To All, Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukkah and Kwanza. I may be scarce the next couple of days, so I wanted to get that in.
I went to the track nearly all day yesterday, and I was miserable for nearly 8 hours. I took my Mother and after a couple of hours she asked, "do you think we're going to win anything today?" I figured when we went from simulcast to live, my handicapping would pick up. In the first nine races, I had 7 losers and two kiss your sister wins. I was really Bah Humbugging. But, on the last race, I spotted one of those anomalies that handicappers always look for:
The top jock was staying late to ride a really crappy looking horse in a low purse maiden race. On Xmas weekend? Smelled fishy to me. He went off at 25 to one and I put him in a quinella. He won by about 10 lengths and, by a nose hair, second place went to a nice 6 to one horse I had on my ticket. Whew! Made up all the losses plus a Whataburger on the way home. And now I'm full of "ho, ho, ho."
Best to all. |
