Don't You Just Hate it When...

[sq764]

...you're betting a nice double wager at Charlestown last night and you are down to 2 horses you feel confident about in the 8th race and you decide to throw the other one out because the jockey is 0 for 81 this year!!!

...And then he beats you for his first win of the year??

[ranchwest]

I bet on Tammy Fox when she got her first win, after over 600 losses to start her career. Her horse would have been 2/5 if any other jockey was aboard, but was 5/1. Why did I bet on her? Good hunch. She was on the outside. I figured with this good of a horse they would tell her to break and stay clear of other horses and win. She went about 4 wide on the turn without a horse inside of her, almost blew it trying to whip the horse at the top of the lane, then grabbed the mane to win for fun.

Almost everyone wins sometime.

[Lefty]

Yrs ago I had a $30+ win with Danny Sorenson aboard. My friend asked, "How could you bet Sorenson? He was 0-101."
I said, "And I didn't bet any of 'em I didn't bet Sorenson, I bet the horse."
There ya go.

[Dave Schwartz]

Lefty,

And I remember betting on Bill WInland in two consecutive races at Hollywood one day... he won both and was taken down on both! Aggggh!


Dave

[takeout]

Originally posted by sq764
and you decide to throw the other one out because the jockey is 0 for 81 this year!!!

...And then he beats you for his first win of the year??

And the night after that a trainer that was 0-for-49 wins two races with his only two starters. :D

[anglemaster]

I recall in the Winter/Spring of 2001 of John Campo Jr. winning both halfs of the Daily Double at either Hia or GP.

What's the odds of that. Frankly I do not think that he has won more than two races since then.

John

[freeneasy]

years ago when Steve Cauthan was riding here at Santa Anita he slid into a horrendous losing streak of some 75 races in a row. He had just signed a contract to ride for Robert Sangster in Europe where he rode out the rest of his career. Well I had to attest his losing streak to the fact that the trainers wanted to give their horses to someone that would stay on. During that whole losing streak I bet him twice, once he placed and the other he won.
When he retired and came home I saw him on an interview and he spoke with this twangy English accent. comical. what was his overall win % when he retired from English racing. And last I think I heard he was given a position as a spokesman for a track on the East Coast