Just got back from Hinsdale Race Track and I’m sitting in my motel room (the weather was bad so I’m moteling it tonight rather than camping).
Now I am wondering why things can never stay the same for very long. The deal is, I just get going real good handicapping a dog track hitting exactas and nice winners and the dogs get sick. Why can’t they keep the dogs from getting sick?
The problem is that you can’t always tell when a dog is sick until it runs and then its too late for the poor sods like me who have bet on it. I was doing great at Wheeling playing the top grade races and then all of a sudden started doing lousy. The dogs didn’t seem to be running true to form. The next thing I know a bunch of dogs are scratched because they are sick, so that explains it. So I switch to Palm Beach and I’m doing great and now they seem to be getting sick since there are so many scratches. So today I went back to handicapping Wheeling.
I stick to the better grade races most of the time though I have to admit that playing the dime supers in every race at Hinsdale is a hoot and I hit two of them today playing 4 dog boxes. I played 14 races at $2.40 each and collected $56 so my profit was $56 minus $33.60 or a whopping $22.40!!
Did you ever wonder what a whopping means? I do. What is a whopping? Sounds like something my mother used to threaten me with, “If you don’t settle down and go to sleep in there I’m going to give you a whopping!”
People shouldn’t be able to use words unless they are prepared to explain what the word means. A whopper is a big fish or a hamburger. What does a big fish or hamburger have to do with winning money at the track or getting your butt kicked because you won’t go to sleep?
I played all three AA races at Wheeling today and hit the exacta in each one and the winner as well, but I played two dogs in each race to win and wheeled two dogs in the exactas so I didn’t really make much. On the other hand, in two of the races my two dogs were the exacta so with a little better money management I should improve my R.O.I. But the point is that by playing the better races and being a good handicapper you can hit a lot of winners and exactas. One of the knocks against dog racing is that the horses are easier to handicap but that isn’t true. You just have to stick with the better grade races.
I could give a good lesson here on how to handicap the greyhounds, but quite frankly I don’t want to because that would take money out of my pocket. The pools are so small at the dogs that I can barely make a decent win bet without knocking the odds down so if I get more people betting on the same dogs I’ll really struggle to make a buck.
But you know me and my inquiring mind, I just have to know about this word whopping, so I will give one free lesson to anyone who really can tell me the definition of whopping and the origin of the word. The rest of you will just have to figure out the dog racing biz on your own. It only took me 20 years.
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