I had Summer Bird on top in a $10 exacta with Mine That Bird in today’s race. The second finisher (Dunkirk) was very nearly DQ’d. The exacta *would have* paid $54. That *would have* been $270 back for a $10 bet.
Remember this from Kentucky Derby day? ...
“Summer Bird is a powerful finisher. He has only 3 prior starts and so is really fresh for this race. Oh, did I mention he’s 50-1 on the program! The odds of course will change as the betting takes place. He’ll probably go down to about 20 or 30 to 1.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2242668/posts?page=23#23
FINALLY after more than an hour, equibase.com posted the Belmont Stakes results: I was delighted it paid that much, since finishers 2,3,and 4 were the only heavily bet horses in the race....so I win probably a little more than $400, but I can’t remember the NYRacing takeout.
And why Summer Bird? Well, going back to the Derby, I believe it was, our very own gate2wire brought him to my attention, and once I thought hard about his past performances, I was eager to include him in these superfectas. I put about $18 into $1 supers, with SBird on top in two of them and other one which exactly reversed
the order of finish 6-7-2-4.
But I’m happy.
Thank you , gate2 wire
And sorry ETL you didn’t have the exacta, which probably paid pretty nicely. But I am not about to get back on Equibase
to find out.
I thought the super full price might not be much more than the Tri. I was happily wrong/