Give thanks for DRF info

Hats off to the Daily Racing Form for providing more statistics than any handicapper can possibly use effectively. There is such an overload of information that one rarely knows what to look at and what to dismiss.

Luckily for me, I pay particular attention to the trainer/jock stats: Who rides for who when it's go time for a win. Today's second race at Aqueduct paid me handsomely for my devotion to this tidbit.

Lady's Lunar Luck paid $78. $25.8, $14.2 across the board, beat the odds-on betting favorite for a $380 exacta and was an easy $2 daily-double wheel that returned $437.

Key to my selection was the 50% win record of white-hot trainer Dan Conway (19% in 2009); 67% when using jock Eddie Castro; solid numbers from sprint to route (24%). Although there was no stat for first-time turf wins, that changes today. Bottom line, this was also a two-year-old race--by definition an open contest. Read your form!

I'm King (Congie) of the world, $88

Family demands have left little time to post to this blog. But had to publicly pat myself on the back for collecting nearly $4,000, today because of Monster-Mover King Congie in Aqueduct's fourth race.

Despite enormous 43-1 odds, I was so confident in this two-year-old colt that I made Congie the nucleus of my bets from races two through five. That means, the horse completed my second race pick-three, was wheeled with all in the fourth double and was keyed with logical contenders in the exacta and third-race pick-three.

Bunches all around. Collected on everything. Truthfully, there was a second mover in the fourth race that required a small saver wager. I was convinced, however, that expert conditioner Albertrani and pilot David Cohen were due to pay their up-to-no-good taxes. Happy to go along for the ride.

The move is a monster when it hits!