While lots has been said about Smolin and Eckley getting the band back together something slipped under the radar.
Smolin was directly involved in another single payout in the late PK4 that paid $31,749.15!

I don't know if IRA had this whole PK4 pool or not?

What did Booby do?

He was the favorite in leg2 on Eckley's horse Bugatti Beauty.

Yall remember Booby pulling right before the very slow 58.0 half and hanging.

Then backing into the 2nd tier around the turn finishing dead fucking last...9th by 16!

Riddle me this Batman?

Why would the previous owner(s) In To Win Racing Inc sell Bugatti Beauty to Dean Eckley after winning 8 of 13 races this year while finishing 2nd twice and banking $33,450.00?

Zach Tackett (.444) was training and Bugatti Beauty had won 5 of her last 6 races with 4 of them in 1:53!

That's a strange horse to give up when she was in a $12K claimer racing for $10K and winning with ease.

Then Eckley brings her to Hawthorne to race for less money and back through the field in a PK4 sequence.

History is repeating itself right out in the open and the same old con men are involved again.

Are we headed for a new streak of PK4's paying out to a single winner?

I would ask IRA but he's disappeared since taking down that $70K at Balmoral.
