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Our advice: Always bet on a horse to place. Don’t go for all the money, or for the fancy bets. So much better than Kentucky Derby or bigtime racing, this is horse racing where you can stand feet from the horses and smell the . . um, victory.
First post at 7:15 pm. Crook County Fairgrounds, 590 SE Lynn Blvd, Prineville. $5.

This article appears in Jul 4-10, 2014.

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PICK: Horse racing!

by Phil Busse, The Source - Bend, Oregon
July 11, 2014

<h1>PICK: Horse racing!</h1> <p class="byline">by Phil Busse, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />July 11, 2014</p> <p>Our advice: Always bet on a horse to place. Don’t go for all the money, or for the fancy bets. So much better than Kentucky Derby or bigtime racing, this is horse racing where you can stand feet from the horses and smell the . . um, victory. <br />First post at 7:15 pm. Crook County Fairgrounds, 590 SE Lynn Blvd, Prineville. $5.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/pick-horse-racing-2350692/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=30734&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/pick-horse-racing-2350692/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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