Mall,

Thanks for the positive comments. I have definitely made mistakes and stretched for tris when the exacta was fine (or sometimes better). Still evolving on this...

There are some incredible payoffs on pick threes, and I don't think you could help but notice how good some of those pick fours are, especially when they run concurrently like they do in NY. I see the pick three with favorites or second choices paying like $100 and the pick four, with the second choice from the 7th race, will pay like $380. Very tempting, but...

I would have to say that these "multi-race" bets are my least productive bets, by far, and I know people who do almost nothing but. I've thrown them out of my repetoire almost entirely. In my experience, these bets take more TIME to get right, and there were just too many ocassions that I spent so much time figuring out a P3 or P4 ticket that I blew a perfectly good straight win shot.

The "Now-I'm-Going-To-Kill-Myself" factor is very high with the pick three, and I need less of that...

HP