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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Get A Hunch, Bet A Bunch

It’s a tough game when long-priced horses win three races and the chalk battles for scraps. That was the case Monday, when four more second choices is this a handicapper’s curse, or what? won, including Charge The Jury, a $57.40 victor in the sixth race. Second picks have won 20 times in the last seven days. Regrettably, this is horses, not horseshoes.

Emerald Downs invader Chi Chi Diamond looks like a galloping winner in tonight’s third race. Seven By Seven, in the sixth, is back with his own kind after running fifth in an Emerald Downs marathon, but Two An Oh should be tough after being squeezed back last time out. The Masked Patient and Sensational Knight head a very tough field in the seventh. In the eighth, some Montana stakes horses will help us find out how good Hit Man Mackee is. If there’s any run left in Extreme Edge, he’ll show it in the nightcap.

Come on, first choices.

Here are today’s selections:

FIRST: $2 daily doubles pairing CN FORWYNS and ASHOUK with AGE OF SURVIVAL and SEEIN’ RED ($8).

THIRD: $20 to win CHI CHI DIAMOND and $1 trifectas wheeling her to ONE SHARP PROSPECT, COUNT ME and FROSTY BEAR ($6).

SIXTH: $10 to win on SEVEN BY SEVEN and $2 exactas both ways with TWO AND OH, NILES CREEK and CASH’N PRIZES ($12). Parlay half of winnings to HIT MAN MACKEE.

EIGHTH: $10 to win on HIT MAN MACKEE.

NINTH: In $1 trifecta, wheel EXSPECIALLY to ONE SHARP SAM, HOLY HOT ROD and EXTREME EDGE ($6).

Original bankroll: $2,000.

Monday’s result: Lost $63.

Present bankroll: $1,431.70.

, DataTimes