6/17/17 Golden Gate Fields Late Pick Four - Results

Race 7 - # 5 Gurnick (Final Odds 1.70*) - "A" Selection
Race 8 - # 1 Kimberlea K (1.60*) - "A" and "C" Selection*
Race 9 - # 4 She'll Get'er Done (3.30) - "A" Selection
Race 10 - # 2 Ragazza Di Vola (3.80) - "A" Selection

* # 10 Silver One, a "C" Selection, was a late scratch from Race 8; thus giving me the Post Time Favorite and eventual winner # 1 Kimberlea K in her place.

So a sequence that I thought was oh so difficult turned out to be not so complex after all, with half the winners being the Post Time Favorite and all of the four chart toppers paying less than ten dollars in the Win Pool.  But I think that's pretty common among handicappers (or, at least, when it comes to my handicapping); that is, not being able to always proper assess the degree of difficulty in a multi-race sequence.  That's why I'm a firm believer that it's best for multi-race players to have a set sequence that they pre-determine that they will play on a regular basis (be it The Pick Six, The Pick Five, The Late Pick Four, or what have you) come hell or high water, and not allow themselves to be deterred on those occasions when they determine that the puzzle is far too difficult to solve.  Anyway, that's my opinion; and my personal experience through the years seems to bear that out.

For the record, here's the $0.50 Will Pays for the other seven runners to which I would have cashed in the finale:

# 1 Flika (15.10) - $444.70 Finish: 4th
# 4 Queen Scheherazade (2.90*) - $77.70 Finish: 2nd
# 5 Enchanted Jasmine (6.40) - $124.00 Finish: 3rd
# 7 Bonnie’s Ransom (9.80) - $252.95 Finish: 7th
# 8 Having Fun (3.90) - $115.35 Finish: 6th
# 11 Benchmark Rose (6.90) - $247.40 Finish: 5th
# 12 Shayna Punims (18.20) - $669.60 Finish: 8th

But that's what might have been.  What actually came to be was a correct Late Pick Four sequence of  5 / 1 / 4 / 2  which paid $106.75 for a fifty cent wager.  Since all four were "A" Selections the payout is trebled; and because of the late scratch of Silver One in the second leg the payout is quadrupled (for the record, # 8 Having Fun was my other "A" Selection in the final leg, so her payout, had she won, would have been quadrupled as well).  So four times $106.75 makes the total payout $427; which in turn makes for a profit of $345 on the initial $82 investment, or approximate odds of 4.207-1.

I hope you all had it with me.  May God bless us as we spend our winnings.

Onto the next race!

Peace and Love,

Jimbo