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05-13-2024, 06:42 PM
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Great plays and I think it also goes to show that you don't have to make your play all that complicated to get a great return.
  Now, if only I could remember that for the next contest. Course, I might also need to do some better handicapping. That might help!
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05-13-2024, 11:03 PM
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A few things on my mind that I want to share:
First, you may wonder how I can play every week while in Australia and New Zealand but then miss Derby weekend after returning home. The answer is that I played some tickets with a buddy of mine who lives in Maine and I also gave my older brother all my picks over the two days. This left me preoccupied when it was time to post picks here. (And post time came really early both days.) Second, it's bragging I know but it was the second biggest ticket I ever cashed. My buddy in Maine and I played a 50 cent Pick 4 on Derby Day starting with Race 6. It cost us $48 each to cover the $96 ticket. When Graham Motion's horse won the 9th race at 47-1, we hit the Pick 4. It came back $6,536! No federal tax is due - under the new laws passed a couple years ago you have to collect at 300-1 for every dollar spent on the winning ticket. Since I bet my half of the cost at NJBets and that turned out to be the winning ticket, I would have to have collected $48 x $300 or $14,400 before my bet would have been subject to federal wagering tax. The truth is that this kind of hit would have meant the world to me in my younger days. Nowadays not so much....but it was a lot of fun!
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05-14-2024, 05:50 AM
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That's a great story NJS, and congrats on your Derby Day hit. Somehow, they always feel just a little bit sweeter when those scores come on big race days and the adrenaline is flowing from the start.
While you told us such a hit would have meant even more to you in your younger days, I would suggest that if you go out to dinner with the winnings of that nice score, the steak will still have a little extra sizzle to it and the glass of wine will be a bit more mellow. Here's hoping you can replicate that feat on Preakness Day.
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05-14-2024, 06:11 AM
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Great post NJS. I've always thought a lot of good handicappers have crossed my path over the years at this forum and sometimes I'm proved right. I wish in my 50 years of capping I had a story like that to tell but I'm still waiting.
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"The more I learn about humans, the more I love horses"
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05-14-2024, 08:57 AM
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Like RQ, I don't have any stories to match or even come close to that, but I still like to hear them. I was a little puzzled by your last sentence about it not meaning quite as much now for you as it might have in younger days, but I just had to think about my own younger days of way less affluence than today to get what you are saying. 6k would have been way more than I made my first year out of college.
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