Survivor In A Nine Race Contest
While waiting for a phone call to be returned I entered a horse racing handicapping contest. For $5.75 you had a chance to win some money if your picks kept hitting the board finishing 1st, 2nd, or 3rd at Keeneland Race Track in Lexington, Kentucky. I have entered contests like this often. I have won several of these contests. It fits my handicapping style and doesn't require you to pick long shots. Just keep plugging along.
At times it is a fools errand. Your choice runs out of the money in the first race and you are sent to the showers or back to the barn. Sometimes the contest allows to have more than one entry and sometimes you can't change you picks once you have submitted them. More entries does not always win more often, success is based the quality of your handicapping, the size of the fields, and the number of entries in the contest and in my experience the quality of the races being.
On Wednesday I had what might be called some intermittent reinforcement when it came to betting on horse racing. I had two winning tickets on the horse racing contest I entered. I was excited and entertained as the races clicked off and I was still alive. The 9th and final race was at the Big A and I picked a finisher who came from off the pace to finish 3rd and complete my very good day.
It doesn't always go this way.
At times it is a fools errand. Your choice runs out of the money in the first race and you are sent to the showers or back to the barn. Sometimes the contest allows to have more than one entry and sometimes you can't change you picks once you have submitted them. More entries does not always win more often, success is based the quality of your handicapping, the size of the fields, and the number of entries in the contest and in my experience the quality of the races being.
On Wednesday I had what might be called some intermittent reinforcement when it came to betting on horse racing. I had two winning tickets on the horse racing contest I entered. I was excited and entertained as the races clicked off and I was still alive. The 9th and final race was at the Big A and I picked a finisher who came from off the pace to finish 3rd and complete my very good day.
It doesn't always go this way.
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