Building useful plays and being a little “looser” in your expectations and demands can help you make more successful wagers. In race #5 at BF-HOllywood, my Key horse was my TOP-RAted horse – Sacred Ovation, my exotic turns were the 1,2,4,5. Well the #4 won at box car price and my KEY horse did what Key horse is suppose to do, he ran 1st or 2nd, in this case 2nd — good enough! Interestingly, the overlay price on the #4 Super Hugh created a windfall in the exacta paying a whopping $101.80 for a $1.00 wager…
Here is the cool thing, for people who were very rigid in their thinking, they got no money, I on the other hand earned nearly 10/1 for my short price horse who ran 2nd…
IF I had singled Sacred Ovation in any type of Pick 3 or Pick4 – I would have gotten nothing for that wager, but in this case I earned nearly 10/1 and my horse didn’t even win…