NICK'S PICKS, THURSDAY, JUNE 30TH AT COLONIAL DOWNS

If you happened to be hanging around the winner's circle looking for the owner and trainer of yesterday's winners, chances are you were coming up a man short.  Four of yesterday's winners were saddled by their owners.  Starting with the bomb that opened the evening's racing, Fred Tuller 123-1 shot Gavan's Repent,  paid $248.20 on a $2 win ticket.  The win sent Colonial officials scrambling through their archives to see if it was the largest $2 win payout in the tracks 15-year history.   It probably was.

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