Shoulda bet a grand…

Before the race on Sunday, I asked my wife how upset she’d be if I put a $1000 on the trifecta I posted on my March 7 blog entry. A trifecta, for those unfamiliar with horse racing, is a “parimutuel bet in which the bettor must predict which horses will finish first, second, and third in exact order. The word comes from the related betting term, ‘perfecta.’” Well, I totally called it.

“Stoner first, Lorenzo second, Pedrosa third.” Read it here and weep: http://motogpinsider.blogspot.com/. Goddamn I love being right. What I don’t love is considering the money I could have won, had I the balls to make a ridiculous bet like that. Putting down a grand on a trifecta, depending on the odds, would have easily been a seven figure payout, especially since there was a rookie making his MotoGP debut under the strange and untested floodlights (untested in race conditions, that is). But I don’t mean to use this space as a place to gloat, because no one wants to read that.

So now we have a three-week break to analyze, critique, ridicule, speculate and WAIT for the next contest at Jerez. To kill some time, I found some great videos of England’s sole MotoGP hope and his band “Crash” doing a cover of Gun’s n Roses’ “Sweet Child o Mine”. He actually sounds pretty good. But good lord does this guy take himself seriously. 

Next installment, I'll give my spot on prediction to Jerez top three. I welcome anyone else's picks, too.