Today is Friday, Feb 22, 2013. I put in a conditional wager today at FGX at 5/2 odds at 0 MTP. The horse won but they left it green all day and didn't pay it. The closing odds on my bet was 5/2 and I do not know what zero to post time odds were. I called Twin Spires this evening and the lady sent my bet to a higher support level because she did not know what went wrong. She called me back and told me that higher level person said that my condition was 5/2 and odds at 0 MTP was 7/2 and I told her that means the bet goes because it's higher than 5/2 minimum odds. She said she would call me back again after talking to someone again. The next call she read off some military times and told me I had past posted the bet so it didn't go. I asked why the system didn't kick it back with an error message that "betting was closed" and she said the computer system was down for a time today. I told her the system wouldn't accept any bets if it was down. She said they would credit my amount bet and cancel the bet.
I can understand why they don't want to pay because the pool has settled and it's too late unless they care about "good will". She will email me some post times and what time I made the bet but I really don't think I'll collect on this one. I realize that zero minutes to post the odds might have been lower than 5/2 and then my bet wouldn't have gone but then I would have seen "Failed" in the records. I thought about asking you guys if anyone else bet that race and remembered the 0 MTP odds but they have already stated 7/2 so and they just aren't going to pay regardless of conditions or past post records that might be in my favor. The moral of the story might be to use 1 minute to post or greater rather than zero MTP.