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The horse can show all the rights signs of health, fitness and conditioning and still be very outclassed...enough to run out of the money. All the data, signs, and wonders are required to keep being a winner at this game and that requires extensive free time and extra money also....
I picture the average race-goer, and weekly enthusiast losing his shirt almost every time...because he bets until he wins, wins then bets until he loses all the money he brought with him for the day....
The track talk about ‘handle’ and their 15% to 25% ‘rake’ as if that was all they got...but really, they get nearly ALL of it...most of the fans walk away with empty pockets every day...and maybe just the whales, a few sharks and some guys on boards like this one do ok...sometimes...but the rake is like taking 10 pounds of cash and putting it through a 25% filter...you get 75% back....and do that 6 or 10 more times...real soon you’re left with about as much dough as to purchase a cup of coffee....
...the more times you bet, the more times you put your money through that filter...the more we play, the less chance we leave with more than we started with....it is how the tracks stay in business, everyone knows this....and still we continue to bet, thinking that THIS TIME things will be different....
Last edited by VigorsTheGrey; 01-14-2019 at 11:39 PM.
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