**** Richard Mathie ****

[Mitch44]

Extremely nice work Richie, so happy for you. BIG CONGRATS!!! Shows what consistency of application or procedures can produce. Just in time for Christmas,now that's real nice.

Mitch44

[rmath]

Thanks Mitch. Yes a little extra around the holidays always comes in handy.
My wife needs a new stove, so we are going shopping next week.

Happy Holidays to you and your lovely wife.

Bill I am looking forward to seeing you again at Saratoga.
Hope you have your new kidney before then.
Happy Holidays to you and your family.
PS: I hope Doc and Jimmy are smiling
down on all of us old timers.

Richard

On a side note Richard Diamond posted his picks for GP todayand he had all 6 winners of the Pic-6 in his top 3.
Way to go Richard

[omar]

Way to go Richie. I knew the 11 was the class of race but since he was chalk and it was the last race, I used the 1-4-8-10-12 over 11 trying to beat him. You know me, I'll always lean towards class over form on the grass, sprint or route. Now you know what you have to do, play two mega ball tickets next Tuesday using the 1-4-8-10-11, one with the 4 mega ball and the other with the 11. Remember gambling is 97% skill, only 3% luck. Whattya gotta know.
Omar

[RichieP]

Wow huge congrats Richie and a huge score!! Those are the best kind and at Holiday time its the cherry on top of the cake

Have a Merry Christmas and healthy New Year!!

[Ted Craven]

Dick, Christmas came early in the Mathie household! Big congratulations Quite the 'system' you got there


Ted

[The Pook]

Rich,

$4000 for $4.80!!! Thats amazing. Maybe I should start looking at the exotics.

Excuse my ignorance but could you explain why in the GP results it shows a carryover of better than $600,000 for the Pick 6. You and others had all 6 picks so why don’t you get the entire pool?

Congrats,
Pook (Mike)

[rmath]

Thanks Omar, Richie P and Ted.
Omar I agree with you when playing individual races that odds play a very important part when making win bets.
But when it comes to multi race bets I have found that if I want to have a good chance of cashing a ticket then I have to use the best horses regardless of odds. Besides you really have no idea what the odds will be after the first leg is run.

Ted, yes everything has been working out very well with RDSS.

Happy Holidays to all at PaceandCap

Rmath

[Lt1]

Mike GP and several other tracks have a jackpot p6 where you have to have the only p6 winning ticket to win the jackpot. In Richies' case there were multiple winners therefore the majority of the pool was carried over into todays jackpot.
Tim

[rmath]

Pook, Thanks.
The Pic 6 pool is only paid out if only ONE ticket hits, when more than one hits then only a certain percentage of the pool is paid out; with the exception of a mandatory payout day.

Rmath

[omar]

The formula for the payout in The Pick 6 at Gulfstream Park is as follows: 30% is paid out if there are multiple winners and 70% is carried over to the next racing day. But today 12-15 there's a guarantee pool of $700,000. Richie M I agree with you that you got to put in the best horses when you're playing horizontally sometimes but I didn't play the Rainbow Six yesterday, I only played the Exacta in the last race.
I have found that every pk3 that I caught, I keyed one or two longshots in one of the legs and spread no more than 5 or 6 horses in another leg. If I find myself betting more than $24 on a .50 ticket, then I'm reaching and might as well play the races vertically. But when it comes to the pk5 or pk6 I agree that you have to use the best horses in all but 2 legs where I would find weak favorites and only use 2 longshots in those legs. Hey,good luck today.
Omar