Canterbury Park 2011

This is kind of off topic for this blog, but I haven't had any new website customers or purchased any tech gadgets lately. This weekend was the last weekend of racing at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, MN. It's just a few miles down the road from our house, so we decided to spend the afternoon there.

This was our third time there. I don't know what the odds of winning three exacta's in a row are, but I did it on races 5, 6, and 7. For an exacta bet, you have to pick the 1st and 2nd horse in the exact order to win. I also won the exacta on race 9. There were 9 races, so picking 4 out of 9 is pretty hard to do! I was betting $5 on each bet, and each race has different odds, so the payouts varied ($45, $48, $90, $17). I basically analyzed all the information provided by the track and looked at which horses had the most money bet on them to narrow down my choices. I will have to wait until next year to see if my horse picking ability was the result of skill or luck.