So it's on to the Grunder bar with the entire crew. I got to admit that things just spiral out of control. I'm bitter with not cashing a real ticket (even money in the first leg of my own show parlay doesn't count
) in 2 days and to be honest can't even stand the thought of looking at the Form. We all kick in money for a show parlay. Also Sheets caps a late pick 4 at Santa Anita and I buy 25% of his ticket just to have some action. There are so many tracks going, that I have no idea where/who we are live to in the show parlay. It's just complete chaos, everytime I look up I see BT yelling at every TV in the place. In one race his horse gets passed in the stretch and he's yelling at the top of his lungs for the horse to Re-Buff Re-Buff. Everyone just stopped and looked, then started laughing, like I said the kid is a star. I'm hearing things from BT, like "he's bred for snow". It really was an absolute blur. I think we hit one or two races in the show parlay. Now keep in mind GPK is holding the ticket. Then Sheets (out of all people) utters the three magic words that probably gave GPK some movement. English Channel Firster. The next thing I know we are alive to a 5-1 English Channel firster at Turfway in a blizzard. To make things even more comical, there's a 3/5 Ramsey horse in the race. Guess what, Ramsey wins by about 10 (there's a f.ucking suprise
) and the EC firster finishes up the track. I guess they are very low percentage on frozen polytrack during a blizzard........
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I blame Sheets for that, he put it out there and obviously the president of the EC fan club couldn't pass up that betting opportunity. Obviously the group almost turned into an angry mob again, but we really are the ones to blame. We had a 17 year old looking at the form or sheets from his phone (Don't ask me how he gets this stuff, really child services should be knocking any day know) and the head of the lolly-pop guild punching the tickets. Really what kind of chance did we have? Of course, right after Rosario gives us a wonderful ride, while never looking like a winner with our single at Santa Anita at 4/5. At some point I see Grunder there (shocker) taking pictures with GPK. It's so chaotic that the douche guy mentioned in previous posts left the area and was watching races in another part of the track. I guess he couldn't take it. But the drinks were flowing and everyone was having a ball. It was almost time for Derby Lane.
To be continue...............