Nine new names are in the lineup for Pool 3 of the 2018 Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which opens Friday at noon Eastern for the customary three-day run. Pool 3 runs concurrent to the lone annual Kentucky Oaks Future Wager. The mutuel field, the 24th or “all others” option, and Bolt d’Oro have been pegged as 6-1 co-favorites for Pool 3 by Churchill Downs linemaker Mike Battaglia. They are followed by Audible, McKinzie, and Promises Fulfilled, all at 8-1. Good Magic, who finished third in the Fountain of Youth last Saturday, is 15-1 on the early line after having closed at 8-1 in Pool 2. Many of the individually listed horses in Pool 3 will be in action Saturday in one of three Kentucky Derby preps – the Tampa Bay Derby, Gotham, and San Felipe – and it’s typically best for players to wait to make wagers involving those horses until after results are known, since odds are not locked in until the pools close. Pool 3 closes Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern and the Oaks pool closes 30 minutes later. New names for Pool 3 are Bravazo, Flameaway, Gold Town, Justify, Kanthaka, Magnum Moon, My Boy Jack, Noble Indy, and Vino Rosso. Pool 2 individuals now relegated to the field are Copper Bullet, Enticed, Firenze Fire, Mask, Mourinho, Principe Guilherme, Retirement Fund, Tiz Mischief, and Untamed Domain. :: Just reduced! Save on The Road to the Kentucky Derby Player's Package The field closed as the 6-5 favorite in Pool 1, which was held Nov. 23-26 in tandem with the Derby Sires Future Wager, and as the 5-2 favorite for Pool 2, which ran Feb. 9-11. The fourth and final Derby pool will be held April 6-8. Combined Pool 1 handle was $250,259, with another $42,953 bet in the Sires wager. Handle for Pool 2 was $521,649, up 58 percent from the corresponding pool in 2017. Last year, combined handle on Pool 3 was $373,354, up 14 percent over the corresponding pool of 2016. 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. As for the Oaks, which lost one of its early favorites when Fly So High was declared from consideration early this week, the lukewarm morning-line choice is Monomoy Girl at 5-1, followed by Dream Tree (6-1), Midnight Bisou (6-1), the field (8-1), and Caledonia Road (10-1). Handle on the Oaks futures last year was $100,335, down less than 4 percent from 2016. Win and exacta wagering are available. 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. In addition to win and exacta betting, an Oaks/Derby Future Double is being offered for the first time. The Kentucky Oaks Future Wager, which includes the Oaks/Derby Future Double, will close a half-hour later than the KDFW at 6:30 p.m. The Oaks will be run May 4 and the Derby on May 5. This is the 20th year that Churchill has offered parimutuel futures.