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06-21-2010, 09:33 PM
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Do you have any odd rituals or superstitions while at the races
I don't have any real odd ball ones off hand, but I have a thing with lucky pens. I have this Hello Kitty pen that I have been using the past couple of times at the races and have won $300. I'm a small bettor that goes on the weekend and that is a lot for me. I went yesterday without my Hello Kitty pen and lost $200. I take the unlucky pen or pens and toss them out the car window on the way home.
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06-21-2010, 09:34 PM
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Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 9,908
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I never take $50 dollar bills when they pay me. They're bad luck.
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06-21-2010, 09:35 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
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Originally Posted by Hardspun
I don't have any real odd ball ones off hand, but I have a thing with lucky pens. I have this Hello Kitty pen that I have been using the past couple of times at the races and have won $300. I'm a small bettor that goes on the weekend and that is a lot for me. I went yesterday without my Hello Kitty pen and lost $200. I take the unlucky pen or pens and toss them out the car window on the way home.
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Really? Are you male or female?
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06-21-2010, 09:42 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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Male...I got the pin from a Korean store as a joke and it became lucky.
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06-21-2010, 09:43 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Rock
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Originally Posted by letswastemoney
Really? Are you male or female?
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 I was thinking the exact same thing.
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06-21-2010, 09:43 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 1,144
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Originally Posted by andymays
I never take $50 dollar bills when they pay me. They're bad luck.
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So are 2 dollar bills 
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igeteven says: When you tell the truth nobody believes you, when you lie, everyone believes you.
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06-21-2010, 10:39 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Posts: 1,366
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I love fifties. Twice as good as a twenty!
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06-21-2010, 11:11 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 28,546
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I never, EVER, cancel a bet once I make it...regardless of circumstances.
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06-21-2010, 11:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: 1 hr away from Belmont
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Before I make my first bet I say the gamblers prayer. It goes like this; "Oh Lord, please let me win today". I always thank him every time I win too because it seems like a miracle every time. 
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Last edited by shouldacoulda; 06-21-2010 at 11:18 PM.
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06-21-2010, 11:20 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 7,510
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Originally Posted by Hardspun
I don't have any real odd ball ones off hand, but I have a thing with lucky pens. I have this Hello Kitty pen that I have been using the past couple of times at the races and have won $300. I'm a small bettor that goes on the weekend and that is a lot for me. I went yesterday without my Hello Kitty pen and lost $200. I take the unlucky pen or pens and toss them out the car window on the way home.
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Never tear up losing tickets. Never throw them on the floor. Always toss the dead ones in the trash. And GOD FORBID I forget to throw them away before I make bets for the next race. Kiss of death!!!!
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06-21-2010, 11:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Originally Posted by cnollfan
I love fifties. Twice as good as a twenty!
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actually two and a half
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06-21-2010, 11:28 PM
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Racing Form Detective
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Lincoln, Ne but my heart is at Santa Anita
Posts: 16,316
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I used to have to cross rail tracks to get to the track. I notice when ever I had to wait on a train I would lose. So it got the point whenever I had to wait on a train, I would turn around go back home.
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Some day in the not too distant future, horse players will betting on computer generated races over the net. Race tracks will become casinos and shopping centers. And some crooner will be belting out "there used to be a race track here".
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06-21-2010, 11:31 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Reno, NV
Posts: 16,908
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Boys, boys, boys.
Always remember that it is bad luck to be superstitious.
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06-21-2010, 11:39 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 654
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If I have a three horse exacta box and the jockey falls off one and anther one breaks down right out of the gate I should just go home.
If My horse comes charging at the end just to collapse 5 feet before the wire, its time to go home.
If i bet on any horse that breaks down i guess its a signal to just go home.
I have never won anything after anything like this happens.
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06-21-2010, 11:50 PM
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2 outta 3 aint bad
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Lehigh Valley,PA.
Posts: 2,217
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No Dumping Allowed!
Have never won,
when they are leading the horses into the gate and my horse starts taking a dump...................No B.S.
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