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Old 03-28-2008, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by SniperSB23
I doubt it happened that way. More than likely it was on an automatic telller machine. You punch in your ticket but don't log out, your horse breaks poor and you hit cancel. I'm sure people do it all the time and 99% of the time the pools close properly and it doesn't work. In this instance the pool stayed open long enough that the cancel worked.
I think most tracks and OTBs have done away with the 5 second window, which I believe was time meant for tellers to cancel a last second mistake.

I bet from home now - so I don't know for sure.
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