Breaking the Bank: Huge Helpings of Cash
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Breaking the Bank - featuring data courtesy of Equibase - highlights the biggest scores of the past week in racing. (Photo by Penelope P. Miller/America's Best Racing)
For one lucky handicapper, a Pick 6 Jackpot at Golden Gate Fields paid for a festive Thanksgiving celebration complete with a giant-sized turkey stuffed with gold bars.
Lobster, caviar and a case of Dom Perignon could have been added to menu as well as the holder of a single winning ticket on the Nov. 21 Pick 6 Jackpot turned a 20-cent wager into a $149,231.76 payday.
Fueled by a carryover of $101,423, the huge payoff was sent in motion when that savvy handicapper somehow kept his ticket alive through the first two races that saw one likely winner in Giant Warrior ($9.20) and one utterly improbable longshot in Summer Story ($115.20).
The sequence continued with Claudia Mae ($10.40), Ship Mast ($21.80) and then the favored Matty’s Tribal ($6.20) before 4-1 shot Omdurman ($10.60) turned that one winning ticket into a payoff that busted open the bank.
Click here for Equibase charts for Nov. 21 at Golden Gate
Remington Park also served up a huge helping of cash as the Pick 4 on Nov. 19 returned a ritzy $39,227.25 for a 50-cent wager.
The winning combination was certainly challenging as it started with Cutacorner ($8.60), the 3-1 second-choice, and then closed out with a trio of $20 winners, Just Fred ($24.20), Woodmans Luck ($28.60) and Killer Party ($27).
Churchill Downs did its part to give some its patrons a festive holiday with gargantuan Pick 5 and superfecta payoffs.
On Nov. 18, a Pick 5 that included two odds-on winners nonetheless managed to generate a $32,851.45 payday.
Even with A. Rod Again ($3.80) taking the seventh race and Kitten’s Top Cat ($4.20) triumphing in the 10th and final race, wins by Eton Ridge ($39.80), Malibubu ($14.40) and Cha Mono ($42.20) pushed the return into the stratosphere.
The superfecta in the third race on Nov. 19 was also extremely lucrative for handicappers who solved a tough riddle.
For starters, you need to believe that 19-1 shot Oh Oz ($41.60) could win the race. Then you needed to have Tizmatized, an Indiana Grand shipper sent off at 49-1 odds, in the second spot. To close out the ticket, you need 5-1 shot Sun and Sand and 2-1 favorite Ready by You.
If you had those four horses in the right order, you could pass “Go” and head to Park Ave. where a payoff of $30,447.90 for a $1 ticket or $3,044 for each 10-cent ticket was waiting for you.
Those looking for this week’s “How did you come up with that one?” award needed to be at Hawthorne on Nov. 20.
In the sixth race, all of those “urban cowboys” out there hoping to find a friend and lover instead could bless the day they headed to the mutuel windows and plunked down $2 to win on a 77-1 shot named Looking for Love.
If you backed the chalk in that race, you were looking in the wrong places as the first-timer starter from the barn of trainer Chris Dorris won by 2 ¼ lengths despite a seven-wide trip and paid a week’s-best $155.20 for a $2 win ticket.
Talk about those traces of what you’re dreaming of.
Highest Payouts for the Week Ended Nov. 22
Wager
Wager Amount
Payoff
Track
Date
Race#
Win
$ 2.00
$ 155.20
HAW
11/20/2015
6
Place
$ 2.00
$ 70.80
ZIA
11/16/2015
9
Show
$ 2.00
$ 30.40
ZIA
11/16/2015
9
Exacta
$ 1.00
$ 595.60
HAW
11/20/2015
4
Exacta
$ 2.00
$ 1,458.80
GPW
11/19/2015
6
Quinella
$ 1.00
$ 200.60
TUP
11/22/2015
7
Quinella
$ 2.00
$ 306.20
DMR
11/22/2015
7
Quinella
$ 5.00
$ 140.00
GPW
11/19/2015
10
Trifecta
$ 0.20
$ 716.88
HAW
11/20/2015
4
Trifecta
$ 0.50
$ 952.60
DMR
11/22/2015
7
Trifecta
$ 1.00
$ 10,769.90
TUP
11/22/2015
7
Trifecta
$ 2.00
$ 7,670.80
CD
11/19/2015
3
Superfecta
$ 0.10
$ 5,515.00
TUP
11/22/2015
7
Superfecta
$ 0.20
$ 1,579.14
HAW
11/20/2015
4
Superfecta
$ 1.00
$ 30,447.90
CD
11/19/2015
3
Superfecta
$ 2.00
$ 44,932.00
AQU
11/19/2015
3
Daily Double
$ 1.00
$ 793.50
PM
11/17/2015
2
Daily Double
$ 2.00
$ 1,854.60
FG
11/19/2015
9
Pick 3
$ 0.20
$ 874.22
HAW
11/20/2015
6
Pick 3
$ 0.50
$ 9,213.30
FG
11/19/2015
9
Pick 3
$ 1.00
$ 6,252.20
GG
11/21/2015
5
Pick 3
$ 2.00
$ 8,921.40
LRL
11/22/2015
7
Pick 4
$ 0.20
$ 1,192.28
HAW
11/20/2015
8
Pick 4
$ 0.50
$ 39,227.25
RP
11/19/2015
9
Pick 4
$ 1.00
$ 8,105.45
WO
11/22/2015
7
Pick 4
$ 2.00
$ 27,954.00
AQU
11/21/2015
9
Pick 5
$ 0.20
$ 9,817.95
WO
11/19/2015
6
Pick 5
$ 0.50
$ 32,858.45
CD
11/18/2015
10
Pick 5
$ 2.00
$ 21,150.00
AQU
11/18/2015
5
Pick 6
$ 0.10
$ 2,403.07
LRL
11/22/2015
10
Pick 6
$ 1.00
$ 423.50
TUP
11/16/2015
8
Pick 6
$ 2.00
$ 42,845.00
AQU
11/22/2015
9
Pick 6 Jackpot
$ 0.20
$ 149,231.76
GG
11/21/2015
9
Super High Five
$ 0.50
$ 892.70
FG
11/19/2015
9
Super High Five
$ 1.00
$ 20,071.20
DMR
11/19/2015
8
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Commonly Used Gambling Terms
Account wagering – Betting by internet or phone, in which a bettor must open an account and deposit money with which to bet.
Across the board – A bet on a horse to win, place and show. If the horse wins, the player collects three ways; if second, two ways; and if third, one way, losing the win and place bets. Actually, three bets.
Bounce – An especially poor performance on the heels of an especially good one.
Box – A betting term denoting a combination bet whereby all possible numeric combinations are covered for certain horses.
Bridge jumper – A person who wagers large amounts of money, usually on short- priced horses to show, hoping to realize a small but almost certain profit. The term comes from the structure those bettors may seek if they lose the bet.
Chalk – Betting favorite in a race.
Chalk player – Gambler who wagers on favorites.
Daily Double (or Double) – Type of bet calling for the selection of winners of two consecutive races.
Exacta – A wager in which the first two finishers in a race, in exact order of finish, must be picked.
Exacta box – A wager in which all possible combinations using a given number of horses are selected.
Exotic (bet) – Any bet other than win, place, or show that requires multiple combinations. Examples of exotic wagers are trifecta, Pick 6, Pick 4.
Handle – Amount of money wagered in the pari-mutuel system on a race, full day of races, or entire racing season at a track.
In the money – A horse that finishes first, second or third.
Key horse – A single horse used in multiple combinations in an exotic bet.
Morning line – The starting odds set by the track handicapper.
On the board – Finishing among the first three.
On the nose – Betting a horse to win only.
Overlay – A horse whose odds are greater than its potential to win.
Pari-mutuel – System of wagering where all the money is returned to the bettors after deduction of track and state percentages.
Parlay – A multi-race bet in which all winnings are subsequently wagered on a succeeding race.
Part wheel – Using a key horse or horses in different, but not all possible, exotic wagering combinations.
Pick (6 or other number) – A type of multi-race bet in which the winners of all the included races must be selected. Pick 3, Pick 4, Pick 5, Pick 6 are commonly used by tracks in the United States.
Place bet – A bet on a horse to finish first or second.
Quinella - Bet in which the first two finishers must be picked in either order.
Show bet – A bet on a horse to finish in the money; third or better.
Speed Figure – A metric that rates a horse’s performance in a race, which is determined by a combination of the horse’s performance and the level of competition he/she competed against.
Trifecta – A bet in which the first three finishers must be selected in exact order.
Trifecta box – A trifecta wager in which all possible combinations using a given number of horses are bet upon.
Underlay – Horse whose odds are more promising than his potential to win.
Win – A bet on a horse to finish first.
Wheel – Betting all possible combinations in an exotic wager using at least one horse as the key.