Posted on 05/04/2013 9:04:56 AM PDT by Slump Tester
Lets's start a thread for posting our Derby picks. We need an FR bookie. We can play for told-ya-sos.
I'm a cheapskate who's broke all the time, so I'm only betting on the big race. I'm putting $2 across the boards on "Normandy Invasion" and also $2 across the boards on "Frac Daddy".
I know it's stupid to pick them because you like their names, but every once in a while it works. I picked a horse named "Frisk Me Now" once in some podunk race and it won even though it went off at like 50 or 60:1.
The last time we went to the derby was in 2006, I lost small bets all day Friday at the Oaks and the next day at the derby. I had 6 bucks on a horse in the big race to place that was at 15:1, and he placed and I got almost everything back I had lost. I went home about $15 in the red. Not bad for 2 days of fun.
What was really stupid though was that I had picked the 2rd place horse, and my other half had correctly bet the 1st and 3rd places. If we had combined our picks for a trifecta (just $6), it would have paid out over 11 grand!
LoL I had $10 on Kitteh to show. Think Charming Kitten is still looking for his mitten.
Good thing the alternate, Fear The Kitten didn’t run, I would have lost more lol
I think Golden Soul was the only long shot I didn’t bet on to show. I bet an exacta with orb/itsmyluckyday. I bet around $30 on $2 bets, the only thing I won was a show for revolutionary. Well, Preakness in 2 weeks; we’ll have to exchange notes again! Maybe a 2013 triple crown in the making.
I never called Frisk Me Now a podunk horse. I said it was a podunk race.
Too bad it was today, but likewise the rain was all day and heavy often today.
Anyone reading it would’ve thought so, though! ;-)
YAY for Orb! Looking forward to the Preakness.
Place Horse Jockey Trainer Post 1 Orb Joel Rosario Claude R. McGaughey III 16 2 Golden Soul Robby Albarado Dallas Stewart 4 3 Revolutionary Calvin Borel Todd Pletcher 3 4 Normandy Invasion Javier Castellano Chad Brown 5 5 Mylute Rosie Napravnik Tom Amoss 6 6 Oxbow Gary Stevens D. Wayne Lukas 2 7 Lines of Battle Ryan Moore Aidan O'Brien 11 8 Will Take Charge Jon Court D. Wayne Lukas 17 9 Charming Kitten Edgar Prado Todd Pletcher 15 10 Giant Finish Jose L. Espinoza Anthony W. Dutrow 7 11 Overanalyze Rafael Bejarano Todd Pletcher 9 12 Palace Malice Mike Smith Todd Pletcher 10 13 Java's War Julien Leparoux Kenny McPeek 19 14 Verrazano John R. Velazquez Todd Pletcher 14 15 Itsmyluckyday Elvis Trujillo Eddie Plesa, Jr. 12 16 Frac Daddy Victor Lebron Kenny McPeek 18 17 Goldencents Kevin Krigger Doug O'Neill 8 18 Vyjack Garrett Gomez Rudy Rodriguez 20 19 Falling Sky Luis Saez John Terranova II 13
His system worked pretty damn well last year.. and, I like his logic this year.
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