Re: Questions about Figures (482 Views)
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SoCalMan2 (IP Logged)
Date: April 25, 2005 10:20AM
Whatever year it was, there was a group of us sitting in the Sports Palace at Laurel one Breeder's Cup Day. About 10 minutes before the Classic, one of the guy's wife calls (he was the only guy with a cell phone which were not as widespread then) and begs him to bet Arcangues because she loves Jerry Bailey. He says no way, the horse has no chance and he is not going to throw away good money. For the next 10 minutes, we are hooting and hollering about her pick and complaining to ourselves that the field looked so weak that it was hard to figure out who would be there (but we were sure it would not be Arcangues). In retrospect, it was obvious that it was it was a good race to look for an unknown. I learned a good lesson that day (which I have applied a lot regarding the relative strength of a field when evaluating an unknown), but I think my friend may have had a bit of a rougher lesson. (I just heard a lot of "yes's and 'uh huh's when the inevitable call came in).