What would it take to change this rule....

[Holland Hacker]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

i'm not sure i understand the problem. on a dead heat you have 2 winners of 1 race. all multi-race tickets with either of those winners is alive to split whatever the pool is.

it doesn't matter if one was 4-5 and the other 30-1. those are win pool odds. they have nothing at all to do with how a multi-race pool is paid. 2 different animals.

on yesterdays deadheat at aqueduct, two pick 6 tickets were alive to yield bogey and one to blues street. everyone alive at the end had their payout reduced by the deadheat. instead of getting 1/2 the pool, the yield bogey bettors got 1/3. instead of all the pool the blues street bettor got 1/3.

that seems like the only fair result. i know if i had a live pick 6 ticket to yield bogey and they tried to pay me less than the 1/3 i had earned by giving more to someone else based on win pool odds, i'd be seeing a lawyer.

Why shouldn't the bettor who had the only live ticket on Blues Street Bettor get 1/2 of the pool as he was the only one alive to that horse. This ridculous rule cost him about $15K. I do not think that is fair.