Fri at L/Dns: A Saga

[Josephus]

This ever happen to you?

I\'m at the Med. today playing the Downs with my trusty TG. I skip a lot of the early races and I\'m up to the 8th without cashing.  I look briefly at the pick 4, but the last race looks inscrutable.  I like Bello Eden in the 8th, I key him and also play a 1/4/1 Pk3 with him, I cash with his win, and now my key in 9th Golden Trip ( in my Pk3 ) wins and I cash. Venomous is my single in the 10th and things are looking good... what the hell..I\'ll look at 11th again and see if I can come up with a DD with Venomous...the trainer on the 11 looks dangerous with 1st Timers so I play a cold DD 4/11 just for fun.  Well Venomous comes in and the Pk3 pays $404 and I\'m feelin pretty good...lo and behold the 11 noses out 1 in the finale and I\'ve got a $184 DD, as Larry David would say I\'m feeling pretty, pretty, pretty good... until I see that the PK4 which I didn/t play, but had all the winners, pays 26K . X#*!&#!X  Oh Well.