When Meadowlands Racetrack announced the beginning of the Winter Meet Survival Challenge on Feb. 6, I wanted to see if I could repeat the success I’d had in surviving to Day 51 in Remington Park’s Thoroenduro fantasy horseracing contest using only intuition. The quick answer was “no.”
Playing as StarGirl, I did make it to Day 15, and was one of 985 remaining in the game–4,416 had already been disqualified! I made selections based solely on intuition. I went out ranked 472nd, with fantasy winnings of $229 for my mythical bets of $135 in the 15 race days (3 bets X 3 races each day). I was disqualified the second race day when none of my selections finished in the money. (On Day 14, my last winning day, I was ranked 352nd!)
To make a fair comparison, I did have twice the number of “Lucky Horseshoes” in the Thoroenduro challenge, so I had four days without winners before I was disqualified in that contest.