The First Saturday In May
The Kentucky Derby is today, and I'll be watch and my money is down.
I've looked at the past performances and seen most of last races and more than a few of their last workouts. A mile and a quarter is five times the length of classic distance in quarter horse racing. Not unlike the difference between drag racing other car races.
Horses are neither motorcycles or race cars and I could make a positive comment about almost all the horses in the race.
In fact about a month ago, I made selections in the race knowing it was a possibility that the horse or horses might not even get in the race.
I wouldn't be surprised if $185,000,000 were bet legally from all sources on the race and a very small amount of it came from Miami. With the possibility of 20 horses running in the race the possibilities are almost endless and I don't think California Chrome is the second coming of Secretariat.
I'm boxing the 4,5,6,20 in Exactas and Keying the 6,20/3,4,5,6,20/3,4,5,6,20/3,4,5,6,20 in the Superfecta and hoping lightning strikes. As a famous gambler once said: "I hope I break even, I need the money".
You won't win if you don't play. I doubt I will ever see the Derby in person. Hunter Thompson wrote about it and probably a lot of it was crap but probably enough of it was close enough to the truth that it, like many other events are better seen on TV and from a distance.
And so it goes.
I've looked at the past performances and seen most of last races and more than a few of their last workouts. A mile and a quarter is five times the length of classic distance in quarter horse racing. Not unlike the difference between drag racing other car races.
Horses are neither motorcycles or race cars and I could make a positive comment about almost all the horses in the race.
In fact about a month ago, I made selections in the race knowing it was a possibility that the horse or horses might not even get in the race.
I wouldn't be surprised if $185,000,000 were bet legally from all sources on the race and a very small amount of it came from Miami. With the possibility of 20 horses running in the race the possibilities are almost endless and I don't think California Chrome is the second coming of Secretariat.
I'm boxing the 4,5,6,20 in Exactas and Keying the 6,20/3,4,5,6,20/3,4,5,6,20/3,4,5,6,20 in the Superfecta and hoping lightning strikes. As a famous gambler once said: "I hope I break even, I need the money".
You won't win if you don't play. I doubt I will ever see the Derby in person. Hunter Thompson wrote about it and probably a lot of it was crap but probably enough of it was close enough to the truth that it, like many other events are better seen on TV and from a distance.
And so it goes.
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