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Poor Winners

By Jay Cronley
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, June 15, 2009

What's the worst thing that can happen to a horseplayer? Being called that, for starters: horseplayer, railbird, deadbeat, sucker — most descriptions of investing in horse race futures are cut from the cloth of a Damon Runyon zoot suit. Unless an orphan and an old guy with a limp own a horse, thoroughbred racing fiction is dominated by heavy underdogs. As garbage has become known as refuse, and as fighting hopeless slot odds has become "gaming," so too should horseplayers have a fresher an ...

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