NG – No Good?

That's the Best Compliment I Ever Received.

We've been beating the drum for weeks that we've got the goods at Saratoga.

A great opening weekend was only the beginning.

Today?

We didn't just cash.

We hit it out of the park.

I've been around Saratoga for well over a decade, and from the very first day I knew I belonged there, not being popular but taking their monies, via the greatest parimutuel game. I'll never forget my first week on the grounds. A trainer walked up to me and said the clockers were telling everyone not to deal with me. Their exact words?

"He's NG... No Good."

I smiled.

Because I knew exactly what they meant.

They knew i played it by the book and what I got on my stopwatch, not the fairy tales that were dissiminated for the public from the clocker stand

When people in this game don't want anyone talking to you, it usually means you're onto something. Information is currency, and the people sitting on it want it for themselves and for their clients.

I've seen this movie before.

When the fella from Turf Authority hired someone I had trained, and immediately started the process of trying to discredit me, people started saying we were finished, that he was putting us out of business.

I've dealt with that kind of nonsense my entire life. Somebody always wants to diminish what you do, cancel you, write you off, that was 15 years ago.

Forget about it.

You don't survive in this game by worrying about what other people say and I have done it for 40 years.

You have to produce.

And today...

We didn't produce.

We detonated.

Boom isn't a big enough word.

Ka-Boom. Ka-Bang. Like the old Batman with Adam West, where every punch exploded across the screen.

That's what today felt like.

A $55 winner on top.

Cold $ 1 exacta: $171.14

Cold $1 trifecta. $810

And plenty more. we pick 5 if you played it right was $71K.

Now, I'd love nothing more than to do it all over again on Saturday.

But the best part of the day wasn't the tickets.

It was the texts.

The emails.

Hearing from people who cashed.

That's the Italian in me. I genuinely want people to succeed aside from the boisterious part Sure, you don't want to be on my bad side—but if you're with us, I'm pulling for you.

We don't lie, we don't cheat, we just do what we do.

Your success is our success.

It's really that simple.

The other thing that made me smile today was hearing from a customer who appreciated the analysis itself—not just the winner.

That doesn't happen enough.

We don't write, "Best figure. Cost a lot of money. Working well."

That's the industry's safe language. It's a polite way of saying, "I like the horse, but I really don't know why."

We do.

Because we've lived it.

We've handled racehorses.

We've managed racing careers: Bo Cruz, Bridget Moloney, Sea of Pleasure, Remember Boffi, Ms. Locust Point, Officer Quigley and others.

Every horse in our care has a plan, and year after year we've won races at around a 16-18% clip.

We don't just hand out peppermints.

And we certainly don't spend all day obnoxiously promoting every time they stick their tongue out.

Most people don't even know about horses like Bansky's. That's fine. We don't need headlines. You know that horse is a better horse than his 5 2nds give credit for, but he has earned over $100K. We bred him.

We need results.

And Saratoga has been delivering them.

Days like today remind me that 99% of the betting public is still chasing the same tired information everyone else has, are you one of them?

If you are come on over.

They're playing yesterday's game.

We're trying to beat tomorrow's race.

To everyone who cashed today, congratulations.

To everyone who trusted our work, thank you.

To everyone else...

Better luck next time.

Signed,

NG