Almost very lucky

[ArlJim78]

okay, had to share this story from my wagering day yesterday.

Tampa fifth race, its about 5min to post so I decide to play a super. I had earlier in the day ranked the fields for every race on separate sheets of paper. The mistake I made was that I picked up the paper with my sixth race rankings and played them on the fifth race. I didn't notice until Grunder starts calling out names of horses. WHAT? I realize my mistake immediately.

So naturally I start rooting for my numbers. who cares what horses they are , right?

Well my key horse was the 5, I needed the five to win. The 10 appears to be going gate to wire, although for awhile it looked like the 5 was going to make a run at him, by the time they were approaching the wire it was clear that it would come 10 -5. BUT HOLD ON! Nearing the wire the 10 gets freaked by a seagull and veers sharply, the rider bails out! The five inherits the win.

So I quickly start trying to find out the rest of the placings, I knew that some of the numbers I used were prominent but I just didn't care too much because I hadn't used the 10 anywhere. But with the 10 having taken himself off the board there is new hope. Could I actually be lucky enough to hit a super having bet the wrong race and getting help from a seagull??

The bottom line is the result was 5 - 1 - 7 -9 and it paid $7,276.80
I had 5 - 1 - 9 - 7 for 40 cents. How lucky would I have been to collect under those circumstances?

for further insult, the result of the sixth race was 8 - 3 - 9 - 5.
So my picks worked much better on the wrong race.