What's your biggest loss ever?

[mister zesterhouse]

Horses only (market, futures, poker, NC2A Football doesn't count).

[Mister Sanderson]

About 5 years ago, i had a pick 3 going at churchill. I was up a nice amount of money and i loved a 10-1 to start it. so my first thought was to play him straight up around $50-$80 win ticket.. but i looked ahead to the next race and realized that i loved a horse (Boonesville, I remeber his name) as much or more than the first.. so i thought why not, i'll split up my bet between the win ticket and the pick three... well, i sort of did that .. i put $25 to win on the horse and another $65 into the pick 3. I played 1 x 1 x 6 horses for about an $8 pick three wheel, 1 x 1 x 3 other horses on a $2 wheel, 1 x 1 x 1 (the favorite with Day aboard) for a $15 straight ticket... My first key won nicely, i remember thinking i was crazy to key this 10-1 then turn back around keying Boonesville at 15-1 program, when i couldve taken more to win on the first horse or played a tri or something.. NEXT RACE Boonesville wins at 12-1. So I've got two $20 + dollar horses keyed.. I remember that the cheapest one by far was Day's horse,, but with the $15 pick 3 ticket I was still gonna clear $7800. LONG STORY SHORT .. I left out 1 horse trained by J.K. Aubrey (who now is well known around the ky circuit), he destroyed the field and paid around $269.00 to win.... THE PICK THREE PAID $29,600 for a $2 ticket. I was stunned and those around me rooting me on were speechless.. MORAL: 2 KEYS AT 10-1 in a PICK 3, go ahead a lock up the final leg with an all... at least for a buck.. THAT PUT ME ON TILT FOR A LONG TIME.. tough one to take:eek:

[ken]

$100.00; that is the max bet so far.

[Chuck]

Over a decade ago, I lost twenty thousand in a race a Saratoga on one of my own horses. Ok....that's bad, but it gets worse. The horse gets loose going back to the barn and kicks in the entire side of a new 928 I had just bought two days earlier.....then gets colic and runs up a 5k bill before dying after a second operation. I'd understand all that if she was the 6 horse in the 6th race on the 6th of August...but no, it came straight out of left field. The only thing that could have been worse was if my girlfriend had left me that afternoon for the hot dog vendor.

[vicmac]

two years ago at lone star park, ther was a big gray running at sam houston on the simual cast. and i really liked him in the post parade, and i was up already 660 dollars.I was very new to the game and dident check my ticket at the window.but i went up to the teller and said i want 80-to win and place on the 11. and the race goes off and he went gate to wire on the field. and he payed 68 to win and 18 to place, and the lady gave me a 80-to win and place on the 11 at evgaline downs.:mad: i was so pissed off i never been to a teller again!!!!!!!I learned how to make my bets threw the tote machine.:mad: :mad: why did i bet the grey????????I always bet grey:)

[vicmac]

Over a decade ago, I lost twenty thousand in a race a Saratoga on one of my own horses. Ok....that's bad, but it gets worse. The horse gets loose going back to the barn and kicks in the entire side of a new 928 I had just bought two days earlier.....then gets colic and runs up a 5k bill before dying after a second operation. I'd understand all that if she was the 6 horse in the 6th race on the 6th of August...but no, it came straight out of left field. The only thing that could have been worse was if my girlfriend had left me that afternoon for the hot dog vendor.
man, thats funny. you have me cracking up in dallas:p

[trifecta mark]

Opportunity loss.....when Medaglia d'Oro didn't get by that "one time wonder" in New York that day by a nose in the photo.....i figure I got beat out of about $40 k. I decided the night before at five or six to one that I was going to single the colt in every paramutual pool available. I thought he was much the best and ready. I believed he would win that race 70% of the time. I even had that 60-1 longshot {I can't bear to even say or spell his name} second so I would have had everything! Pic 3, pick 4, pick 6, win, exacta, trifecta and superfecta.

[mister zesterhouse]

Let me see if I can make anybody throw-up:

This past summer at Del Mar I had a couple of good-looking bookend keys to start the card. I had about 50 bucks with me: I bet a $4 PIC 3 Wheel (PVAL - 4 HORSES - VICTOR) for 48 of those bucks. *(My mistake I used 3 horses instead of a key in the first leg). PVAL scores at 5-1 comfortably (3 or 4 lengths); one of my four, Sadler's old horse, Hasty Kris, wins the next in a wide open race at 4-1; and Victor scores on a 9-2 morning line that got off at 9-2 (Art Sherman trained).

The $1 paid about $400, I was looking at a cool $1600, when I went to cash. Still shaking I handed the teller my ticket; then there was an unexpected 'beep' by the machine instead of the expected 'kchunk'.

Teller says, 'not a winner,' and puts her head back down in her Joyce Meyer. I knew I had screwed myself. I played the wrong numbers in the middle leg. I played a 30-1 rat that got last and I knew had no chance instead of Sadler's horse. Always check your tickets.:)

[Mister Sanderson]

Over a decade ago, I lost twenty thousand in a race a Saratoga on one of my own horses. Ok....that's bad, but it gets worse. The horse gets loose going back to the barn and kicks in the entire side of a new 928 I had just bought two days earlier.....then gets colic and runs up a 5k bill before dying after a second operation. I'd understand all that if she was the 6 horse in the 6th race on the 6th of August...but no, it came straight out of left field. The only thing that could have been worse was if my girlfriend had left me that afternoon for the hot dog vendor.

look at the bright side, at least it was the trumpet player and not the hotdog vendor she left with!!!

[mop38]

I can tell you about big losses on stocks, but that's not for this forum.

I can tell you about a big stock gain which bought me a racehorse, and that's within bounds.

I claimed Monopilizer in early winter 1993. Four grand plus 6% sales tax.

He had some good races, and it wasn't all that bad, except a few races at
Delaware Park.

One day our jockey comes back after a bad race. My trainer asks..."So, what went wrong?" His answer..."The mane stunk". My tainer said that was a new one he never heard in all his years of training.

So we changed jocks. (Believe me, Monoplizer saw the league of nations on his back).

Monopolizer was vanned back from Atlantic City, having won on grass there.

He soon gets enterred in an easy dirt race. (I figured he could get no worse than second). Comes post time, and I hear an announcement that he's scratched. The jockey looks up at me and tears the number off his sleeve in disgust. (Bewildered, and thinking he's physically off, the next thing I hear is my trainer swearing to himself). After some twenty years of trusting the van driver with foal papers, this one time the van driver left the foal papers at Atlantic City). And that, my dear racing fans, is one lost opportunity!

And so, as we procced, let's hope we all have better luck!

Hah? You betcha!