Winning Colors - Snap Classic
Snap Judgment
Snap Judgment and PRX
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
She’s stunning grey, sleek as a race car, and stronger than all the boys. Her name is Winning Colors and for Dino and Miami she’s the long shot of a lifetime.
This story contains strong language and includes descriptions of gambling, sensitive listeners please be advised.
If gambling has become a problem for you or for someone you know, you can call 1-800-GAMBLER (426-2537) to seek free, confidential, 24/7 problem gambling assistance.
A huge thank you to Mark “Miami” Paul for sharing his story with Snap!
Wondering what happened to Winning Colors? After her 1988 Kentucky Derby crown the big grey filly retired the following year with eight career wins. In 2000, she was inducted into the U.S. National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. In 2008, at the age of 23 Winning Colors was laid to rest in Lexington, Kentucky.
To find out more about Miami and Winning Colors’ story – check out Miami’s book, “The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told”
Produced by Bo Walsh, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot.
Snap Classic – Season 16– Episode 32
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Shana Shealy. I've been a producer on Snap Judgment for nearly a decade. And years ago, I started following a small group of homeless people in Oakland, California, documenting their epic battle for their own place on their own terms. |
| 0:23.6 | I got totally sucked into this group's drama and I couldn't stop. |
| 0:28.6 | And now, we're finally bringing that story to you. |
| 0:32.6 | A tiny plot, a five-part series about scarcity, survival, and the one thing people in this group |
| 0:40.0 | wanted most. Control over their own lives. A tiny plot, a story told by the people who lived it. |
| 0:49.2 | A tiny plot is out now. Listen on Snap Judgment. |
| 0:53.1 | Thank you. is out now. Listen on Snap Judgment. |
| 1:01.0 | So I want my buddy Simon. |
| 1:07.0 | And Simon tells me that lottery tickets are taxed on the stupid. |
| 1:08.7 | Right? |
| 1:17.1 | Okay, so why are we standing in line to buy lottery tickets? No, no, no. He says, |
| 1:25.0 | we're not buying lottery tickets. We're not? No. What we're buying is a little taste of hope. |
| 1:28.5 | A little taste of what if, a little taste of magic that we can put in our pockets to distract us from the drudgery and the agonies of everyday life. |
| 1:34.0 | That's what we're buying at this gas station. |
| 1:38.6 | Wow. |
| 1:40.4 | All that for the price of a losing ticket, what a bargain. |
| 1:44.0 | But... But... All that for the price of a losing ticket. What a bargain, but... |
| 1:45.0 | But... |
| 1:46.0 | I can't help but think. |
| 1:49.0 | What if we could tip the scales? |
| 1:53.0 | What if we knew a guy who knew a guy? |
| 1:59.0 | Would have just once we could make it so that this wasn't a losing piece of paper after all. |
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