Canterbury Park’s 2022 racing season runs from May 18 to Sept 17. For horse players they have a low 10% takeout on the early pick 4 and pick 5 wagers. There is something happening for the family almost every weekend. Although, I find the basset hound, corgi, wiener dog, and zoo animal contests an unwanted distraction from the horse racing action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve seen a lot of things happen, both good and bad, as they often do at live sporting events. I was there once when a huge thunderstorm rolled in and halted racing. I’ve seen numerous horse and jockey injuries. I once saw a helicopter land near the track to take a jockey to the hospital. I was sitting outside once and a kid who was walking with his mother stopped right in front of me and threw up. Not a pretty sight. My biggest win there was around $340. Most of the time I would break even or come out slightly ahead. But those were the days when I was still trying to figure out how to handicap a race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I live about two miles from Canterbury Park and have attended many live races in the past 10 years. This year I was looking forward to going to the races. I can no longer work, so I have more time to handicap races. But a few things are preventing me from going to the track. People are still spreading COVID, and the stock market has wiped out all of the gains that I had in the last 2 years. The money I have left is slowly being consumed by inflation. Even though it doesn’t cost much to get an admission ticket, I can’t take a chance on having a losing day at the track. When I was getting a regular paycheck, I could take a couple hundred out to work with. Now, that money needs to go toward paying utility, mortgage, and insurance bills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s sad and depressing when you can’t partake in something you enjoy, like going to the track. I still place a wager on TVG from time to time. Lately, I’ve been invited to play in their free pick 5 contests. Players who pick the winner in 5 races get to split a $5000 prize. If you get 4 out of 5, you split $1000. So far this year, TVG has paid me $47.24 from promotions. If you would like to wager on TVG please use my referral link<\/a> to open an account. My picks for the Preakness: 4 (Secret Oath), 5 (Simplification), 8 (Epicenter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Canterbury Park’s 2022 racing season runs from May 18 to Sept 17. For horse players they have a low 10% takeout on the early pick 4 and pick 5 wagers. There is something happening for the family almost every weekend. Although, I find the basset hound, corgi, wiener dog, and zoo animal contests an unwanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/budgethomepage.com\/gaming\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/budgethomepage.com\/gaming\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/budgethomepage.com\/gaming\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/budgethomepage.com\/gaming\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/budgethomepage.com\/gaming\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/budgethomepage.com\/gaming\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/budgethomepage.com\/gaming\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/budgethomepage.com\/gaming\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/budgethomepage.com\/gaming\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/budgethomepage.com\/gaming\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}