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Re: several dinner trades in a row Track this movement <<<In the final race, he once again bets it all on the longshot to win. The horses take off from the starting line like a bullet and runs in the lead the entire time. In the home stretch, the horse suddenly begins running out of steam and finishes dead last. The man loses everything.>> The above actually happened to me. Many years ago, I was on vacation with my family in Maine. There was a state fair going on and it was next to a trotters track. I had never been to a live horse race and the kids were old enough to stay alone and put themselves to bed, so the wife and I went to the trotters. We just watched the first race to see what it was. The track was a short oval (maybe 1/4 mile) and each race was 3 times around the track in a counterclockwise direction. We sat on the start/finish line by accident. For the second race, just before the start, one horse had 50 to 1 odds. I bet 10 bucks on that horse (a grey one) to win. All the other horses were brown so it was easy to spot the grey one. The race started. When they were on the far side of the oval, the grey horse was close to the lead. When it first crossed the start/finish line, it was ahead by more than one length. At the end of the second lap the grey horse was ahead by about 5 lengths. I started to spend my 500 bucks in my mind. Now we're both on our feet cheering for the win. The grey horse rounded the final turn into the home stretch with a slight lead. Then the horse, jockey and cart went over a low fence into the infield. I wanted to kill that horse for costing me 500 bucks but it was already dead of a heart attack. That was my first and last bet on a horse race. A true story. |
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