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...starts Feb. 12 on Lake Guntersville in Huntsville, Ala.), players pick 10 anglers from the 155 pros who enter each tourney, in the order they believe the fishermen will finish. The better your picks do, the more points you rack up. And there's a hefty bonus for an exacta--if your pick for first or second or third, etc., matches the tournament rankings. The player with the most points at the end of each competition gets $100,000. Whoever piles up the most points over all six tournaments wins the million, a record fantasy-sports payout...
...broke stride when he stopped to look at a sign on the inside rail, spooking his backers. War Chant gets blinkers tomorrow, and is equally capable of a misstep as he is of a money run. Although War Chant has never run outside California, he could complete a Drysdale exacta and validate his breeding...
...Like veterans of a long war, we accumulated stories. My grandmother once collected several hundred dollars when she was misheard at the ticket window and given a trifecta she hadn't asked for, but which hit anyway. The entire Habib family got rich when an exacta combining Sweet Charlie (my father's nickname) and Texas Gentleman (my uncle then lived in Houston) defied long odds. I once made the mistake of playing an exacta straight instead of both ways, and was roundly rebuked. To each story was ascribed a moral: never correct a wrong ticket, always pay attention...
...action comes in various forms. There are basic bets like win, place and show, which correspond to a horse's running first, second or third. Then there are the "exotics," like the exacta and trifecta, which are bets on the first two and first three runners, respectively. On the last race of each day's card, every track offers a superfecta-picking the first four finishers, in order. Nearly impossible to hit, the super inevitably pays off at better than $1,000, and I've seen it go as high as 50 times that. On Feb. 4, a full-time...
...Girl Friday, Hildy Johnson wound up with the exacta: she got to ditch her fiance and keep her job. Back then, having it all was getting paid for work you loved doing. Maybe the old days -- and the old movies -- were more modern than we thought...