Into the Bit

I was way off on Hollywood Park yesterday. It looked to be a fairly chalky card, but there were some decent payers. Despite the good prices several people took down the Pick 6, but I don’t know how they did it. You would have had to almost wheel two races with a 9/1 winner and another with a 41/1 winner. Tonight’s card won’t have the distraction of a large carryover pool so we can concentrate on just picking some winners.
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I couldn’t find a form for Hollywood Park yesterday in a city that is in the middle of a live race meet. It looked like I might have had a good day had I played, but today is another day so we’ll give it a try. The new card arrived and I have renewed my Daily Racing Form subscription so let’s get busy. There’s a big carryover in the Pick 6 today, but the card looks a little chalky.
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I don’t have a racing form today so I’m unable to handicap Hollywood Park, and it may be a few days before I can. My subscription ran out not long after reporting my debit card lost when it was eaten by an ATM machine. I had no idea how difficult it is to go about my daily activities without a debit card. I thought I’d pick up a form at a 7-11 or something. I know they used to sell them. When did they stop selling racing forms in convenience stores? In a metropolitan area the size of Denver there are two outlets for the racing form. One of those is the dog track that is closing next week. The other is Arapahoe Park, which is in the midst of their live racing meet, but about 40 miles from where I live.
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