Robert Lowe
Home: Lombard, Ill.
Age: 63
Occupation: Retired millwright
Road to the Finals: Finished third in a field of 185 players and won $1,000 in the Hawthorne Buy-In Handicapping Contest on April 23-25.
Bio: Added a third-place effort in the Hawthorne handicapping contest to his prize mantle, which also includes a first-place trophy in a Musky fishing tournament along with his cousin. Became interested in racing by going to the track with his friends, and now he has also gotten his wife into going to the races. Earned $1,000 for his third-place finish in the Hawthorne qualifier, but that score still takes a backseat to his biggest payoff to date, a winning trifecta wager that returned $3,500.
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