TX woman's $18 Pick 5 play at Retama returns $1.25 mil
 

Is she single? Maybe she should have her own radio show. :)

Woman turns $18 KY Derby bet into $1.2 mil
 

https://www.wthr.com/article/texas-w...nto-12-million

That lady looks calmer than I would've been.

Honestly, it’s stories like this that will attract people TO the sport’s wagering side. We just have to find a way to keep them here.

No BS, between FB & Instagram I was tagged in this story (or this story was posted on my page) a total of 6 different times. Every single person to tag me is a non-player outside of the big days but upon hearing this story they want to throw their hat into the ring next year more than the $20 per horse and pull numbers out of a hat.

I’m doing my best to cultivate a new wave of players. My one buddy’s FIL even wants to buy me out next Saturday so that I can teach him a few different wagers that he heard I had won on this weekend. The sport so desperately needs the new blood before all the dinosaurs die off. I’m looking forward to doing my part in bringing in fresh fish for us to peck away at in the exotic pools!

I'd like to know, if she is really a handicapper or did she just play some random numbers? Seems like I read about some guy back when Giacomo won the derby winning some god awful amount of money on a superfecta at a racetrack where you could bet a quick pick ticket on a race similar to a quick pick for a lottery. Some people are like that. They don't want to have to think about anything. My wife was like that. She loved to play slot machines because there was no thought that went in to it. Her approach to racing was "which horse does Todd Pletcher train? I want an exacta with that one." She once won a $500+ exacta that way the year that Danza won the Arkansas Derby. I studied the damn race for hours and I think my horses finished last and next to last.

I’d love to know how she came up with Funny Duck on a slim ticket. Didn’t the horse get trounced once he races against winners in Transylvania Stakes (I think). That result boggled my mind, but it seems like there’s ALWAYS one head scratcher on big days ala Bar of Gold

My wife would have said you put too much thought into it. Funny Duck perfectly logical for a racetrack that looked like a lake.:D

Actually, I'm a little surprised that the first three slots of the derby were so chalky. On a wet track, you would have thought that maybe a real longshot might have run second or third. I played Justify over 15 of them hoping to hit some outrageous longshot like Instilled Regard, but no luck this year.

I don't like math. The pool was $2,923,064....payout 1$ was $1,241,654...Does anyone know how many winners there were?

With $2.9 million bet, After takeout it looks like 4 winners on fifty cent tickets. I wonder how much the NYRA bets pick 5 handled ....maybe drop a couple of zeros

Gotta go with she probably played random numbers, handicapping i went damn near 9 deep in that race and didnt hit the board..lol

Handicapping there was no way he would of even been close with this bunch, here are the only reasons to have that horse

The name Funny Duck itself
the #4
connections, Calumet, Arnold, Hernadez as jockey
going all

anyways congrats to her cant hate on that, she put her money in and hit the lottery

What did Funny Duck say to the hooker ?




















Put it on my bill

There might have been a logical reason and that is if she knew pedigrees really well and realized that the horse had a really good pedigree for a wet track which sometimes works and sometimes not, but I agree with you, I think she probably just used random numbers.

Maybe TV or someone who has a radio show or in the racing industry should reach out to her. Love to know how She selected and She could have promotional abilities for the sport.


GET HER ON STEVE!:)

Working on it through the Retama people.. She was a bit shy Saturday asking that her name be withheld, but seems like she's become more accessible. Her name is Margaret Reid and though she's not a serious player, she did construct the ticket off the PP's.

Seems like I can recall another time that a person or persons won a huge payoff like that and it wasn't just picking random numbers. My memory doesn't work so good anymore and sometimes I can't remember what I did last week, but it seems like it was a guy or a couple of guys from South Dakota that won the pick 6 on Breeder's Cup Day with a small ticket. As I recall it was when Richard Mandella won 3 or 4 races that day including the Classic with Pleasantly Perfect. So I guess as improbable as it seems that someone could handicap it, it's not impossible. However, all that may just be a false memory on my part.

Four winners at $.50 each.

Way to go!. You already gave us some pertinent information. Hope she goes on the air with you. As a champion of the sport, You deserve the first interview.:)

Send her a Justify horse hat and a shirt.

As I remember the story, this was from the 93 breeders cup at Santa Anita, the other time that Mandella had four wins. One of the two tickets that hit the national pick-7 had played numbers 1 and 11 in the penultimate race, the BC turf. He then accidentally punched 1 and 11 for the classic, but decided to just keep the ticket as played for a $16 total. Arcangues was #11 in the classic so he wound up winning $1.6 million by accident.

http://www.drf.com/news/pick-6-winner-faces

Here it is. The year was 2003 and it was an $8 bet for $2.7 million. Ticket had 4 singles. It was a couple of guys from South Dakota. I think it occurred the next year or so after some college buddies tried to scam the Pick 6 and ended up going to jail, I think. I can't remember all the details of that one, but I'm sure a lot of people will remember that occurred which made a lot of people skeptical that these two guys could have won legitimately with such a small ticket.