ROI Results 3/2 @ Gulfstream

[RUFFIAN]

Rq
Memory Is Not My Strong Suit

Reason Not Playing Pounce
Was Not The Odds

Had Decided To Maybe Not Use
Any Stakes Races That Day

My Feline Heart Filled With Regret 😿
Hindsight Sure Is 20/20

[JolyB]

It's great to see a card on which so many of our players were able to cash tickets. I hope that you all had some real $$ on your picks. Congrats especially to both Cal and Cruz for having the perspicacity to pounce on Pounce in the Herecomesthebride. While she didn't really look like a 20-1 shot, it was an incredibly astute play to single her on top of a tri or play a straight win. Well done to both of you.

RQ, that was a very generous exacta price you were able to get in the Honey Fox. Thank you also for scoring and for you usual enjoyable commentary.

[cal828]

Every week it seems like a daunting task to come up with a decent play, but I guess you just have to have faith and fire away and sometimes good things happen. If I had thought about it very much, I might have talked myself out of the play on Pounce and I imagine that some folks did because of the outside post and going up in class, but she looked like a standout to me. At least on paper and she proved that sometimes ability means more than class. It was a lucky play for sure and I probably won’t hit another like it for quite a while. Anyway, thanks for the kind words to everyone that made them.

[cal828]

Joly, your use of the word "perspicacity" made me laugh. It's not a word you see every day and probably one that I would avoid because I know I couldn't say it without tripping over my tongue. Seems like it belongs in the old tongue twister category along with "Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers."

[JolyB]

Originally Posted by cal828

Joly, your use of the word "perspicacity" made me laugh. It's not a word you see every day and probably one that I would avoid because I know I couldn't say it without tripping over my tongue. Seems like it belongs in the old tongue twister category along with "Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers."

Cal, I guess that I have a lot of similarly obscure words clunking around the back of my head. The product of years of reading and more than a little writing. Sometimes they just seep out. Glad to have provided amusement.

In a much earlier phase of my life, I was actively involved in sports car rallies, usually as a contestant but occasionally as the course organizer. I rallymastered one event for the New England Region of SCCA in 1974 or so that required the contestants to very carefully apply the instructions to properly follow the course, and created situations in which the failure to do so would lead to timing errors or off course excursions. The event was called "Perspicacity."

[RUFFIAN]

MY PURRRSONAL ADAPTATION OF PERSNICKETY = PURRRRSNICKETY

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