I have a question for multi-race bettors out there regarding bankroll management. I am curious to know your thoughts on how you approach situations like the following. Assume for this exercise that for the given race card, you have no particularly strong opinons you want to press and that there are not any especially troublesome races you want to avoid. If you have opinions on those situations, I would love to hear that as well, but I suspect in those instances the answers would revolve around trying to leverage your strong opinions and then trying to avoid the troublesome races.

This situation comes up on those big race days and now it seems that Saratoga is set on offering multiple P5 and P4 wagering opportunities each day. It also comes during the middle of the week for P5 bettors at tracks that have both an early and late P5 but have less than 10 races where the P5’s have common races. It was especially prevalent now at Saratoga, given they seem to have a P5 starting pretty much even odd race except when the P6 needs to start.

My question is basically this - if you are still live on a P5 ticket do you start another multi-race sequence?

For instance, let’s say you bet the early P5 at Saratoga today and hit the first winner, would you roll the same horses into a P4, our use different horses in some combination, or just pass on that wager assuming you have no new information or opinions?

Let’s say you now hit race 2, do you play the P5 starting in race 3 with the same horses you have in the last three legs of the P5 you started in the first race or perhaps throw in some different combinations or again, skip the bet and be satisfied with potentially hitting the first P5 if you connect on the last couple of races?

Any thoughts or input would be much appreciated…