TX woman's $18 Pick 5 play at Retama returns $1.25 mil

[Benny]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/texas-w...003649507.html

[richard burch]

Is she single? Maybe she should have her own radio show.

[Merlinsky]

https://www.wthr.com/article/texas-w...nto-12-million

That lady looks calmer than I would've been.

[declansharbor]

Honestly, it’s stories like this that will attract people TO the sport’s wagering side. We just have to find a way to keep them here.

No BS, between FB & Instagram I was tagged in this story (or this story was posted on my page) a total of 6 different times. Every single person to tag me is a non-player outside of the big days but upon hearing this story they want to throw their hat into the ring next year more than the $20 per horse and pull numbers out of a hat.

I’m doing my best to cultivate a new wave of players. My one buddy’s FIL even wants to buy me out next Saturday so that I can teach him a few different wagers that he heard I had won on this weekend. The sport so desperately needs the new blood before all the dinosaurs die off. I’m looking forward to doing my part in bringing in fresh fish for us to peck away at in the exotic pools!

[cal828]

I'd like to know, if she is really a handicapper or did she just play some random numbers? Seems like I read about some guy back when Giacomo won the derby winning some god awful amount of money on a superfecta at a racetrack where you could bet a quick pick ticket on a race similar to a quick pick for a lottery. Some people are like that. They don't want to have to think about anything. My wife was like that. She loved to play slot machines because there was no thought that went in to it. Her approach to racing was "which horse does Todd Pletcher train? I want an exacta with that one." She once won a $500+ exacta that way the year that Danza won the Arkansas Derby. I studied the damn race for hours and I think my horses finished last and next to last.

[declansharbor]

Originally Posted by cal828

I'd like to know, if she is really a handicapper or did she just play some random numbers? Seems like I read about some guy back when Giacomo won the derby winning some god awful amount of money on a superfecta at a racetrack where you could bet a quick pick ticket on a race similar to a quick pick for a lottery. Some people are like that. They don't want to have to think about anything. My wife was like that. She loved to play slot machines because there was no thought that went in to it.

I’d love to know how she came up with Funny Duck on a slim ticket. Didn’t the horse get trounced once he races against winners in Transylvania Stakes (I think). That result boggled my mind, but it seems like there’s ALWAYS one head scratcher on big days ala Bar of Gold

[cal828]

Originally Posted by declansharbor

I’d love to know how she came up with Funny Duck on a slim ticket. Didn’t the horse get trounced once he races against winners in Transylvania Stakes (I think). That result boggled my mind, but it seems like there’s ALWAYS one head scratcher on big days ala Bar of Gold

My wife would have said you put too much thought into it. Funny Duck perfectly logical for a racetrack that looked like a lake.

[Seattleallstar]

Originally Posted by cal828

I'd like to know, if she is really a handicapper or did she just play some random numbers? Seems like I read about some guy back when Giacomo won the derby winning some god awful amount of money on a superfecta at a racetrack where you could bet a quick pick ticket on a race similar to a quick pick for a lottery. Some people are like that. They don't want to have to think about anything. My wife was like that. She loved to play slot machines because there was no thought that went in to it. Her approach to racing was "which horse does Todd Pletcher train? I want an exacta with that one." She once won a $500+ exacta that way the year that Danza won the Arkansas Derby. I studied the damn race for hours and I think my horses finished last and next to last.

Gotta go with she probably played random numbers, handicapping i went damn near 9 deep in that race and didnt hit the board..lol

Handicapping there was no way he would of even been close with this bunch, here are the only reasons to have that horse

The name Funny Duck itself
the #4
connections, Calumet, Arnold, Hernadez as jockey
going all

anyways congrats to her cant hate on that, she put her money in and hit the lottery

[Alabama Stakes]

What did Funny Duck say to the hooker ?




















Put it on my bill

[cal828]

Originally Posted by Seattleallstar

Gotta go with she probably played random numbers, handicapping i went damn near 9 deep in that race and didnt hit the board..lol

Handicapping there was no way he would of even been close with this bunch, here are the only reasons to have that horse

The name Funny Duck itself
the #4
connections, Calumet, Arnold, Hernadez as jockey
going all

anyways congrats to her cant hate on that, she put her money in and hit the lottery

There might have been a logical reason and that is if she knew pedigrees really well and realized that the horse had a really good pedigree for a wet track which sometimes works and sometimes not, but I agree with you, I think she probably just used random numbers.