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Saturday, May 19, 2012
Let me get this out of the way right now … I’m not a big bettor. That probably will come as a surprise to many of you, as closely as I follow the sport, and as often as I write about it, but it’s true. I live, eat, and breathe thoroughbred horse racing, but wagering is only one part of the game I enjoy. I rarely bet on a weekday, and wagering even $100 on a race card usually only happens on a few big race days a year. A yearly total of betting for me never reaches three thousand. I guess you could say, I am the poster child for betting with my head, not over it. So today, when I shelled out $108 to cover my selections in the Preakness Day Jackpot Pick 5, it represented one of my biggest bets of the year. I “went for it” for two reasons.