Closest you have come to the big score...

[blackthroatedwind]

Look, if somebody has a betting strategy and it ACTUALLY works for them, then who am I, or anyone, to criticize them. However, considering the dramatic difference in what one would make over the long term with a moderately intelligent exacta back-up I do not believe that place bets are the more profitable way to go.

Then there is the extreme horsplayer....Andy Beyer...who could be alive in the last leg of the Pick-6 with three horses and box them in exactas and tris.