Donnaj wrote:Cali, how lucky can one get?
And by default I had an acceptable day at the race track.
I picked one race to wager, the 5th at Golden Gate. I have access to race replays and watched the last two races of every horse in the field of 3 year olds. At least those that had raced before. There were a couple first time starters.
Jeff Gordon was in the lead at Phoenix, my guy A.J. Allmendinger was running well, and The Tribe still had the lead across the mountains from the NASCAR track over in Goodyear.
I raced to the OTB and tossed down my bet and headed home to see Gordon win the race and for Allmendinger to get a Top Ten.
I checked the results charts for Golden Gate Fields online, and noticed my selected horses did not both finish in the top 3 as I needed them to be a winner. But then I checked to see where the heck one of my horses finished, and it turned out he did not. For some reason he was a scratch in the last five minutes from post parade to gate.
So all of my tickets were "winners." I drove back to the OTB and got all my $$ back on a bet that would not have been a winner anyhow because the horse who did run finished out of the money.
I was happy to take it.