Posted on 06/29/2012 6:22:55 AM PDT by Holen1
Doug O’Neill has been the face of horse racing for the better part of two months...
On this day, O’Neill was just a regular horseplayer all excited about cashing a Kentucky Derby future-book ticket. Okay, so he wasn’t a typical bettor, as he was holding the only 200-1 ticket on I’ll Have Another bought at the Buffalo Bill’s race book, but since he was clean-shaven, he could have walked in incognito if the three Vegas sports reporters waiting for him hadn’t been tipped off to his arrival. O’Neill’s $100 ticket was bought at 4:48 p.m. Pacific on Feb. 3, the day before I’ll Have Another made his 2012 debut in the Robert B. Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita.
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Talk to jocks, stableboys and track lackies, they always have a chosen longshot payday built right into the racing schedule. This was obviously not one of them. Back in the day, I was tending bar. The track guys tipped me about a 25-1 horse that was going to win. Everyone raced to the window. He went off at 10-0.
The thing with horse racing is that it involves horses. There are so many things that can change the outcome of the race. Take a look at this year’s Derby and Preakness. There’s no way you can look at those and say “I’ll have another” would win those races the exact same way every time.
Good and Great horses still lose. I’ve heard plenty of times jockey’s who’ve ridden the same great horse again and again say when they lose, “He just didn’t want to run today”.
Which is what makes horse racing so enjoyable, you just never know.
This guy took a gamble, and won…that’s not to say he’s never tried to cut some corners to increase his odds.
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