Eddie Macâs Book: Belmont Weekend Offers Tempting Stakes
I always have a handicapping hangover after Oaks-Derby weekend, no matter whether I won, broke even or lost. It’s glorious to watch and wager on top-class horses in race after race. On the flip side, it makes dealing with weekday cards of cheap claimers and one-for-life allowance types even less appealing.
I usually take most of the next week off, but I made an exception Sunday morning, when I bet on the English 1,000 Guineas for 3-year-old fillies. Thanks to a tip from the British site sportinglife.com, I hit a $10 win play on Mother Earth, a 7-1 shot trained by Aidan O’Brien and ridden by Frankie Dettori. (I later learned she went off at 10-1 in England, but you have to take what the racing gods give you.) I bless her name because she put me slightly into the black after two days of dramatic mood swings caused by the pari-mutuel ebb and flow.