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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. -- New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton is moonlighting this week as Ryan Palmers caddie at the Greenbrier Classic. With the start of NFL training camp later this month, Payton said he was planning to spend a week relaxing at The Greenbrier resort in West Virginia. One thing led to another, and Payton ended up agreeing to help Palmer, who gave his regular PGA Tour caddie the week off. "Its pretty cool to hear the mindset of one of the great coaches in the game, Super Bowl winning coach," Palmer said. After two days of participating in practice rounds and pro-am events, Payton said Wednesday he realized "this isnt a vacation." Payton and Palmer are good friends who met in Dallas. They see each other when Palmer plays in the Zurich Classic in Louisiana and theyve played an occasional round together during the summers. While Payton said he isnt good at playing golf, he said hes comfortable with figuring out yardage at the Greenbrier Classic, which starts Thursday. Payton compares being a caddie to visualizing an NFL game through the eyes of a quarterback and said hes taking the opportunity seriously. "I know what game week feels like for me in the fall, and I know what it will feel like for him and what it does feel like for all these golfers," Payton said. "Just to be invisible as a caddie and do your job and be supportive, those are the things that I look at as being important for me this week." To which Palmer added jokingly: "Just shut up and keep up. Thats it." Palmer, who has four top 10 finishes this season, said other caddies had warm reactions to Payton. While the best work in golf is done in a quiet environment while footballs best work is amid a stadium full of screaming fans, the discipline required to succeed is the same, Payton said. "(Theres) a lot of tedious work that goes for the most part unnoticed," Payton said. "And its pretty interesting to be around this venue and just see how these guys get around the course and whats going through their mind." Payton had plenty of time to play golf during his one-year suspension as part of the NFLs bounty investigation. He was reinstated in January. The Saints went 7-9 last season and missed the playoffs for the first time in four years. "I know our players are looking forward to getting back," Payton said.Cheap Air Max Sneakers . "I wrote 36 on my sheet at the beginning of the game," the Cincinnati coach said, referring the yard line the ball would need to be snapped from. Cheap Jordans From China . Tests earlier this week revealed a Grade 2 left hamstring strain for Sabathia, who was hurt in last Fridays start against San Francisco. Its an injury that will require about eight weeks to heal. 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Indian on Saturday at Saratoga, jockey Joe Bravo came back to Monmouth Park, where he picked up three more graded stakes victories Sunday.The last of Bravos stakes triple came when he guided 5-2 favorite Itsonlyactingdad to a daylight victory in the Grade 3, $110,000 Matchmaker Stakes for fillies and mares on turf.Earlier on the card, Bravo won the Grade 2 Monmouth Cup on heavily favored Bradester and the Grade 3 Oceanport on 5-2 public choice Blacktype. He barely missed a four-win stakes day when Eskenformoney finished a neck short of Genre in the Grade 3 Molly Pitcher.After my day at Saratoga yesterday being able to come down here with the mounts I had is just living a dream, Bravo said. Its fun to deal with good horses and with these horses any jock in the jocks room could have sat on any one of these horses and won the race. Its just nice that it was me.Means Well, a 33-1 outsider led throughout the first mile of the 1-1/8-mile grass race, contested over yielding grounnd, setting fractions of 48.dddddddddddd38 seconds, 1:14.38, and 1:39.87. The 4-year-old Itsonlyactingdad, seventh after the first six furlongs, was closing strongly on the outside through the stretch. She got within a length of the lead with a furlong remaining and finished 1-1/4 lengths clear of runner-up Tammy the Torpedo. It was another 3-3/4 lengths back to Uchenna, who nosed out Bureau de Change for third.The winning time was 1:52.27.It was the first career stakes victory for Itsonlyactingdad, a daughter of Giants Causeway trained by Todd Pletcher for Starlight Racing. Her best previous finish in a stakes came when she was second in last years Belmont Oaks.What makes this filly special is that she did it with so much ease, said Bravo, who was aboard Itsonlyactingdad for the first time. Every time I pointed her at something she listened perfectly.Itsonlyactingdad is now 4 for 9 with earnings of $371,350. ' ' '