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09/26/2007 - Florence, KY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense and Derby runner-up Hard Spun top a field of five for Saturday's $350,000 Kentucky Cup Classic at Turfway Park. The 1 1/8 mile race will be the first start for Street Sense on an all-weather surface.
Street Sense, owned by James Tafel, is the 3-5 morning-line favorite and will be ridden by regular rider Calvin Borel from post three. Both he and Hard Spun are facing older horses for the first time.
Street Sense won both starts at Saratoga this summer, capturing the Jim Dandy and Travers Stakes. Trained by Carl Nafzger, the colt has won six of 11 career starts for more than $4 million.
"He's doing great, and he's ready to run," said Nafzger. "If he wasn't doing great, he wouldn't be running anywhere. I'm not doing anything. The horse is doing it all. I'm just trying not to mess him up, just stay out of his way and let Calvin and him do their thing. Street Sense has two assets. One, he's completely relaxed during the race. He'll wait for Calvin. And second, when you ask him he's got a heck of a turn of foot. You can push that button the first quarter of a mile if you want and he'll go. He and Calvin have a real rapport."
Street Sense would become the first horse to win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic.
Hard Spun has been made the 8-5 second choice for the Kentucky Cup Classic. Owned by Rick Porter, the colt will break from inside post with Mario Pino in the saddle.
Trainer Larry Jones sent out Hard Spun on the Travers undercard to win the King's Bishop Stakes at Saratoga. He was third in the Preakness and fourth in the Belmont Stakes, he then finished second to Any Given Saturday in the Haskell at Monmouth Park. He has earned $1.4 million in 11 lifetime start with six wins.
This is a return engagement for Hard Spun at Turfway Park. In his final start before the Run for the Roses the colt captured the Lane's End Stakes.
"We probably couldn't have imagined what has happened since we were last at Turfway," said Jones. "This is a great thing for the track to have the top two horses from the Derby. It won't be an easy spot for any of the other horses that join the field."
The 4-1 third choice is Stream Cat, who is partially owned by former Duke basketball star Bobby Hurley. The four-year-old gelding will be ridden by Julien Leparoux from post four.
Trained by Patrick Biancone, Stream Cat is coming off a fourth place finish on the turf in the Arlington Million. He has a win on the all-weather track at Keeneland earlier this year and has earnings of $423,810 in 13 career starts.
Completing the field are Cat Shaker and Muqbil.
The Kentucky Cup Classic has a scheduled post-time of 5:42 p.m. (et).
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The NFL preseason is around the corner, with a tempting Hall of Fame match kicking off on Sunday. But bettors must stay vigilant. Wagering on NFL exhibition games is an entirely different beast than the regular season. Most fans don't recognize the players on the field because starters get as much action in August as Warcraft fans get on Prom night.
The only certainty about the NFL this time of year is uncertainty – and yet there are some who say betting in August can be a gold mine.
“I actually feel the NFL preseason presents solid profit opportunities for sharp bettors and handicappers,” Sports Expert Steve Merril explains. “My experience has been that the sportsbooks fear the preseason, which is evident by lower limits and massive moves.”
The line moves are attributed to the limited knowledge available regarding playing-time distribution. One team’s top unit out on the field for one more series has an impact on the pointspread. Setting lines in the preseason often is a shot in the dark.
“We base the betting lines mostly on public perception,” Pete Korner, founder of the Sports Club in Las Vegas, says. “It’s very tough to predict, almost a guessing game.”
The preseason is all about figuring out who’s in and for how long.
“It becomes a race between bettors and oddsmakers to find out how long the quarterbacks are going to stay in,” Korner admits. “If a sharp gets the information first, he could exploit an early line. I’m a full believer in moving the line in the preseason if the books find out something late in the week.”
Determining what each team’s motive is can help bettors handicap. To do this you must pay close attention to the philosophies head coaches employ in exhibition play.
“You need to know what a coach is trying to accomplish,” says Covers Expert Bryan Leonard. “Sometimes a new coach will want to instill a winning attitude. Others just want to make sure their starters don’t get hurt."
So how do you distinguish who’s playing scared and who’s playing for keeps?
“Head coaches on the hot seat or new coaches trying to implement a winning attitude usually try harder to win in the preseason,” Merril says.
Cleveland Browns head coach Romeo Crennel fits this criteria. He’s entering his third season as the sideline boss and has yet to lead the Browns to more than six wins.
Cleveland is an enticing bet as well because of the unresolved quarterback situation. General manager Phil Savage sacrificed the Browns’ first-round pick in next year’s draft for Brady Quinn, but the former Notre Dame quarterback hasn’t signed or reported to training camp yet.
Charlie Frye and Derek Anderson split time at QB last season and it looks like either player (or even Quinn) could be the opening-day starter.
“If a team has quarterback depth and the pecking order hasn’t been decided, it’s a big advantage,” Leonard says.
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The New England Patriots have long been considered one of the deeper teams in the NFL and coach Bill Belichick has said in the past he’s unafraid of stars getting hurt in games with nothing on the line. He shocked his colleagues in 2003 by playing some of his starters on special teams in the preseason.
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