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Backwheeling & Alive. According to the group's official spokesman, Joseph J. Saker, 35, six out of the seven partners were at the track that night to watch a horse belonging to three of them, which was running in an earlier race. Once there, they decided to hang around for the twin-double (a package deal that covers four races-the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth). The group liked No. 5 in the seventh race, "back-wheeled" by coupling it with each of the eight horses running in the sixth race. They bought two $10 tickets on each combination...
...their own admission, they were men "of substantial means" who did not "especially need the money"; among them, they had upwards of 28 dependents. Michael D. Sherman, 51, is a successful suburban real-estate dealer. William L. Bresnahan Jr., 31, is a dairy distributor, a partner with Joe Saker and his brother John E. Saker Jr., 30, in a 14-horse stable. Fair Acres Farm in Freehold, N.J. The Saker brothers also own a franchise in a supermarket chain. Their father, described as too ill and elderly to make the trip, owns the fifth share in the winning ticket...
...SAKER...
THEODORE R. SAKER Warren, Ohio...
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