Re: Chuckles' go to horse (443 Views)
Posted by:
Bally Ache (IP Logged)
Date: May 17, 2007 10:17AM
I don't think even Secretariat could have beaten Fager at seven furlongs.
Here's a sucker bet I won on him from a horseplayer friend of mine: I think it was the Vosburgh where, for some reason,there were seven or eight entered against him. I guess the others were running for second or third money. Fager figured to be about 2/5.
I told my friend I would make an even money bet with him. I would take Fager and he could have the rest of the field. To my surprise he went for it. Even after the race (which Fager won) my friend was insisting that he had made a good bet, until I pointed out to him that he had just given me even money on a natural 2/5 shot. If Fager lost it made no difference to me which of the other hroses beat him.