Vinnie Ralph's Saratoga & Del Mar Pick 4 plays - 9/2/2004

We're pleased to offer you our multi-ticket strategies for both the Saratoga and Del Mar Pick 4's each day throughout their respective race meets. 

We'll also be providing you with our featured multi-ticket Pick 3 strategy on the last three races of each racing day at both the SPA and Del Mar. Our strategy for both the Pick 3 and the Pick 4 is to emphasize our "key" horses by using them on all of our tickets, while allowing for the possibility of one of our longer priced "backup" horses to light up the board. We use our backup horses for each race just once, on separate tickets. The advantages of using a multiple ticket strategy rather than putting all of our horses on a single ticket can be boiled down to one thing....COST. This is especially crucial when the lower paying Pick 3's and Pick 4's come in. Our key / backup approach helps us keep our investment as low as possible while still allowing for a substantial upside if one of our longshots comes in. 

As always, we suggest waiting until late scratches are announced before making your wagers. Just one or two scratches, especially among our "key" horses (those that appear more than once on our tickets) can dramatically reduce the cost of these plays. Here we go...................

Saratoga

Pick 4 - Races 6-7-8-9  Approximate Post Time: 3:43 EDT

Late Pick 3 - Races 7-8-9  Approximate Post Time: 4:15 EDT

Saratoga Pick 4 - "demand 3+ keys" ticket configuration  note: the shaded areas outline our Pick 3 tickets for rces 7-8-9					PICK 4  $1.00	PICK 3  $1.00
Ticket #	Race 6	Race 7	Race 8	Race 9	COST	COST
#1	5,6,7	1,4,6	1,4,5,6	2,4,6,7,8,9,10	$252	$84
#2	5,6,7	1,4,6	7,8,11	6,9,10	$81	$27
#3	5,6,7	3	1,4,5,6	6,9,10	$36	$12
#4	2,8,10,11	1,4,6	1,4,5,6	6,9,10	$144	N/A
Total Saratoga Investment					$513	$123

Del Mar

Pick 4 - Races 5-6-7-8  Approximate Post Time: 7:05 PDT

Late Pick 3 - Races 6-7-8   Approximate Post Time: 7:35 PDT

Del Mar "demand 3+ keys" Pick 4 ticket configuration  note: the shaded areas outline our Pick 3 tickets for races 6-7-8					PICK 4  $1.00	PICK 3  $1.00
Ticket #	Race 5	Race 6	Race 7	Race 8	COST	COST
#1	2,5	1,2,4	2,3,5	1,2,3,4,6,7,8	$126	$63
#2	2,5	1,2,4	4,7,8	3,6,7,8	$72	$36
#3	2,5	3,5,6,7,8	2,3,5	3,6,7,8	$120	$60
#4	1,3,4,6,7	1,2,4	2,3,5	3,6,7,8	$180	N/A
Total Del Mar Investment:					$498	$159

Be sure to get all late scratches before wagering. 

Best of luck at the windows!