wrongway -- I see I\'m not the only one with a story like that.
In my senior year in high school, I took a girl on our first date to Green Mountain Racetrack. They had converted from horses to dogs by that time, and I had written a program for my computer class that I used to automate my handicapping, and the place was my home away from home in those days.
Anyway, my date didn\'t know a thing about dog racing. Six races into the card she hadn\'t said a single word about any dog in any race, then all of a sudden she leans over and points out a dog to me called Texas Cowboy in the program and says, \"I like that one.\"
Now normally, for obvious reasons, I would\'ve put a win bet on the thing even if I didn\'t like it, just in case. But this dog had never been ahead of a single dog at any point of any race in any of his PP\'s. 99-1 on the board.
You know the rest. The dog breaks like a shot out of the box, opens up five in the blink of an eye, airs by ten lengths and pays $270 to win.
Incredibly, she still went to the senior prom with me after that.
