Stacking Some Cold Hard Today!

Just like we hoped, we flat nailed the My Charmer Handicap and hit the trifecta twice, walking away from the window with $330.40.

A quick recap of the race:
As expected, Bayou's Lassie jumped to the lead and only gave it up late, and grudgingly, holding on for her 2nd straight place finish in this race. She wasn't pressed as much as we expected, setting soft fractions of :24.07 and :48.87, which makes J'ray's win (and ours!) even more impressive.

J'ray got a great ride from Manoel Cruz, who quickly sensed the slow pace and placed her a little closer to the lead than is her norm, settling in comfortably 4 wide and waiting her turn. As we flat out nailed this morning, when the field bunched at the top of the stretch, J'ray circled them all and tracked down Bayou's Lassie in the middle of the track, gutting out a 3/4 length win.

Lastly, Redaspen, our 12/1 value play on the bottom of the trifecta lurked in 7th early, was 6th as the field turned for home, then got clean running room and gobbled up ground enough to take 3rd.

The one surprise is the flat outing from La Dolce Vita, who raced last early and passed only the tiring early speedsters to finish a dull 6th.

The tally thus far is a helluva lot better than you'll get on Wall St. right now, and a helluva lot more fun too.

Invested - $58
Returned - $330.40
ROI - 5.7 to 1

*Bonus Win* - We opted not to play the Bayakoa because, as quoted here yesterday, it looked "like a $9.40 Exacta"...it paid $9.20.