicappers. They’re bettors, but there’s a big difference between being a handicapper and betting on the dogs on hunches, with numbers or names or because someone gave you [...]
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01 Jun
This week at the track, I was standing in line ready to place a bet. The guy in front of me, who’d been reading his program while we stood there waiting, plunked his program down on the counter, ran his fingers over the dogs’ lines and said to the clerk,
“So who do you like to [...]
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