To Mall,

You're close.

My biggest score was in 1992, documented in "Beyer on Speed"

Played a $168 ticket with three singles, one wheel and took the entire pool.

Hit the P6 six or seven more times in the same year.

Cynics and other morons will say dumb luck.
I know I am a damn good handicapper and observer, one of the best around. There are a few who are better, and a few who are better at money management, but my lifetime profit, (notwithstanding the cheating , scamming and incompetant and or crooked stewards and the discovery that Yes, the tote system can be rigged) remains intact.

Have had many break even years since '92, but I'm not in this game to break even or win 2-10%.

The man who taught me how to handicap was a federal investigator specializing in race fixing and the first thing he told me was "Kid, better find another game. Where there is a will, there is a way." I finally woke up this summer when a post time payoff was around $60 and all I got back was $24, not to mention numerous "impossible" results that ruined several of my pick 6 plays.
The tote system fixing is not limited to multiple race wagers, friends. With inside info, any hacker can fix an exacta or trifecta, or cash a longshot winner.
As they say in poker, "Read em and weep".
MO