Benrik diaries - No 9

I’ve never bet one horses before. I bet on football (soccer) twice when I was about 11, but that’s 22 people and no horses are involved.
I didn’t have the slightest clue as to how things with horses-racing works so I simply told the woman behind the counter that I wanted to place a 1 money bet on a horse in some race and then she said that it wasn’t possible - the least amount of cash I could place was 2.
Fair enough…
I picked horse number 9 to win tomorrow, after all 9 is my favourite number and that’s unrational. What has number 9 ever done for me?