Weekend Winners Club

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Friday, May 29 we posted predictions for every race at Santa Anita.  Recently we’ve been doing a report card for every race day predictions which are all posted before the first race of the day.  Then we give ourselves a grade.  I have to admit, we’ve been doing well on these posts.  We give the result and payouts only if we got them, in the format of $1 Exacta, 50 cent tri, dime super, and 50ct pick 4.

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R1 3:30ET 4.5f D MSW 2 YO F 50000:  7 3 4

Result:  5 3 7 4
Recap:  5 winning at 18-1 was not a shocker. Of the 3 1^st timer starters in the 7 horse field, she was equally unlikely to win as the other 2.  It made sense to key the 3 7 4 at various positions, in which case you would have got this.  In this type of race we always wheel all on top of the dime super, paid $56.

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R2 4:01ET 5.5f D Clm 25000 3 UP FM :  4 1 6 5

Result:  6 1 5 3
Recap: Getting the winner at 5-1 in a 6h field was a pleasant surprise.  Payouts weren’t great due to field size, but we got them easily.  Exacta $15, Trifecta $21, Dime $15.

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R3 4:33ET 5.5f T MSW 3 UP FM 50000:  1 7 8 4 3                LSS 3

Result:  8 7 5 1
Recap:  The 5 was top behind 7 but I just didn’t like her in a 5.5f race almost devoid of early speed The other 3 were obvious chalk so it didn’t pay much, and all we got was the Exacta for $11.

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R4 5:05ET 8f D Clm 12500n2l 3 UP FM :  5 6 4 1  LSS 3

Result:  6 5 3 1
Recap:  4 ended up scratching and a field of 5 not worth betting the exacta.  3 was our next choice as seen as LSS above so we put her at the 3 slot and got a trifecta of $35 certainly not bad for a 5h field.

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R5 5:37ET 8f T Md 62500 3 UP:  6 2 9 4 10 12        LSS 2 10

Result:  2 6 8 14
Recap:  2 was initially a LSS as seen, went down to 6-1 but still good for payouts.  8 wasn’t horrible and was tied for 3^rd in EP, but we just didn’t like him here and at 27-1 the public didn’t either. We had to settle for an Exacta of $28.5.  Oh did I mention the 50 cent Pick 4 payout of $661?! Yep.

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R6 6:09ET 5.5f D Md 25000 3 UP FM :  3 7 5 2 8  LSS 8

Result:  8 2 7 5
Recap: Another wins! But again it was down to 5-1 at post time.  Field of 7 so payouts weren’t great.  Exacta $22, Trifecta $57, Dime $39. 

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R7 6:41ET 5.5f T OClm 80000n1x 3 YO F :  1 4 3

Result:  3 4 5 1
Recap:  4 horse field was not worth betting anything. 

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R8 7:11ET 8f D OClm 40000 3 UP  :  2 1 6 3 8

Result:  1 2 3 8
Recap:  Obviously we called this one and finally another race worth betting on. Got the 1 and 2 at 5-1 each, not bad for our top 2 picks.  More boring payouts.  Exacta $36, Tri $42, Dime $26.  Oh wait, there’s more! An inexplicable Pick 4 payout of $1085?!

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Once again, the verticals saved the day.  Horizontals for the most part hardly paid anything, but winning over $1700 in the two Pick 4’s which cost an average of about $50 each made the day worthwhile.  The WPS bets on the LSS’s that won were nice, but the Pick 4’s were what made the day for sure.

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Overall Grade:  A.   Despite short fields, we gave you LSS’s that hit the board, and more importantly won, giving you some nice Pick 4 payouts that you obviously didn’t bet or else the payouts wouldn’t have been so high. 

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