Preakness Day is finally here, in the most frashumbled Triple Crown season you could ever imagine.   

A solid field is assembling, and given the good cards also at Belmont and Keeneland, the day should be ripe with betting opportunities.

I’ll take this chance to roll something out . . . a sneak peek that for the moment I will simply call “the software” as I have been working on building my angles all into one sheet.   It uses Bris data, and ultimately is intended to somewhat mirror the old “Full Card Reports” sheets that were available on the web, but have now gone defunct.   Several guys in my regular Pick 6 crew swore by the sheets, and its ability to find odds and turf overlays among other factors.    I liked it’s ability to find dead-lock singles where one horse had a serious advantage and it was not advantageous to play against.

By the opposite token, it can also find a bad favorite that you may want to take a shot against.

How many times do you redboard a race, only to find a very logical angle that you may have missed, based on either speed or time constraints, or data overload ?

Of course, everyone has their own systems and theories – this is simply meant to help distill the most logical angles.  The Preakness sheet appears below.  Be forewarned, this is as yet half-finished, and there are still many pace and speed angles, pedigree angles and more to add.

It’s sorted by power ranking, a good place to start.  At a glance, no real surprises, with Authentic on top.  Perhaps a bit of a surprise that Swiss Skydiver ranks just ahead of Art Collector.  Both of the top two show recent sharp workouts, a plus.  The accumulated angles on Mr. Big News may have him ticketed for another in the money finish.  Like the third off the layoff angle as peaking at the right time. Interesting that Thousand Words fits on Speed Ranking.

I don’t think this is the best wagering race in the history of the triple crown.   Slight edge to Authentic, but Art Collector, even Swiss Skydiver and Thousand Words wouldn’t be a shock to me.  If Authentic gets pounded to even money or less, he’ll be hard to play, and may rob value even as the key on top.  If any of the others drift to the 8-1 neighborhood I’ll start to get interested.

So what are your favorite “pet” angles ?   Who ya got ?