After staying alive through 4 legs of my pick 5 play yesterday, I made the cardinal mistake of looking at the will pays before the final leg. That's as bad as counting your chips at the poker table and can incur the wrath of the racing gods. Sure enough, of my picks Reagan's Wit was a late scratch, Tiztastic didn't run a step and Freedom's Not Free lead to the 1/16th pole and then threw out an anchor. The winner. Minaret Station, was an overlaid 15-1 in the ML and went off at 5-2 or so, logical for the scratched down field. I actually played him in a Twin Spires pick 6 contest sequence but didn't have room on the ROI ticket. Perhaps in hindsight I went too deep in the Foster and should have taken a stronger stand, but I was in too much of a muddle in that race to leave any contender out. Still learning this game. All of the pick 5 will pays seemed to me to be extremely generous for a sequence that only included logical contenders.
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06-29-2025, 01:38 PM
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