With the 2010 Saratoga racing meet now concluded, let's see how Nanoburgh did in the crystal ball business. Let's go to the score card:Prediction: Meet handle (on-track) would be down 5-10%
Result: Down 7.8%
Prediction: A Zenyatta-Rachel Alexandra matchup will not happen
Result: It did not
Prediction: The Travers winner will not be one of the Triple Crown winners
Result: He was not
Prediction: Top Trainer = Todd Pletcher
Result: Todd Pletcher
Prediction: Top Jockey = John Velasquez
Result: John Velasquez
Prediction: In-town tourism spending during the meet will be down
Result: Conflicting early numbers, but we may have been wrong on this one. I guess we will need to wait for sales tax figs to conclude.
Not a bad tally, is it? Now combine this with our having run the tables with 100% accuracy in the last Saratoga city council elections and we're on a roll!
We are now accepting offers for our predictions of the upcoming elections.
6 comments:
you're just that good RM!
Am all-seeing soothsayer you are.
So how'd you do at the track with those magical powers?
Let's not get carried away here, now.
After all, you're talking to a guy who within a two-year period turned down the chance to be:
- Employee # 150 at Apple
- Employee # 8 at MapInfo
Footnote: in the interest of full disclousre, on another past prediction:
- Even though I predicted Mr Murphy's victory over Mr Tedisco, I did get the Absentee Ballots count wrong when that race went into overtime.
RE: this years 'at the track?' ledger:
- In the black, but it (literally) took the very last race to get me there.
RM
My predictions for Nov.
Republicans take both houses.
But I am up in the air on whether they fly the nazi flag over the Capitol.
OK, here's another one -- hot off the wire.
Mayor Daley of Chicago just announced that he is all done in that role. No mas, he says.
THE PREDICTION:
Rahm Emanuel meaves the Obam administration to seek his hometown post.
Mark the time on here, and file it!
What's tonights Lotto #'s?
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