Bally, to your credit you boxed. If he had gotten second I would have been beat. My eternal flaw is getting cute when winnowing down combinations. I\'ve lost some big pots that way. If he hadn\'t of taken it to Daaher maybe he moves up, maybe Daaher holds on, but then I don\'t think it was Daahers day. That Cigar Mile looked to be a big effort and the weight and turns had to be factored.
Apparently, you and I weren\'t the only ones that thought the Kid was exotics candy. Here\'s what T-Graph\'s analyst said:
\"Favored Daaher looks like most likely winner. Spring At Last, Kiss the Kid and Brass
Hat are the ones to use underneath. Tri and Super Key—#s-- 4 Over 2, 7, 8. B\"
You have to admit that was some very serious winnowing by the TGraph Staff too. A very professional bet. Especially not going \"ALL\' with the Superfecta Slot. They just got a little off track in keying the Career Top horse and leaving out A.P.Arrow. The latter being the most quizzical to me, but you have to respect that they offered a scalpel bet.
I thought the Clark was scored very, very fast by T-Graph, if someone lost that race because they bet A.P.Arrow or Brass Hat on Top it may have been due to how fast the Clark \"came in\".
I also thought the Goldolphin Mile was overlooked both in figure and in quality. That was the key race. The issue was extrapolating it to 9 poles. On TFigs I may not have keyed Spring at Last. He looks marginally less appealing. However, I thought more of his losing efforts in California and there was a lot more to my bet than Figure consideration.
Ache Wrote:
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> I find myself in the unusual (and unenviable)
> position of being on the same side of an issue as
> Chuckles. If you can\'t see that the horse had no
> business being 45-1 even AFTER the race, may God
> have mercy on your souls.
>
> Unfortunately, I had him boxed with A.P. Arrow and
> the chalk, so I got nothing out of it. That\'s
> what makes this game so tough, you don\'t get
> anything for spotting a live, overlaid longshot,
> you still have to hook him up right. But he was a
> serious overlay and I\'m not just saying that after
> the race.