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Originally posted by: mistrhia
Great race for those of us in Vancouver! The winning jockey has raced here at Hastings park for the past few years, and has been one of our top riders. As a result, pretty much everyone here had him as a pick on at least some of their tickets! I'd guess that 90% of the Exactas & Trifectas in this race were cashed here as a result. I've never seen anything like it!
The flood of people cashing was emptying the tills at the pay wickets faster than they could refill them! Just in the line ahead of me there were two men cashing $10 trifectas for over $13,000 each - made me feel like chump change with my $10 exacta for $1500+ and a $10 across the board for another $270!
I honestly can't remember ever seeing so many people cashing exotics on a race like this! Added to the pure joy of seeing a really nice guy have the ride of his life, it was quite a day here! The crowd went absolutely insane when he surged to the lead - the cheers were deafening as he went across the finish line! The only down side is that we probably won't see Mario Gutierrez back riding full time at Hastings Park anywhere in the near future. He is a well loved figure here, and we'll miss him a lot but wish him all the best opportunities that this win will open up for him!
Sounds like an absolute blast. Congrats on your "chump change" win.
J
