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Notice something important. Mathematically all the horses are supposed to be 5-1. In your betting scenario, only one carries those odds. This is what we call, “Having the odds in your favor,” and bookies did it to me all the time. This is why bookies drove to the races in late-model luxury cars while I was driving a Ford Fairlane with 87,000 miles on it.
If you can get your friends to spread their money around on all the horses, you will win, no matter which horse wins the race.
I tried this last year, but I was even tougher on my friends. In a six-horse field, I would make one horse 1-2, one at 1-1, then the rest at 2-1, 52, 3-1 and 7-2. I killed them!
By the end of the day I had all the money that my buddies had put up, and they really didn’t complain because they didn’t realize what had happened to them. Try it yourself. It’s fun, and you might be able to buy dinner off your winnings. Just don’t let them read this article.
George Rowand is an award-winning thoroughbred owner and breeder, the busi- j ness editor for the Fauquier Times-Democrat, and a popular guy. Really.
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