One Year Ago

[justindew]

It was Travers Day 2006. I was at the MGM Grand in Vegas with a group of 12 friends for a bachelor party. On the day before the Travers I had a great day playing horses, and the folks in charge of the racebook agreed to let me use one of the skyboxes the next day. Long story short, I got all of my friends fired up about playing the Travers card Pick 6. So we all spent Travers Day in the skybox drinking beer and betting horses, and I put together a Pick 6 ticket that I felt would give the group a shot at a big payday.

I put together a $720 ticket, and ended up covering half of the bet myself. We hit 6 of 6......but lost money. I don't remmebr the exact numbers, but I think 6 of 6 paid something like $560, and then we had 5 of 6 something like 13 or 14 times. I cashed the ticket for around $707, for a loss of $13.

Yes, it was a banner day in my handicapping career. If only I had singled Henny Hughes instead of tossing in Songster and Mach Ride.......