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03-05-2007, 08:24 PM
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Closest you have come to the big score...
What is the closest everyone has came to hitting a big bet, betting horses ?
I came very close to having a huge pick 4 on this past years breeders cup, i had all in the mile, with round pond and pine island "rip", Belive it or not i had red rocks singled in the turf, and then the classic the biggest mistake of my life i went bernardini and perfect drift. now the thing about this bet is i played it for $4 dollers, it was a $4 pick 4 wheel so even with bernardini it would have been a pretty huge score. it was hard to swallow not using invasor and bernardini it bothered me for 2 weeks, if i went invasor for $4 it would have been huge, i dont remember exactly but i think the pick 4 paid $80,000, and i would have recived that 2 times. 
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03-05-2007, 08:34 PM
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What are the parameters of a " big score "?
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03-05-2007, 08:37 PM
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i dont know, my biggest ever has been $4,000... which im sure for some ppl is not that big i guess i'd say anything over $10,000
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03-05-2007, 08:40 PM
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My friend and I tried to beat English Channel too.. Wrong horse though..We went 7 deep in the mile ,4 deep in f&m, 4 deep (damn red rocks) ,and two deep in the classic.( berny and invasor)..talk about a rush, up until red rocks i thought we had a great shot.. Esp after MA(24-1) and RP(13-1) came home ... I was scared that EC was gonna get us, not RR...The absolute closest I've been, i hope to eclipse that loss this year...
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03-05-2007, 08:41 PM
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still to this day i dont know why i put perfect drift on the ticket, i let my heart get in the way i always have loved him and i just threw him in kinda hoping he could run the race of his life and win, but if i remember correctly he was the longest shot in the race at post time
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03-05-2007, 08:41 PM
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I was alive to three horses for the whole pool in the Aqueduct Pick-6 going into the last leg a few weeks ago ( the day Summer Doldrums won ) for over $56K with each horse. Finished second and third unfortunately.
I'm not going to get into every five figure hit I've had but I have had two Pick-6s that paid well over $100K ( $141K and $156K ). I imagine more than a few here have had substantial hits.
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03-05-2007, 08:42 PM
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it sucked for me, when i cought those first 2 i was happy but still thought i had no chance because i had red rocks singled but when he won, i was almost counting my money thinking they couldnt beat bernardini and that if they did it might be perfect drift finally getting that big win
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03-05-2007, 08:44 PM
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03-05-2007, 08:44 PM
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I had that late Pick-3 BC day for a few bucks.
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03-05-2007, 08:44 PM
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They say in the music business, "if you ain't got a hit, you ain't got $h!t." That's probably true. I figure the same goes when wagering on horses, if you ain't got the winner on your ticket, darlin', you ain't got $h!t. I don't care how good your choices were on the rest of your ticket. It don't matter. I repeat, it just don't. Not all the IFs on Earth are gonna change that. In other words, IF A FROG HAD WINGS HE WOULDN'T BUMP HIS @$$ SO MUCH! The "I was close losers" horseplayers have ripped, could wrap around this Earth, end to end, a blue million times, and they'd still simply be LOSERS. You don't want to dwell on those, they bring about mental illness.
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03-05-2007, 08:45 PM
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Breeders Cup, 2 years ago. 3 live in the last leg of the pick 4 (Classic), the winner (whose name escapes me), paid $18,000, and 2 others, including the Austrailian horse which was paying 170,000 (I believe he finished 2nd to last).
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03-05-2007, 08:45 PM
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Mine's $4000 too.........
on a $1 pick 3 at Oaklawn in 2006! What a thrill!
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03-05-2007, 08:46 PM
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i usually just bet $2 to show on the M/L favorite, but this one time at Hawthorne, this 2/1 ml favorite floated all the way up to 4/1. i got so excited that i bet $3 to show.....and then he ran 4th.
i cried for three days.
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03-05-2007, 08:48 PM
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03-05-2007, 08:51 PM
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Try Volponi on top of Medags and simply needing the fraud Hawk Wing to break into the Superfecta for 50k.
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03-05-2007, 08:52 PM
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it can be a cruel game can't it?
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03-05-2007, 08:53 PM
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03-05-2007, 08:53 PM
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Not much these days....
Oaklawn is of course on HRTV, and of course i have Direct TV, and am stuck with TVG! Still, I've seen some exciting races at Oaklawn over the past few years, and I do enjoy that track.
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03-05-2007, 08:57 PM
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