It was a break even day at Santa Anita Park on Saturday. The first two races started out okay and then I went on a four race losing streak before turning it around towards the end of the day.
I've switched my betting habits to make it more conservative. For a couple days at Santa Anita earlier this year, I started doing bets on daily doubles, which was an unmitigated failure. Of course, I'm still betting the exactas and didn't win any of them. If I dropped the exactas, I would have ended up pretty well on this day at the track.
The six race was a crazy one. The horses immediately banged into each other at the start. Within a short distance, #1 veered into #2 who then veered into #3. And #5 took the blunt of it and the jockey, Valdivia, was tossed. Since Valdivia raced the next day, he survived just fine, which makes this race somewhat amusing. Horse #5 (Oh Brother Go) kept on racing. None of the jockeys wanted to pass the horse. As they came down the final stretch, folks either started to cheer or laugh as #5 continued to take the lead and eventually "won" the race. I'm sure this is one race where handicappers need to just toss out of the books.
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