Santa Anita - Friday 01/23 - Early Pick 4

[thunderdan09]

Originally Posted by Scav

?? Ok, so because there are good maidens, that means to put in $250 on a $1 ticket, that regularly pays between $80 and $140?

If the field sizes were 10x10x9x12 and highly contested, say it is first weekend at Saratoga, well then I can see $250 into a sequence like that, but $250 into a Friday at Santa Anita with 6x6x10x6, horrible mismanagement.

Selecting a horse and how you structure your tickets are EQUALLY important. Any horse player that has been around for at least one year has heard the saying "All I do is pick winners and I have nothing to show for it because I can't structure". That ticket is TERRIBLY inefficient.

You will probably go and hit that ticket today for $2500 and that would be great BUT in the long run, be prepared to get torched with that method, and I can't wait to hear "I spent $250 and I got back $80"

I understand your viewpoint on it and with all the scratches today it didn't matter.

I just couldn't definitively toss any of the horses I left in those short fields. I think in the long run spending $240 on a 6x6x10x6 field would be detrimental to a bank roll, I have never posted a ticket that high on this site over the past couple months. I just thought they were highly contested fields. Probably should have just bet the #1 horse I liked in the first and skipped the wager all together. I ended up spending $72 and making a profit of $36.

Sorry for sounding like an ass yesterday. Had a rough day.