Posted on 04/27/2018 3:42:48 PM PDT by Libloather
2018 Kentucky Derby Odds
The 2018 Kentucky Derby takes place on Saturday May 5 from Churchill Downs, Kentucky.
The first leg of the Triple Crown is known as “The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports” and certain horses are already receiving interest at the betting counter.
Sportsbook.ag is offering up Fixed Odds for the 2018 event and listed below are the early entries that are expected to be part of the 20-horse field.
Odds to win 2018 Kentucky Derby (5/5/18) - per Sportsbook.ag
Justify 5/2
Bolt D'oro 7/2
Magnum Moon 4/1
Mendelssohn 11/2
Audible 6/1
My Boy Jack 6/1
Good Magic 8/1
Vino Rosso 16/1
Enticed 20/1
Hofburg 20/1
Solomini 20/1
Flameaway 25/1
Noble Indy 25/1
Free Drop Billy 35/1
Promises Fulfilled 40/1
Instilled Regard 45/1
Lone Sailor 45/1
Bravazo 50/1
Combatant 50/1
Firenze Fire 75/1
Givemeaminit 75/1
Snapper Sinclair 75/1
Blended Citizen 100/1
Reride 100/1
Restoring Hope 150/1
Sporting Chance 150/1
Dream Baby Dream 200/1
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I enjoy watching folks at fine betting establishments pull a ‘Kramer’ by using their program as a whip. And that’s on a REGULAR day. Oh, and the screaming as if the horse can hear it. Yep, fun.
The KY Derby field has been limited to 20 horses since 1975.
I’m putting my marker on Silver Blaze.
Thanks for posting. The greatest sporting event I’ve ever been to. It was on my 21st birthday in 1971. If you’ve never gone...GO!
Half the fun was watching the people in the infield.
I could go for a piece of Derby Pie right now.
I put $50 something on California Chrome in the Pacific Classic at Del Mar in (August) 2016. I got back $112. He went wire-to-wire and won easily. The 2nd nicest racing day/venue (after the Derby) that I've ever been to.
I think he's retired.
People who go to the infield isn’t there to watch the race. The infield used to be considered just one big party with a horse race going on in the background. I don’t think that has changed any.
BEING in the infield. Me and 2 steelworker buddies from Kentucky slept in sleeping bags outside the gate the night before. We were in as soon as they opened with our cooler full of Little Kings. We were crazy (fit right in) and had a wonderful time.
I don’t see Silver Blaze listed but I don’t know when the field is finally set. From what I was reading, this year has a European qualifier as well as a Japanese entry. I haven’t been paying enough attention to which horses are in or out.
About a month ago, I scored a list of horses that could have money put on them during the first weekend of ‘early betting’. I have to dig that out and compare it to the final contenders.
`Whirlaway was a great name!
I think that horses have a deep symbolic meaning for humans. Our civilizations were built upon the backs of them; and their very “feminine” nature speaks to us in a lot of deep ways.
I found ‘Porterhouse’ in a breeding chart; he seems to have been pretty good, earning a half-million dollars back when that was decent money ;-) But I can’t remember the rest of Lily’s name, so can’t find her or any progeny.
(My husband’s system is to bet on the horse that is the least likely to win. If it wins, we’re golden; if it doesn’t, we’ve lost a few bucks and had a good time - like going to a movie.
I just bet on a name that I like ;-)
I headed out of Louisville on 64 east. If you’re into whiskey, there are plenty of distillerys right on the highway. I’ve never seen anything like it.
By the way: if you’re on a bucking horse, you’ll have to make him ‘whirl’, to get him out of it ;-)
A couple of my relatives were once tending a mare that was taking forever to foal - they were sleeping in the barn in the freezing cold, night after night.
I wanted to name that horse ‘Lightyear’.
Owner didn’t like it...
Isn’t running the Kentucky Derby on Cinco de Mayo a cultural appropriation?
In a race yesterday at Hawthorne in Illinois, two horses than ran were named Hannity and Trumpified.
Very cool ;-)
Hannity won Trumpified was fourth. I have a lot of good memories at Hawthorne.
Illinois racing is in trouble. Any memories of Arlington? Such a historic venue.
So there weren’t 21 horses in the field in 1981?
https://www.kentuckyderby.com/sites/kentuckyderby.com/files/u64720/Field%20Size%20(2013).pdf
You a Tim Conway Jr fan? You heard his “Open em up!” Audio Clip of a guy at the track? Hilarious.
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