Pool 1 of Kentucky Derby Future Wager opens Thursday for 20th time

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The 20th year of Churchill Downs offering parimutuel futures on the Kentucky Derby starts Thursday when the first of four pools toward the 2018 Derby opens at noon Eastern.

The usual parameters apply: 23 separately listed wagering interests, along with a mutuel field that has closed as the Pool 1 favorite every year since Churchill first unveiled the Kentucky Derby Future Wager in 1999. Win and exacta wagering are available, with odds and will-pays locked in only when the pool closes Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern following four days of wagering.

As expected, the field (No. 24) is listed as the 7-5 favorite on the Churchill morning line for Pool 1, followed by Good Magic (8-1), Bolt D’Oro (10-1), and Solomini (15-1), with the rest set at higher odds.

The Kentucky Derby Sires Future Wager, with the mutuel field as a 4-1 morning-line choice, will coincide with Pool 1. This is the third year for the sires wager.

Six separately listed horses are expected to run Saturday at Churchill in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, the only notable 2-year-old stakes to be run while Pool 1 is open. Those horses are Enticed, Givemeaminit, Gotta Go, Lone Sailor, Quip, and Tiz Mischief. The odds on those horses are certain to change before betting closes according to how they run in the Kentucky Jockey Club.

Pool 2 is set for Feb. 9-11, Pool 3 for March 9-11, and Pool 4 for April 6-8. The Kentucky Oaks Future Wager will coincide with Pool 3.

Last year, combined handle was $221,801 on Pool 1 and $44,150 on the sires futures. The eventual Derby winner, Always Dreaming, was part of the Pool 1 field, which closed as the 6-5 favorite. Aggregate handle for all four pools toward the 2017 Derby was $1,409,856.

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The record for handle in a single pool is $631,304, set in 2012, while the record for aggregate handle in a single year was $1,665,990 in 2005.

Real-time odds and will-pays are available through various modes, including on television monitors at tracks and wagering outlets, as well as at kentuckyderby.com.

In the case of field horses filling both exacta slots, the next-best finish by a separately listed horse will count toward the winning combination.

Composition of the 23-horse futures lineups are decided by a Churchill panel led by Ben Huffman, John Asher, and Darren Rogers.

The 144th Kentucky Derby will be run May 5, 2018.

KENTUCKY DERBY FUTURE WAGER POOL 1
	Horse	Trainer	Odds
1.	Avery Island	K. McLaughlin	30-1
2.	Bolt d'Oro	M. Ruis	10-1
3.	Copper Bullet	S.Asmussen	30-1
4.	Dak Attack	D.Romans	30-1
5.	Engage	C.Brown	20-1
6.	Enticed	K.McLaughlin	30-1
7.	Firenze Fire	J.Servis	20-1
8.	Free Drop Billy	D.Romans	20-1
9.	Givemeaminit	D.Stewart	50-1
10.	Good Magic	C.Brown	8-1
11.	Gotta Go	I.Wilkes	30-1
12.	Lone Sailor	T.Amoss	50-1
13.	Mask1	C.Brown	30-1
14.	McKinzie	B.Baffert	20-1
15.	Mendelssohn	A.O'Brien	30-1
16.	Montauk	T.Pletcher	20-1
17.	Principe Guilherme	S.Asmussen	20-1
18.	Quip, R.Brisset	R.Brisset	30-1
19.	Solomini	B.Baffert	15-1
20.	Sporting Chance	W.Lukas	20-1
21.	Talent Scout	B.Baffert	30-1
22.	Tiz Mischief	D.Romans	50-1
23.	Untamed Domain	G.Motion	20-1
24.	Mutuel field		7-5

KENTUCKY DERBY SIRE WAGER
	Sire	Odds
1.	Bernardini	20-1
2.	Bodemeister	20-1
3.	Candy Ride	20-1
4.	Curlin	8-1
5.	Distorted Humor	20-1
6.	Ghostzapper	20-1
7.	Giant's Causeway	30-1
8.	Into Mischief	20-1
9.	Malibu Moon	30-1
10.	Medaglia d'Oro	12-1
11.	More Than Ready	20-1
12.	Overanalyze	30-1
13.	Pioneerof the Nile	20-1
14.	Quality Road	20-1
15.	Scat Daddy	15-1
16.	Speightstown	20-1
17.	Street Sense	15-1
18.	Tapit	10-1
19.	Tiznow	20-1
20.	Uncle Mo	20-1
21.	Union Rags	30-1
22.	Violence	30-1
23.	War Front	15-1
24.	Mutuel field	4-1