Your Most Memorable Winners....
 

Let's start up a fun thread. Who are your most memorable winning bets? For me it is:

Sarava - Belmont Stakes
Volponi - Breeder's Cup Classic
Giacomo - Kentucky Derby

Ghostzapper - BCC


$2 Pick Four (5-8-5-1) Paid $46,791.20 - had it for $1

Gulch-Play The King exacta.......Breeders Cup Sprint
Colonial Affair............Belmont Stakes
Invasor.........Breeders Cup Classic
Manila..........Breeders Cup Turf
Blame.........Breeders Cup Classic (:D)

Last Tycoon in 1986 Breeders Cup Turf Mile. Back then each track maintained a separate betting pool and while he went to post at over 36-1 at SA, Penn National betters completely ignored him at well over 90-1. I put my last $5 on him on a hunch and tried to talk my buddy into going in with me...he laughed...after the race, he cried!

This year, I basically gave out the trifecta for the Black-Eyed Susan with Keen Pauline winning at double-digit odds.

https://www.ladyandthetrack.com/news...an-stakes.html

No one really cared lol.

2003 Preakness Stakes, had a $500 win bet from Capital OTB ....... put it on that "gutsy gelding" of course! :D :$:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWncMnDunLE

Debonair Joe - Vernon O Underwood Stakes Hollywood Park 2002

Einstein - Gulfstream Park Handicap 2006

Plenty of Grace
Santa Anita
199?

50-1

I'm visiting LA from the east coast taking customers to the track for their first time. (my 2000+ time) and I'm making the mistake for 8 races to tell them who will win.

I'm embarrassed as h*ll and we make one last stab in the feature as I pick

Plenty of Grace to top a $1,250 five dollar exacta

Big fun

FREE REDBOARDING!!

I needed a 5-1 shot to complete a $500 DD in a 5k claimer and the former stakes winner Miracle Wood came through.
The tough beats stand out more for some reason.

Karakontie in last year's Breeder's Cup Mile which led to a six figure score.

Paul

Eternity Star 1991 Del Mar Derby at almost 40/1

Thirty Slews BC Sprint, getting something like 36/1 in the NYRA pool. Like an idiot, however, I bet one other horse to win in the race, and ran second with that one as well. I'm really a terrible bettor.

Dare and Go in the Pacific Classic, which was nice for me since I thought Cigar was going to win a Breeders Cup race off his maiden win, 6f on dirt, but I thought he was going to be much better on turf. I proceeded to bet him every start after that up until he left California.

The race that hooked me was a cheap claiming race. I saw the first two finishers of something like a 12k claiming race, Quip Star and Cachuma, go up to I think a 25k claiming race, I bet the exacta, which hit and paid about $350, thus thinking this game is ridiculously easy.

Anees - BC Juvy
Strike A Deal - 2010 Dixie Stakes at Pim (Ramon wires 'em at 14-1)


The most satisfying win was with:
Roanoke River Rain - Clm race on the turf at Pim in 2003...this horse won 3 races in his life, all of them a day or two before the Preakness. I finally caught on for the 3rd one at 15-1.

Anees?

How'd you hit that?

You must have known mandella was my favorite trainer and that I had a future book bet at a big price on the other mandella, whom ran second.

One I bet. One I didn't have to.

Gato Del Sol

Dancing In Silks

I remember Debonair Joe. Julie Krone for trainer Juan Pablo Silva.

Great Hit!

Here's one other.

Pick 4 at Santa Anita

ALL

A La Reine

ALL

Decarchy

$56,000

And one other.

Pick 6 Hollywood Park

Called the race.

Alive to two horses.

Flip the Penny 6/5 and Twin Fin 25-1

Final furlong only two that can win.

Noses apart final sixteenth.

At the wire. Twin Fin wins a whacker!

$117,000

BC pick 4 blame over zenyatta. Was alive to 3 horses none of which were big z. Nail biting photo.everyone at the otb dejected by the results but me. Paid like $3600. Think Dakota phone paid like $100 and was in the sequence as well.

Evaluating...... Fred hooper mare 45-1. Won by a c.h. At Saratoga
Girvanie.....2nd time starter. Eddie maple grabbed him on the turn when he realized what he had. 23-1. Shugga dooga ran second . Married the exacta
Timely Writer in the hopeful. Big score for a youngster.

The one that comes to mind first is Woodmans Luck, off the pace winner in the final at Hollywood Park. Capped a nice Pick 4 but it was, from what I remember, the first time I had a sincere emotional reaction to a horse race.

http://www.drf.com/news/hollywood-pa...cks-final-race