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09/22/2007 - Las Vegas, NV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Travis Kvapil captured the pole for Saturday night's Smith's Las Vegas 350 Craftsman Truck Series race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The No.6 Roush Fenway Racing Ford circled the 1.5-mile variable-banked oval in 30.789 seconds (175.387 m.p.h.).
The pole victory was Kvapil's third of the season and fourth of his truck career.
"It's a really fast truck and my team has done a great job," said Kvapil. "I've never been to this configuration so I really didn't know what to expect."
Starting with Kvapil on the front row will be Mike Skinner who posted a time of 30.854 seconds.
David Green (30.954) and 2006 Craftsman Truck Series champion Todd Bodine (30.995) will make up row two.
Former Formula One World Champion, Jacques Villeneuve (1997), qualified seventh in his first NASCAR outing.
The truck series doesn't need to artificially create a close race like the Nextel Cup Series. That's because Ron Hornaday Jr. (starting 15th) and Skinner have both been spectacular in 2007 and the result is a great championship race.
Skinner led for most of the season, but Hornaday Jr. never let up and two races ago took over the top spot in the standings. He had a four-point edge heading into last week's race in New Hampshire.
On the 1.058-mile NHIS oval Hornaday Jr. put on a "show" leading 174 of 200 laps en route to the victory. The win gave the No.33 Kevin Harvick Inc. Chevrolet driver a 29-point margin over Skinner heading into this week's race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
The race at LVMS is the first of four events at a 1.5-mile oval over the final seven races. Skinner won at LVMS last fall and also won the last time the series was on a 1.5 track at Kentucky. But Hornaday Jr. can argue that he is pretty good on mile-and-a-half ovals too, with wins at Lowe's, Atlanta and Homestead.
The race is set to drop the green flag at 9 p.m. (et).
<< Messi double leads Barca past Sevilla
Madrid, Spain (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Argentina forward Lionel Messi led offensive
laden Barcelona to a 2-1 win over Sevilla at Nou camp Saturday afternoon.
Coming off an impressive performance in the team's 3-0 win over French Ligue 1
champions
<< Perez pitches Mets past Marlins
Miami, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Oliver Perez threw eight strong innings, giving
the Mets' bullpen some much-needed rest, as New York defeated the Florida
Marlins, 7-2, at Dolphin Stadium.
Ramon Castro ended 2-for-4 with a three-run hom
<< Ohio State hammers Northwestern
Columbus, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Todd Boeckman threw four touchdown passes --
three of them to Brian Robiskie -- as the 8th-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes
demolished Northwestern, 58-7, at Ohio Stadium.
Boeckman finished 11-of-14 for 179
<< United faces angry Fire side after extended break
Bridgeview, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - D.C. United has its playoff spot locked up
and is gunning for its second straight Supporter's Shield, given to Major
League Soccer's best regular season team.
The Chicago Fire are currently tied f
Mariners hold off Angels, stay alive in playoff race >>
Anaheim, CA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Miguel Batista allowed just one run on six hits
in 5 1/3 innings and Ichiro Suzuki was 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored as
the Seattle Mariners prevented the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from
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Teixeira lifts Braves; Brewers fall 2 1/2 behind Cubs >>
Atlanta, GA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mark Teixeira's RBI single in the bottom of the
11th inning sent Atlanta past Milwaukee, 4-3, in the third installment of a
four-game set from Turner Field.
Edgar Renteria drew a walk off Seth McClung (0
Another quick start for Lehigh in win over VMI >>
Bethlehem, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - For the second week in a row, a quick start
was the recipe for success for Lehigh in a 38-0 FCS victory over VMI.
Sedale Threatt (14-of-19, 231 yards and three TDs passing) fired a pair of
first-quarter
McGovern and Points lead in Boise >>
Boise, Idaho (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Overnight leader Jim McGovern has some company
atop the leaderboard. D.A. Points joined him in first after the third round of
the Boise Open.
McGovern birdied three of his last four for a three-under 68, w
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"You think you're hearing the scoop," says handicapper Lane Gold. "Then you get to the window, the odds are short, and you missed it."
Recognizing a wise-guy horse early is as hard as picking a Derby bonnet. That's because handicappers don't like hype (see ya, I Want Revenge). They want Thoroughbreds who look good losing prep races like the Santa Anita Derby. They eye horses who ate up the field after starting wide or made an easy transition from synthetic tracks to dirt. They look for ponies who showed muscle gain race to race and those who ran hard after several weeks' rest.
"A wise guy," says John Avello, a bookmaker at Wynn Las Vegas, "looks for a horse who can improve."
When I first wrote Horse Betting for The Mag, which I turned in a three weeks before Wednesday's draw, I predicted these three horses had wise guy potential:
CHOCOLATE CANDY (15-1 in mid-April, currently 20-1 according to Avello): His second-place finish at Santa Anita, following a seven-week layoff, proved two things: He can run after resting, and -- by losing a high-profile prep race -- he wouldn't be overhyped.
DESERT PARTY (15-1; 15-1): He was upset in the UAE Derby by a horse he had beaten twice. The public remembers his loss, but the wise guys his wins.
PIONEEROF THE NILE (8-1; 4-1): The big favorite at Santa Anita struggled to win, so he initially got less hype than Quality Road and I Want Revenge.
You may have noticed that the odds on Pioneerof the Nile have been cut in half, from 8-1 to 4-1. Which means the wise guys took a shine to him long before the post-position draw. But, to be honest, this is one of those years with four elite horses getting everyone's attention, squares and sharps alike.
"You're not gonna get a lot of chatter about a horse that isn't in that group, which includes Pioneer, I Want Revenge, Dunkirk and Friesan Fire," Avello told me Wednesday. "We don't have a group of horses behind those top four who look like real legit contenders."
Come Derby week, the final two elements in picking a wise guy horse are how he's working out and what gate he's coming out of.
(By the way, picking a Preakness favorite is a whole different bale of hay, partially based on how horses finish in the Derby. You can see my analysis of who has the best shot at Pimlico on Insider Sunday morning.)
Well, early in the week I Want Revenge, Pioneerof the Nile and Friesan Fire were working out better than anyone. Some thought Friesan Fire, currently 6-1, might have run too fast, burning a five-furlong run in :57 4/5. "When you are running that fast you have the sense that it took something out of him," says Gold. "The Derby is longer than any horse has run, and if they need that extra surge you worry they won't have it because they burned it in the workout."
But, Gold points out, Friesan Fire's trainer is Larry Jones, Two years ago his horse Hard Spun did a five-eighths workout in :57 3/5 and then went on to finish second, behind Street Sense, in the Derby. "Every trainer has different methods," says Gold. "And clearly he knows what he's doing."
Now, as for starting position, Gold says to remember this: Churchill Downs traditionally has 14 starting gates. For the Derby, it brings out auxiliary gates and between the original 14th gate and the new 15th gate, there is a little more space than there is between gates 1-14. "That 15 position will give you a precious second or two to sort out what's happening to your inside," says Gold. "Sixteen is also okay because you can follow the horse in front of you."
Dunkirk, one of the race favorites, is coming out of gate 15. In 16 is Baffert's Pioneerof the Nile. I Want Revenge drew 13, where Smarty Jones won from in 2004, and Friesan Fire picked the sixth position. "He doesn't have a lot of speed to the inside of him," says Gold. "So he will get a clear shot to be near the front."
All the jibber-jabber means this: Pioneerof the Nile has leapfrogged from 8-1 to being the second favorite, along with Dunkirk, behind I Want Revenge. Meanwhile, Friesan Fire, with a good trainer, a strong week of training and a decent post position, is still at 6-1. "By Saturday, it's possible he could go from fourth to the favorite," says Gold.
In other words, meet Friesan Fire, your 2009 wise guy horse.
"Now," says Avello, "it's time for action."
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