Sunday’s 20-cent jackpot hi-5 at Woodbine for $72,210 USD was taken down by a U.S. bettor with an Elite Turf Club account. It was one of many tickets the player purchased, says Woodbine’s communications manager Mark McKelvie, but Bettor’s Edge has discovered a very interesting angle that could have worked to win it.

The top seven best Tomlinson turf figures in the 11-horse field could have been boxed at a cost of $504 to win the huge jackpot. But here’s the rub: The race was taken off the turf, so you’d think those figures wouldn’t work … or would they? It should be remembered that synthetic surfaces are considered “near-turf” in such countries as Australia and England. Horses go from turf to synthetic with impunity.

So it couldn’t be a surprise to some players that the original best Tomlinson turf figures worked to take down the $72K. It wasn’t an easy sequence. The odds of the top five finishers were 5-1, 32-1, 7-1, 5-1 and 42-1. The favourite was nowhere to be found. The turf Tomlinson figures for those five horses were 380, 353, 401, 360 and 359. Those figures are shown in the Daily Racing Form in the top right corner of the past performance lines.

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