Zap women split lottery game prize

Thursday, March 02, 2006 posted 09:01 PM EST

BISMARCK, N.D. - Two women who spend $36 monthly on lottery tickets are splitting a $588,954 jackpot from the Wild Card 2 game.

Gail Barden and Rachel Horning, both of Zap, said Thursday they recently bought new homes and will pay off their mortgages with the money, which adds up to $204,544 after state and federal taxes are withheld.

Barden runs the T&G Grocery in Zap with her husband, Terry. Horning and her husband, Steve, are ranchers, and Rachel Horning works at Union State Bank in Zap.

The two women take turns once a month buying tickets for the North Dakota Lottery's four games at the Farmers Union Oil Co. in Beulah. The numbers drawn Wednesday for the Wild Card 2 game were the lucky ones. The game has drawings on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

The Beulah business will get a $2,000 bonus payment for selling the ticket, said Chuck Keller, the lottery's director.

Rachel Horning said she called her husband on his cell phone when she learned she had won, and he was pricing a used four-wheeler for the ranch. He bought his wife a new one to celebrate.

Both women said they will keep working. "The bank wouldn't let me leave today until I promised I would come back to work," Horning said.

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