It's very exciting. Each of the 6 charities get to pick a horse for each race. You get points for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishes. If you come in with the highest total, you win $10,000. For us, that would go a long way towards disaster response in Ontario County. But we had to do well at the races first.
And I was certain we would do well. We had an "in" at the track. She put together a brain trust of the top jockeys and trainers to give us advice on which horses would do well. These are the guys (and girls) that are around the track all day, every day. They know their stuff. Or at least we thought they did.We started to have our doubts when their first pick had 20-1 odds. But we gave them the benefit of the doubt. They obviously knew the horses better than we did. And the horse's name WAS 'The Color Red.' An obvious sign that we were meant to pick it.
Or not. It finished last. DFL, actually.
Our day didn't get much better from there on out. We tried other strategies.
We selected the horses that the track's handicapper suggested.
We voted as a team.
We looked at each horse as it prepared in the paddock.
And then we just gave up, closed our eyes, and pointed to a spot on the program.
We failed miserably. The winning team had 27 points. We had 5. We were the worst scoring team by at least 12 points.
And we walked away with $2,000. Still, that's not a bad take for a fun Saturday afternoon. And it will be put to very good use.
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