'Booyah' for real

Talk about the virtue of patience. Saturday,  I  rescued what seemed to be a futile,  dismal day at  the races by resisting my natural impatience urge.  

The search for 'move' horses  expanded to three tracks--Aqueduct, Gulfstream, and Fairgrounds. Big A was playing to obvious speed for the past few days  (resulting in small prices) and I had suffered confusion in the slop at Gulfstream, my featured track.  So FG became my third option.

After  Why Who ($26) won the second at Gulf, I was hard pressed to find another wagering opportunity.  I scaled my betting unit back from $5 to $2. No luck, until Seventy Six ran second in Big A's seventh race.  Still, I was antsy and getting bored.

I was resigned to having my first losing day in a week when  pps in Aqueduct's tenth reached out and slapped me in the face. 

Bwana Booyah  wasn't a 'move' horse.  But, it qualified for my second favorite method--a horse showing superior speed to pre-stretch, then collapsing. Most players assume this  type of  horse is a quitter and stay away. For me, the superior pace quarter is a hint about possible improvement.  While 46.3 is no great shakes it was blazing  for entrants in this 16000 maiden claimer.. Addtonally, Booyah was perfect to take advantage of the IDT 'speed--bias.

At 11-1, i bet $10 across the board, another $10 to show and  $1triple-wheeled the horse in front and in back of the favorite.  By post-time Booyah's odds drifted  way up.  It won by a city-block  (See the chart).  It's an easy game (sic).