Malibu

[SoCalMan2]

Hey, this is the way I love to lose.  You have to know going in that you are going to lose more events than you will win (and if that is not the case, then you are definitely doing something wrong and chances are high that your losses are swamping your wins).  The issue is not that you lose a race.  The issue is how do you lose the ones you lose and how do you win the ones you win.  I have got no issue with a loss like this one.  I look at the payoffs and I have zero regrets.  Not one payoff up there that I feel I should have had or feel wistful about missing.

[aceriley63]

Beautiful day out there today in Arcadia, it was nice to see more than 44,000 in attendance.  I describe the crowd as \"Lots of hot women, and lots of human debris\". There was a Spanish-speaking gentleman one table over in the clubhouse with a ridiculously fat wallet of 100 dollar bills, I watched him bet - get this- a $500 trifecta 2/5,6/5,6 at Golden Gate for a grand in the middle of the card. He lost.  I think he was laundering money for the cartel. He couldn\'t cram money into the machines fast enough. He ended up hitting the superfecta on the race with the $162 winner, at first he thought he won $163k but I think he only had it for a dime. He played a few more races heavily with no luck and I didn\'t hear much from him after that, he left quietly. His head is probably bobbing down the LA river right now separate from his body.

The two sure things on the card were Mr. Bossy Pants and Mr. Commons and I singled them in all the horizontal wagers and spread around them.  Didn\'t cash a ticket but what a gorgeous day to be at the track. I\'ll be back in the area in a week with tickets to the Rose Bowl. I\'m hoping the weather isn\'t this gorgeous next weekend otherwise 100,000 more people will move here...