Best tip was from my high school baseball coach about a FIXED race at Atlantic City...he even wrote me a pass to miss school to place his bets there. Made $$$
Worst tip was 2 years later while I was in college. Same coach calls me about a fixed race at Yonkers. 5 horse field. 3 crooked drivers (Herve Fillion & Carmine Abbatello aboard HY Bernadette) try to wire the field on long shots and block the 2 remaining guys from winning. Good guys smelled the fix and they wired the field. They were whipping each others horses the whole race and the Yonkers stewards knew something was up...no replay ever showed to crowd...no finish photo. Thats the race the fans lit garbage cans on fire and tossed them on the track. Lost THOUSANDS and stayed away from horse racing for over 30 years.
In hindsight, maybe that worst tip was a good tip,because I didn't rejoin racing until I became an owner, never gambled for over 25-30 years on racing.
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