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July 14, 2010

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Up for Your Wednesday

Currently updated at press-time on this July 14, 2010, is your favorite page on the Interwebs (the unrivaled Pick of the Day page, which includes straight-V6 plus the exciting new LifeLiner Early-Pace-Speed Analyses); the ever-helpful WMF Report; and your pay-per-view extras for Delaware, Suffolk, Colonial and Woodbine.

When you visit the aforementioned Pick of the Day page, check out the new embedded Youtube video, finally swapped-out after nearly four years. To see the world-premiere spot in all its 16:9 hi-def glory, do shove the settings to 720p (HD) — the result is so clear and lifelike, you just might be tempted to slam your fist into your computer monitor to grab some of the props!

Additional Youtube Madness

Don't forget to visit our bright-and-shiny Youtube.com channel, appropriately named the Cynthia Publishing channel.

In addition to various forms of virulent (but, alas, hardly viral!) video propaganda, there are a couple of our favorite, current nonracing videos, both pertaining to the recently completed World Cup. You may chuckle — even if Spanish is not your native language!

P.S. The homegrown CPC videos look absolutely brilliant on your retina-quality iPhone 4 display, and only slightly less so on your first-gen iPad slate tablet slab. Just don't try making any cellular calls on either device!

The Special Season

This is reprinted from Saturday's late editions. While we wait for the current Hollypark stand to be put out of its misery, we recall the last few grim races of a long-ago champion named Lady's Secret. Both Hollypark and Lady's Secret were something special in their prime, but the end days of both are things no one should have to witness.

Yup. Here we are again. Late-July and August and early-September and Saratoga and Del Mar. Ya-hoooo!

Racing fans will go to great lengths to enjoy the Thoroughbreds at either extreme. The casual sorts will put on crazy headgear while attempting to turn the place into Royal Ascot, U.S.A., or else haul semi-sized coolers through the gates and at the same time put up with 99-and-44/100 percent relative humidity if not a downright drenching downpour.

The harder-core handicappers will dig like hippodrome archaeologists, examining each minute bit of equine information, turning over fossils of data they normally would just kick aside. You know how it is. It's a little more exciting to win at Saratoga or Del Mar. Or, hopefully, both.

That's special, and we at Cynthia Publishing are not immune. This year we are proud to announce the resurrection of the vaunted Winning Trainer Tricks for both tracks, Saratoga and Del Mar, beginning Wednesday, July 21, 2010.

This is where we get to don our own pith hats and make like hippodrome archaeologists. It's a painstaking process, one that would be prohibitive to employ year-round, but one that is exciting and enlightening and instructive to pull out once every 52 weeks, during the special season, the same way nature provides a fresh harvest of Maryland blue crabs, Northwest Rainier cherries or heirloom tomatoes.

All right, all right. You didn't come here to hear about Howard Carter, the Leakey Family or weekend brunch, so let's get down to where the hooves meet the dirt (or its imitation).

As you may have observed, trainers have their own patterns and preferences, and these idiosyncrasies come to their best light at the short meets of Saratoga and Del Mar. The past performances of the horses can be rendered meaningless, in which cases knowledge of the trainer's intentions becomes that hidden gem of information the public simply fails to unearth. In other words, while the great unwashed are busy handicapping the horses, they fail to understand the trainer's decisive role at both Saratoga and Del Mar.

Yes, just like casual fans and serious handicappers, the best trainers will point to Saratoga and Del Mar for their best wins. Bigger purses, more time in the spotlight, the adulation of the public: trainers will come to Saratoga and Del Mar not to vacation but to run their horses and run them with all positive intent. Yes, at Saratoga and Del Mar, the trainer frequently trumps the horse in terms of being decisive. Trainer work magic on horses that are out-of-form, have been on vacation or otherwise look blah.

This is where your Winning Trainer Tricks come in. We've studied these trainers in-depth for the last eight years running. We know what makes them fire their best shots at both Saratoga and Del Mar. We know their histories. We know how they operate. We understand their preferred methods for getting into the winner's circle. History repeats, and when it does, we usually are on top of it.

Fortunately for the win mutuels (as well as the other spots of your vertical exotics), these preferred trainer histories and patterns often contradict a horse's form. That's a big edge on the public. Furthermore, these preferred trainer histories and patterns aren't readily available in the past performances. That's yet another nice edge for yourself.

It's always nice to cash in — either on the win end or on the bottom of some juicy exacta or trizacta or super-duper — on a well-meant longshot the public simply cannot find. That's what we do for you. We uncover the tough ones time and again, and you get to savor the results.

The evening before each day's card at Saratoga or Del Mar, your Winning Trainer Tricks arrive in your e-mailbox. All the day's races are commented on, with direct and exact trainer-pattern matches especially noted. These are predictive, potent and profit-centered.

And when a race doesn't feature any exact trainer-pattern matches, we kick into hybrid mode with our revelatory race-history profiles. You know how all the pundits are busy handicapping the Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup using historical performance profiles? Well, did you know you can do the exact same thing with your average $25,000 maiden-claimer going six furlongs, or your run-of-the-mill entry-level allowance in a turf route? Yes! It's brilliant!

Once more, since you're handicapping the trainer (or historical race patterns) instead of the horses, you're edge is guaranteed. The information you get from your Winning Trainer Tricks will challenge, amaze and delight you.

It's been said that the great ones and the masters are the ones who make it look easy. Your daily Winning Trainer Tricks e-mail might look like only so many words, but that's the easy part. You don't see the hard parts: the eight years of data-collection, analysis and correlations that have gone into it. Instead, you just enjoy the end-product, the great results and engaging delivery. If Winning Trainer Tricks were a form factor, it would be an iPhone or a Bang & Olufsen component — simple and elegant, yet powerful and outstanding.

OK. It's less than two weeks 'til these premier meets, Saratoga and Del Mar, and the clock is ticking. Hit the dirt, turf and synthetic running from Day 1. Order today and be part of what many satisfied customers have called the most cost-effective handicapping advisory known to man.

Please click here to order.

P.S. Of course, best wishes for a prosperous Saratoga and Del Mar season.

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