The harness trotter Pay Me To Knight (also known as “Junior”) hasn’t raced in the past three weeks. Two weeks ago, the day’s races were cancelled due to a snowstorm. Last week was Easter Sunday, so the trotters weren’t racing that afternoon. But the trotters are back on Sunday, so I need to get my $20 on Junior to win.
Now, as I would normally do, I went to the saratogacasino.com website to see track announcer Mike Sardella’s predictions, and whether he would actually give Pay Me To Knight some love in the sixth race (he’s in post position #3, a decent spot).
Okay, here I am at the Saratogacasino.com site, and …
This screen came up.
Um … interesting …
But I’m more tech savvy than this. I went to my Firefox web browser and directly updated the system, rather than clicking on some random link. Who knows? Maybe this Firefox browser is out of date.
Went back to Saratogacasino.com and …
Okay, now this is extremely suspicious.
Let’s try something. I have Microsoft Edge on my computer. I don’t use it that often, but there are moments when it comes in handy.
Went back to Saratogacasino.com and …
That confirms it. The Saratogacasino.com website has been compromised.
Look, I could go to the site and view it with my Google Chrome browser, but I’m sure the results are the same. I could even try my 25-year-old copy of Netscape and see what happens. But I’m sure it’s the same result.
I called the casino and told them of the issue. They told me that they would investigate the matter.
Meanwhile, I ran another virus check on my computer. You can never be too careful these days. For all I know, some chud might try to use computer malware to crack into my credit cards and banking information, drain my accounts, and give all the money to Donald Trump. Nuh-uh. Ain’t happening. Not on my watch.
So I have absolutely no idea what Mike Sardella has to say about Pay Me To Knight this week. But I suspect he basically ignored Junior again, probably has him finishing in 5th place or something.
No matter. I can go to my online saratogabets.com site (a totally different website) and put $20 of my remaining $55 bankroll on Junior’s nose.
Let’s go from there. Start the race.
The race starts, and Junior takes the quarter-pole in fifth out of eight horses. And it gets worse from there. Junior tries to come up on the outside at the halfway mark, but there’s just no speed there today. He drifts back to last place, even breaks stride for a moment … but today was just a $20 toss in the toilet. Ugh.
For what it’s worth, an 11-1 shot named Snowpiercer won the race. Mr. Wilford will be pleased. 😀
But I have to hope that the only thing that held Juniro back this week was three weeks of inactivity. He’ll do better next week, for sure.
At least I hope he will. $20 says he will.
Chuck The Writer 
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