Derby Winner
Posted by: Bradley McDonald
Unfortunately, my boy, Afleet Alex, couldn't pull out a win in the Kentucky Derby Saturday, but he did finish a decent third. The horses that placed first and second were at unbelievable odds to win the race: 50-1 and 70-1, respectively.
Let's put that in perspective. If you would've bet $1 on the top four horses in exact order (called a "Superfecta"), you would've netted an amazing $864,253.50. Apparently, seven people had the insight to make that bet. If only I was a betting man. :)
They call it the Superfecta, the Super. Saturday, in the strangest Derby in a lifetime, that $2 ticket, to anybody who got back on line after the race and handed it to a cashier - under the new-fangled signs at Churchill Downs that read "Wagering Windows" - was worth $1,728,507.00. And anybody who somehow came up with the right horses - the 50-1 winner, followed by the 71-1 longest shot in the race, a sensible 9-2, and another bomb at 29-1 - deserved at least $1,728,507.00.That somebody doesn't exist. There were a grand total of seven winning $1 tickets bet on the Super, and that cut the individual payoff in half, $864,253.50.
