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As a child he either forgot or didn’t bother to submit a quiniela coupon for Spain’s equivalent of the football pools, only for all 14 of his father’s predictions to come in.

The last quiniela over, plainly weary she gathered a cloak about her shoulders and left the box, without, as I had hoped, some last gesture or even a word: and I pictured her sitting listlessly, distraught, in the caf� to which they were proceeding.

A quiniela followed, with six contestants, one against the other in successive pairs; but my eyes were now definitely exhausted by the necessarily shifting gaze, and my interest fastened on the woman beside me.

Some of the more affluent, like Businessman Jos� Martinez, can afford to lose repeatedly when they "wheel a Quiniela" for $6�track talk for placing a bet on three combinations of three competitors picked to win, place and show.