The DAILY Southern California Horses To Watch

The SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HORSES TO WATCH has gone through many positive changes over the last decade as they approach their 10th year of publishing with the opening of Del Mar 2002.  But through their metamorphosis, everything before 06/5/02 seems to pale in comparison to them taking their final step into the new-age with the
delivery of their first on-line DAILY SCHTW.

They’ve always been light years in front of their competition and continue to set the pace in the handicapping world with their innovative and always informative SCHTW.

When handicappers couldn’t get barshoe information any longer because all the shoeboards had disappeared at the 3 major ovals in Southern California (Del Mar, Santa Anita and Hollywood Park), the SCHTW picked up the ball!

Every other publication refused to get their hands dirty and actually do the daily gruntwork of looking at every single horse in every single race to offer their readers this absolutely essential betting information! 

To this very day the SCHTW remains the only source of barshoe information for the entire major Southern California racing circuit.  And with the delivery of their first DAILY SCHTW on Wednesday 06/05/02, they are still improving their product every day to increase the benefits to their readers.  In fact, in the barshoe bad feet category, the DAILY SCHTW now includes all horses running in ¾ shoes, square toed shoes, or with patched ¼ cracks, as well as those in barshoes and/or covered frogs.

The reason they’ve flourished over the past 10 years against the giants in this industry is because the staff of the SCHTW personally generates every single bit of information contained in their reports all by themselves!
Their daily reporting is proprietary in every sense of the word and totally unduplicated in the handicapping world. There is never any 2nd hand bits of inside information offered to their readership and there never will be! 

The new on-line DAILY SCHTW  now includes the following income-producing one-of-a-kind categories:

1--RUNNING PROFILES

This area informs all SCHTW clients of exactly what running style is winning at every specific dirt or turf distance.
Are wire-to-wire horses dominating at a mile on the dirt or is it mid-pack runners?  There isn’t any guesswork with the new DAILY SCHTW, as all turf and dirt distances are updated daily and are up-to-the minute.

2--THE MASTER NO-NO LIST
 
This never duplicated list is the best instant throwout companion in the entire handicapping world.  It contains close to 1000 problematic horses currently running on the major Southern California circuit that you can toss out from a win standpoint with utmost confidence!  Included in the Master No-No List are all horses running with barshoes, covered frogs, ¾ shoes, square toed shoes, stops blowouts, martingales, run-out bits, or are current members of their unique and now infamous SCHTW vetlist.

3--THE SPECIAL 7 CATEGORIES

     These special categories are listed daily for some specific horses and are taken from the private notes of the SCHTW staff.  They include the following headings:

1---HORSES ON THE UPGRADE

2---STRONG MAIDEN PERFORMANCES

3---STIFFS

4---HORSES IN A TAILSPIN

5---IMPORTED TURF NEWCOMERS

6---NEXT OUT BOUNCERS

7---HORSES RETURNING FROM A 90 DAY OR MORE LAYOFF

4--TRACK-SPECIFIC BREEDING (NEW FEATURE)

The new DAILY SCHTW is the only publication in the world that offers track-specific breeding for every single runner
in every single race. Winning sire grandsire and damsire ratings for both the turf and the are offered separately by track for Del Mar, Santa Anita and Hollywood. Universal sire ratings that include all tracks across America fail to tell handicappers if a specific sire, grandsire or damsire has actually produced winners over the track and the
surface they are wagering on at the moment! What works in New York, Kentucky or Florida rarely works on the major circuit in Southern California!

5--TURF RAIL POSITION LAST OUT (NEW FEATURE)

This crucial information is listed for every last out turf runner.  Was the rail at 10 feet out, 15 feet out, 20 feet out or
30 feet out?  If it was anything but at zero, a horse’s last out performance has to be adjusted to reflect this situation! For every path a horse is removed from the rail on either turn, it’s been mathematically proven that he loses a length. If the rails are out 30 feet, that is about 5 full paths. Even if a horse runs flush against the rail in a 2-turn turf route when the rails are out 30 feet, he loses 4 lengths on each turn vs. running against the rail when at zero feet. If the rails are out 30 feet, that comes to 8 total lengths and thus you can see the need for adjustments when comparing
various last out good or bad performances! This info is now at your fingertips for every turf race!

6--PADDOCK PHYSICALITY NOTES LAST OUT (NEW FEATURE)
 
Directly taken from SCHTW staff member’s personal paddock notes, you’ll know if a horse was walking short with poor extension, had enlarged front ankles, was too thin, lacked muscle definition, was fractious, walked wide, stood wide going under tack, had poor color, lacked energy walking with his head low and bobbing, was sore, outright lame, had
liniment plastered somewhere on his body, pinned his ears, sported a very negative east/west tail, was washy, had front leg sweat, dripping kidney sweat, iced fronts, diarrhea, or any other negative attributes that contributes to defeat!

7---PRE-RACE WARM-UP NOTES (NEW FEATURE)

In order for any horse or athlete to perform to their maximum abilities, oxygen-delivering red blood cells must be brought up from the spleen. Without them, the runner is nothing more than an also-ran! If you doubt this for one second, just ask any veterinarian or doctor! The DAILY SCHTW now offers the serious handicapper exacting warm-up notes that include not only strong pre-race exercise that indicates the barn was sending, but also trot-only or walked horses.  These warm-ups or non-warm ups explain both good and bad performances.  Was the chalk just stiffed @ 6-5 because he didn’t get a proper warm-up. With the addition of this new and totally exclusive DAILY SCHTW feature, you’ll never have to guess again!

8--GATE NOTES LAST RACE (NEW FEATURE)
 
There are many extremely negative things that occur in the final 1 to 2 minutes leading up to the actual loading of the horses into the starting gate.  This is in addition to problems at the starting gate itself!  These occurrences can be difference between winning and losing.  The new DAILY SCHTW now informs readers of starting gate problems that include things like refused gate, forcibly loaded, excessive wetness or washiness, sudden fractiousness once a horse realizes it is showtime, thrown jockeys indicating a horse didn’t want to race, horses prematurely breaking thru the gate both held and runaways and many other nuances.

9--POST RACE GALLOP-OUTS FOR ALL HORSES (NEW FEATURE)
 
Horses pulled up too quickly once crossing the finish line (regardless of actual finish position) are most likely to develop
muscle soreness soon after cooled out.  This soreness could last right up until and including their next start! The critical 3 or 4 minutes of a post-race warm-down after any strenuous effort is just as important as the pre-race warm-up.  Horses should be lightly galloped out to the backstretch, turned around and lightly galloped back to the unsaddling area.  This slow post-race warm-down gradually takes a horse from maximum output to the needed relaxation
state just as the pre-race warm-up takes him from relaxation to readiness for maximum output.  They are different sides of the same coin.  All horses pulled up within 150 yards in the post-race are now noted as QUICK or POOR PULL-UPS! 

10--OVERALL POST RACE EVALUATION NUMBER LAST OUT

Just as we offer overall physicality numbers from the paddock before the running of a race and the actual pre-race warm-up numbers, so too do we offer our SCHTW readers overall post-race evaluation numbers to complete the entire picture of any specific horse on any given day.

11--MISCELLANEOUS CHANGES LAST RACE (NEW FEATURE)
 
Changes of any kind can often be the difference between winning and losing for any horse.  The DAILY SCHTW has created this new feature to remind you of such changes.  In the past performances, have you ever missed things like 1st wraps, wraps off, gelded, blinkers on or off, 1st lasix, got claimed, raced without a whip, etc. We all have at one time or another, but now it will be virtually impossible for you to miss these basic but often crucial changes, as they are listed as your final failsafe when handicapping.

As a means of introducing the new DAILY SCHTW to the handicapping world, the SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HORSES TO WATCH is offering you a free and current DAILY SCHTW sample along with an updated User’s Guide.

Why not take a look at what your daily handicapping could be missing that might be the difference between a winning and a losing day? 

Seeing is believing and the proof is always in the pudding!

Special: FREE SAMPLE

PTS, Inc. has made special arrangements with JOE TAKACH to personally provide our readers with a FREE SAMPLE One time only. Just email Joe directly at joetakach@worldnet.att.net , mention ITS special, and the day you would like to receive your FREE DAILY SCHTW (Must be no later than 8:30 pm Pacific time the night before when requesting next days issue).

Be sure to provide the email address or Fax number you would like it sent and Joe will be happy send it to you

If you'd like a Real Time Sample(you must be on-line to receive) please mail to:joetakach@worldnet.att.net

It will turn out to be the best friend you ever encountered at the
racetrack