Whenever someone hears about a $308,642.60 Pick 6, the natural assumption is that the sequence was filled from start to finish with baffling longshots.
On June 23 at Santa Anita Park, that was only half correct.
The one sharp handicapper who hit the Pick 6 for more than a quarter of a million dollars actually needed to team three horses who paid $20 or more with three or were either a favorite or second choice to take down last week’s most sensational score.