Will Rogers Race 2

[Boomer]

5 Horse field


Favorites run one two


Exacta $12.00


Quinella $102.00


Ok sleuths....what the heck was bet in error by someone to cause this quinella price?

[MONEY]

The will pays for the $2.00, 1/5 quinella was paying only $2.00.
The bettor likely meant to bet race #1.

[SG4]

Based on the quinella pools of race 1 & 3, looks like the 2nd race had about a $6000+ finger slip to create the comparatively massive pool in race 2

[Boomer]

Or maybe Mattress Mack was in town.

[cnollfan]

I don't think this was an error. Not sure how they are getting down elsewhere, but pretty sure they are sacrificing $5000 in the quinella pool to distort the payoffs and collect a lot more than that from a non-pari-mutuel source.

It's not the first time it happened at Will Rogers this year. See Race 1 on April 7. $2 exacta paid $69, $2 quinella paid $650. Quinella pool $6000+ instead of the $900 or so it usually is. All the combinations with a 34-1 shot were paying 3-1.

[cj]

Originally Posted by cnollfan

I don't think this was an error. Not sure how they are getting down elsewhere, but pretty sure they are sacrificing $5000 in the quinella pool to distort the payoffs and collect a lot more than that from a non-pari-mutuel source.

It's not the first time it happened at Will Rogers this year. See Race 1 on April 7. $2 exacta paid $69, $2 quinella paid $650. Quinella pool $6000+ instead of the $900 or so it usually is. All the combinations with a 34-1 shot were paying 3-1.

I'm not sure that would fly even once these days, let alone twice. Offshore places have very low limits on tracks like WRD last I checked and I doubt they've grown.

[sharkey11]

back in the early to mid teens greyhound racing had a guy doing this type of thing in the straight pools they had a nick name for him GUS now i cant confirm this but the guy had outs somewhere offshore or in europe .he spoke to me through a board like this one a few times and told me he was a big time poker player anyway i always enjoyed it when we spoke an when he was betting

[jay68802]

Today, not seeing a option to bet the quinella at WRD. At least it is not on Twinspires.

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by jay68802

Today, not seeing a option to bet the quinella at WRD. At least it is not on Twinspires.

Yep no quinellas today


cnoll best theory and logical

[jameegray1]

No Quinellas again today at Will Rogers.

[cj]

Originally Posted by Boomer

Yep no quinellas today


cnoll best theory and logical

Why would Will Rogers do something to protect offshore/bookies that would possibly be getting burned by the scheme proposed? Makes no sense.

[Boomer]

Based on cnoll comments about the way the bets covered a 34-1 shot and the huge handle on that pool alone, it seems clear some scumbaggery was going down.


That is why I asked in the initial post for the sleuths to figure it out. Way beyond my paygrade