This is why gambling is for suckers.
So today was the Belmont Stakes, last of the Triple Crown. Me and my family usually pick some horses and do a Trifecta (pick 3 horses, they have to get first, second, and third in any order). So I look at the horses and pick Da'Tara, a 38-1, worst odds in the race, terrible pole position, but I liked the look of the horse and his bloodline. My dad picks Macho Again, a 17-1, my grandmother picked a 7-2, Denis of Cork. My sister wanted the odds-on favorite, Big Brown, who was going at 4-1 and seemed likely to be the first Triple Crown winner in almost 30 years.
Dad goes to the casino(can't gamble legally for another 16 days), gets his ticket, and then we wait until the race. My horse gets in first almost immediately and goes the entire distance, winning the Belmont. Grandma's is in second. Dad's was in third until way late, and Big Brown fades and doesn't even place. It was a dead heat for third.
That means I was about a horse's nose from winning 3 thousand dollars. Son of a BITCH!
Edit-And if my dad put a win ticket on Da'Mara like he does sometimes I would have won 700 dollars. MotherFUCKER.
