Well, now, that was forgettable; wasn't it?
We came close to hitting our single play in the opening leg, Race 6; but Derby Watch (Final Odds 6.7-1) just couldn't get past the winner, Songa (17.5-1). Incidentally, I feel like I betrayed all that Mark Cramer ever tried to teach me in his writings by not having Songa, as a horse making its second start while trading a bug boy for a top rider was one of Cramer's favorite angles.
Well, if you can't win 'em all, no point in winning any of them; at least, that's what it seems like our motto was today. Oh, we did have the winner in the second leg, Race 7 as Win for Kitten (5.1-1) scored in her first try against winners. And we certainly gave it the old college try in Race 8, as we managed to have three-quarters of the Superfecta without having the Winner, Go Canes Go (10.3-1).
Race 9 saw the Post Time favorite, State Flag (2.7-1), whom we did not have, hold off late charges from Present Course (3.0-1), whom we also did not have, and Grandstand (6.5-1), whom we did have.
Race 10 was the Hurricane Bertie Stakes. We covered three of the nine horses that went to post; or, to put it another way, we covered half of the horses that finished out of the money. I should mention that Applauding (5.9-1), the filly about whom I've written on multiple occasions, showed that, while her body has returned to racing, her heart has not. In what could only loosely be referred to as an effort, Applauding jogged around the track, finishing last, almost twenty-five lengths behind the winner, Post Time favorite Golden Mystery (2.6-1). While it's possible that an injury may be to blame, I think it's fair to presume that Applauding has simply not regained her desire to compete on the track; only time will tell if she ever will.
The final race saw our other single, Si Senora (3.9-1) break in air, pretty much ending her race before it even began. She would finish seventh, a little over nine lengths behind the winner, Missy Miner (7.9-1).
So, the end result was that we wound up with one out of six winners on our Rainbow 6 ticket; a result that pays exactly as much as having five out of six winners. Those who were skillful enough to have the correct sequence of 9 / 9 / 8 / 2 / 6 / 5 were rewarded with $18,246.74 for their ten cent wager.
Oh well; onto the next race.
Peace and Love,
Jimbo
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