Curtis Crayon is not unlike Tiger Woods. Both are dominant performers. Woods is the best golfer anywhere. Crayon is the worst horse handicapper.
Woods has won three major titles in the same year, and with all the competition, pressure and just plain luck, you shouldn't be able to do that.
Crayon has picked nine winners in the 205 races run at Del Mar this season. Put a blindfold on, throw darts, flip a coin, and you could do better.
Woods delivers chilling weekend entertainment, and should do so for the next two decades. Crayon delivers three horses in each race that don't figure to finish in the money unless all the others fall down, and has been doing so for The Times for more than a decade.
Woods makes you feel good; Crayon can make you rich.
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TAKE THE EIGHTH race Sunday at Del Mar, which had a field of five horses. All you had to do was take Crayon's three choices listed in the newspaper, throw them out, and put everything you own on the two remaining horses to finish first and second. A real sure thing. Bet the house on the quinella.
And you would have won $6 for every $2 bet. That's known in the trade as "Easy Crayon money."
On almost a daily basis, Crayon provides a map to the gold mine, another special feature offered by The Times. If you were trying to pick winners Sunday, all you had to do was eliminate the 27 horses listed under Crayon's name in the newspaper, and select from the rest. There's no other publication anywhere that provides that kind of winning edge.
It's tough to win the pick six. Only two patrons had the winning horses in races four through nine, and they won more than $95,000 each. So consider the significant advantage--eliminating the 18 horses that Crayon tabbed as contenders in races four through nine--and you're buying dinner for everyone.
That's why The Times' circulation is so high--because of Curtis Crayon.
You think Bob Mieszerski, The Times' so-called horse expert, sells papers? "Misery" isn't going to make you rich. Sure, he has picked 73 winners at Del Mar, but big deal. That makes him correct one out of three times, making you a loser two out of three. He's just not as dependable as Crayon.
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CRAYON WORKS ON the production staff at the newspaper much of the week, but his contribution to the world of horse racing has not gone unnoticed.
