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Originally Posted by castaway01
If that's a sarcastic line mocking your original post, it's funny.
If that's not a joke, then you get the refund at the same place you get a refund on last night's dinner.
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Sarcasm.
I hate excuses. It seems people nowadays make lame-ass excuses for everything they say or do wrong, or even bet on.
BUT.....
I feel as bettors, there are 4 answers to your handicapping:
A. Your handicapping sucked and your horse never had any chance. Bad bet. Bad analysis.
B. Your horse had ridiculous trouble and was left with little chance to run their race.
C. Your horse had a clean lucky run while others behind her, had trouble.
D. You analyzed the race perfectly and your horse was simply best. Good job.
I watched the Derby with great hopes for Honor Marie. Somewhere during the first 4 furlongs my wife asked me "Where is Honor Marie?"
He was far, far, far back.
I said "Not sure, for whatever reason he's not into racing today."
Then this morning I read this in BloodHorse:
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-rac...kend-takeaways
Five Key Kentucky Derby Takeaways (I posted their 4th takeaway below)
AWFUL TRIP:
With a 20-horse field and the desperation jockeys feel to reach the first turn in a good spot, the Derby can be over for some horses almost before it starts. That was the case with Honor Marie , the well-regarded Louisiana Derby runner-up.
"My race was over coming out of the gate," jockey Ben Curtis said. "I got speared from both sides. I lost an iron and had to put it back in. He was nearly down on his head, but I gave him time to pick himself up. He didn't get the smoothest first quarter of a mile and I just let him float around a bit after that." Under the circumstances, the son of Honor Code did well to finish eighth.
Not that Honor Marie would have won, but he did run a close 2nd to Sierra Leone in their previous race, so......
Vince P
