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Originally Posted by thaskalos
Just prior to the 8th race at Wrd, the  , a FTS named Gospel Ike, threw off his rider and dashed off...while getting captured by the track camera as the horse was galloping at full speed down the track. And yet, even though the horse was running by himself for an extended period of time...he was eventually corralled and loaded into the starting gate...the extended runoff notwithstanding. The horse was sitting at about 7-1 before the incident, but the attuned bettors wisely allowed his odds to adjust to 12-1 by the race's start...while the bettors who weren't paying attention were simply out of luck. Oh, yeah...the horse finished dead last...about 4 lengths behind the second-last horse. What a blight on the game these shit-tracks are... |
This same scenario, back in 1989 at Rockingham Park, happened to me except the horse wired the field and it was my first day of betting the horses.
