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"As a Pick 4 and Pick 6 specialist, I've learned that success all boils down to two things. The first, obviously, is sound handicapping.......separating your "keys" from your "backups" from your "tosses". The second part of the puzzle, often overlooked in importance, is setting up your tickets the right way. This is especially true with the Pick 6. We take no shortcuts on either".  ...more

VINNIE RALPH

Vinnie Ralph's Exotic Wagering Report is published Friday through Sunday

Thoroughbred Pick 4 Complete Tickets and analysis of today's Pick 3 and Pick 4 opportunities from around the country. This package gives you SIX separate chances to win an exotic wager with one selection guide!! .  View Sample Report $19.99
Thoroughbred Pick 6 Complete Tickets and analysis of today's Pick 6 - only offered on carryover pools in excess of $300,000. $24.95
Harness Pick 4 Complete Tickets and analysis of today's Pick 4 from the Meadowlands. View Sample  $19.95


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Vinnie Ralph has over 30 years of extensive handicapping experience in both Thoroughbred and Harness racing. After reading his first handicapping book, "Ainslie's Complete Guide to Harness Racing" while still in high school, he cut his "handicapping teeth" on the Harness side of the game in the fall of 1970 on the Yonkers/Roosevelt circuit. Like many racing fans of that era, Vinnie quickly became enamored of the Thoroughbred game during the 1973 Triple Crown campaign of the immortal Secretariat.

In the early '90's Vinnie began assembling his own comprehensive information bank on two of his growing handicapping passions, the Kentucky Derby and the Breeders' Cup. He's the only one we know of who has a complete library of Kentucky Derby past performances going back to 1952, as well as all of the Breeders' Cup past performances going back to the first running in 1984.

Over the years, Vinnie has used this wealth of information to identify important handicapping concepts and trends that have appeared in articles he's written for American Turf Monthly, beginning with the Breeders' Cup Distaff in 1991. In subsequent years Vinnie has written American Turf Monthly articles on the BC Mile, BC Turf and BC Classic. When it was chosen to be reprinted for the 1999 Breeders' Cup issue, Vinnie's 1993 BC Classic piece was named by then Editor Ian Blair as the best "system article" he ever ran at American Turf Monthly. Vinnie also wrote the lead handicapping articles on the Kentucky Derby for "ATM" in 1993 and 1994.

In 1995, Vinnie followed his home grown "checklist" approach to the Kentucky Derby to his best single race score ever, cashing the $480 Thunder Gulch/Tejano Run exacta 13 times via a 5 horse box and a secondary front & back part wheel on Tejano Run, his key horse.

1998 was a banner handicapping year for Vinnie, who parlayed his 4 figure score on the $291.80 Real Quiet/Victory Gallop Kentucky Derby exacta into a "megascore" in the inaugural $1,000,000 guaranteed Pick 6 at Hollywood Park on 6/14/98. On that day Vinnie's team of investors cashed a winning Pick 6 ticket for $53,357.60, taking home a total of over $68,000 including consolations on their investment of $5,936.

In 2000, Vinnie's "checklist" approach to handicapping the Breeder's Cup worked to perfection, as his group of Breeders' Cup investors cashed in for the $45,772 Pick 6. The total take in that Pick 6 exceeded $54,000 with consos. About a month later, Vinnie's group struck again, sinking their teeth into a $494,000 two day carryover at Hollywood.  When the dust settled, they cashed the $9,509 Pick 6 four times. The total take that day exceeded $44,000, including 62 consos of $102 each on their total wager of $6,144.

Recently Vinnie has been focusing more and more of his handicapping energy on the Pick 4, a superb wagering tool which has been growing in popularity at big and small tracks alike, both Thoroughbred and Harness. The Meadowlands Harness has been offering their $50,000 guaranteed Saturday night Pick 4 pool for well over a year. Sam Houston now has TWO nightly Pick 4's....with a carryover provision to boot. Cal Expo Harness recently began a $25,000 guaranteed Pick 4 pool on Sunday nights.

The Pick 4 will be the focal point of Vinnie's offerings on our website, with a flexible approach that fits the level of difficulty and pool size of each individual Pick 4 situation. As a big proponent of partnering on Pick 4 and Pick 6 wagers in pursuit of those monster payoffs, many of Vinnie's multiple ticket plays will not be inexpensive. But in most cases they'll keep you right in the hunt….and put you in the winner's circle…..as you'll soon find out.

For more on Vinnie, click here to read his January 2001 interview with noted racing author Mark Cramer. 
 
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