Re: Happy Opening Day (885 Views)
Posted by:
moosepalm (IP Logged)
Date: July 23, 2016 09:17AM
FrankD. Wrote:
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> I'm really wondering what I'm doing wrong in life?
> We got rear ended on the way to the Belmont. My
> front wheel falls off on opening day, I tipped the
> tow driver generously, put my traditional opening
> amount in the veterans bucket outside the gate and
> got back ZERO from the karma Gods!!!!
>
> Frank D.
Sorry to hear about your travails, Frank, but payoffs at the karmic window are not guaranteed in time nor currency. However, since most horseplayers eschew the wisdom of the east (e.g. the cornerstone of Zen teaching is "no expectations"), perhaps some of these nuggets of wisdom from various mystics and masters of the backside might provide some solace:
"A bookie is just a pickpocket who lets you use your own hands." - Henry Morgan
"Any money I put on a horse is a sort of insurance policy to prevent it from winning," - Frank Richardson
"Fortunately my wife is understanding. When I come home from the races, she never asks questions if I tell her I just ate a $380 hot dog." - Tim Conway
"Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do." - Raymond Nash
"In betting on horses there are two elements that are never lacking -- hope as hope and an incomplete recollection of the past." - Edward V. Lucas
"No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse." - Richard Sasuly
"The horse I bet on came in so late it had to tiptoe to the barn not to wake the other horses." - Anonymous
Better luck, Frank. Thirty-nine racing days left to try to cash that karmic I.O.U.
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