My first job was at Long acres, let me tell you that place was as corrupt as politics. My older Cousin worked in the turf club as a waiter and knew all of the trainers and the back side workers.

He told me the next day he was going to be getting a hot tip from a very well known trainer that he knew. Came to work the next day and the track was sloppy as heck. My Cousin told me to bet on "Andy's hit man" in the first race. The horse went off at 25-1 odds so I put 20 dollars to win on it, I then wheeled every horse in the second race to win the daily double.

Coming around the final turn the horse was in last place, then it started taking off like a rocket and Won the race! I won around 520.00 for the 20.00 win bet. Now I'm waiting to see what Horse wins the second race....hoping for another long shot because the DD would pay more. The Horse that won was around 9-10 odds and I ended up winning around 600.00 more for the daily double. That's a lot of money for a 16 year old.

I have lots of first hand knowledge of crooked sheet going on there. There was a reason that other tracks around the country would not include Long Acres for off track betting. Even though LA held two world record times for 6 and 6 1/2 furlongs.