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!
