Jerry:

Myrlanski might well run to his 30/1 odds. I just thought it was neat that Hyman
Roth (fictional character in the Godfather) and Myrlanski (named for the real
life character Roth was based on) will have ran within a couple of days of each
other.

With regards to Morning Lines, this semi retired handicapper now prefers to get
the earliest version of DRF possible, the advance edition which has no program
numbers and no morning lines. As we all should know, the TGs, advance or
otherwise, have no MLs. I like to choose my runners in the horizontal wagers
without any awareness of the ML.

Concerning favorites (and this was discussed more in the "Long Island Handicap"
thread) I like to look for short price favorites from low percentage (less than
10% strike rate) outfits; I look to toss them, even if they have a numerical or
class edge, or endured "bad trips". To quote the "Big Tuna", "you are what your
record says you are." (But also look for habitual low percentage operations which
suddenly win races in bunches, such as one NYRA trainer who trained an Eclipse
award winning NYB filly in the early 90s but has been a 6% - 8% operator for the
last 25 years and has won with alarming frequency over the past 2 months).