Get A Hunch, Bet A Bunch

How do you excuse a $179 typing mistake, especially when it’s your own? Because we can’t parlay backwards, even in our dreams, listing INSTEAD OF CAL, rather than PRAIRIE WALKER, both winners, was, well, costly. If your bill collectors don’t accept good intentions, Get A Hunch’s shouldn’t either, although the dough would have nearly made us even.

Still, with four days left and plenty of bankroll, let’s shoot for a profitable season. With slop, speed should win the route races and true mud-lovers should shine. In the simulcast, Comininalittlehot, a Playfair stakes sprinter last fall, has a shot.

Here are today’s selections:

FIRST. Box first three choices with first three in second race twice. $5 double ONERADUDE to MR CLINTON.

THIRD: $30 to win on PERFECT MAJESTY. Divide any winnings between MAGGIE O’KEEFE in the fifth and TIERRA VIVA in eighth.

FOURTH: $40 to win on FINNISH ROYALTY. Parlay half of any winnings to ANGEL’S MISTRESS in sixth.

FIFTH: $30 to win on MAGGIE O’KEEFE. Parlay half of any winnings to TIERRA VIVA.

EIGHTH: $20 to win on TIERRA VIVA. $1 trifectas pairing her with every combination of TALK BIG, JENNY JEVON, C L FIB and REGAL’S PRECIOUS twice ($24).

Original bankroll: $2,000.

Saturday’s result: Lost $113.

Sunday’s result: Won $112.

Present bankroll: $1,798.90.