Click HERE and then click on April 26th, race 6. Horse #7 lost it’s jockey but continued to run the entire race on it’s own, actually winning (it was disqualified).
I had $50 across the board on the 5 horse in that race. F**ker came in 4th!:mad: I did not have a good day. At one point I was down $600 but had a brief win streak hitting 4 straight exactas and a trifecta box. I then went on another downslide and
decided to cut my loses and leave when I was only down $40. Looks like I’ll be drinking Milwaukees Beast this month instead of Sam Adams.
The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn’t get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
Those as wants to run, will run. For those as don’t wants to run, you can’t make 'em.
Just look at good ol’ Zippy Chippy. Losingest horse that ever ran. DQed from the Jockey Club for refusing to break from the gate. Some horse won’t go in the gate. Zippy wouldn’t leave.
On the other hand, idiot humans kept betting on him! The horse never won, not even once! He’s been beaten in a footrace by a minor league baseball player! (true). But people still kept betting on him.
Moral of the story: Horses is weird. But peoples is weird too.
My favorite story of the ponies goes way back to 1977… July 7, to be exact. Being 7/7/77, a bunch of people took this as a lucky sign at Ak-sar-ben (the horse track in Omaha) and put their money down on the 7th horse in the 7th race.