Word: trifectas
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...Crimson fared better in its first games against local competition. Harvard earned a win over Vermont with a trifecta of home runs from Abeles, junior catcher Mairead McKendry and sophomore infielder Cherry Fu. The Crimson followed that up with a split at St. John's on the strength of a shutout by sophomore Suzanne...
...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...