I tip the hat to HP for the contest results and anybody else who did well.

In real life, with ability to weigh post time odds and scratches, today was a great day for the Sheets. I don't know how TG players did but -- and I'll rub it in a bit -- I cashed 4 IRS tickets, including the Belmont tri (and a small win bet on the longest winning price in Belmont history), and the tris for races 3, 11, and 12. Total profit -- and no syndicates here, was over $14,000. And I do have witnesses, some Rag. players who were waiting with me to cash their IRS tickets.

The 12, Quiet One was a huge play on both pattern and numbers in race 11. In race 12, the 5 had the best turf numbers and was a good key in that race. It helped, of course for a 24:1 shot to get put up by DQ.

The reason why the Sheets were so valuable today was not just that there were several horses that were very fast who went off at good odds, but the Sheets allowed me to toss out several horses getting lots of money who did not have a chance -- 3rd race One Tuff Fox and the 8 were tosses; Yankee Gentleman was a toss; War Emblem was a toss, and the favorite in the 12th was a toss on the Sheets -- ugly patterns make for ugly results by the horses making those patterns. BTW, per my previous post that some doubted, MDO's pattern did apparently signal that today was likely a day he would run well. I don't know how he looked on the TG sheets, but I did post yesterday that his Rag. Sheet pattern was a familiar one (see Quixote's Hope on May 18 at Pim) that signalled a good effort.

There's been a lot of trash talking by a couple people on this board (not by you HP), and I'll be glad to photocopy my W2s for you Alydar if you doubt me -- and sure it's just one day, but, when it's this good a day, your ROI will look pretty good for the rest of the year.

Well, that's all the gloating for now. I hope that HP and others did better in real betting than we did in the contest.