Jon Stettin’s Blog
2021 Belmont Stakes – If You Like Two Use One The easy way out if you like two horses is to use both in your multi-race wagers. Sure, I will do that occasionally, but often I will take those opportunities...
The Pennine Ridge Stakes – Can Lightning Strike Twice Last week I wrote about betting a horse off a bad race and how it can be a profitable angle. It worked out well as Get Smokin went gate to wire...
The Seek Again Stakes – Overlay Angles Most handicappers love when they see a horse who is going to go off longer odds than they should or deserve to be. The overlay, as they say, is one of the better...
The Sneak Attack If you have been reading my columns here or at Past the Wire, then you already know a few things. I am fine with cashing less tickets but winning more money. I like to go for kill...
Dutching, An Underused Tool of the Horseplayer Dutching, An Underused Tool of the Horseplayer There are so many tools available to the horseplayer today. Between past performances that go into detail, raw speed figures, trip calculating speed figures, distance traveled...
How to Handle a Lock How do you handle a lock? With a key, of course. Well, first things first, there are no locks in horse racing. That is why they always have to run the race. After hitting the...
The Big Three Fresh off a nice win with Known Agenda in the Florida Derby, it is only natural to look at the three Kentucky Derby preps for Saturday with confidence. The Blue Grass at Keeneland was the easiest for...
The 2021 Florida Derby and Mandatory Payout Pick 6 The Grade 1 Florida Derby anchors the mandatory rainbow 6 payout on Saturday, and I think the pool will be about 7 million. The derby is an interesting race this year...