Here are the top five finishers, with available mutuel prices from the 145th Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs in which Maximum Security was disqualified from first and placed 17th for interference.
Country House became the winner of the 145th Kentucky Derby Saturday before a crowd of 150,729 at Churchill Downs when Maximum Security, who crossed the wire first, was disqualified for interference leaving the final turn.
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With about $900,000 in the win pool as of 8 p.m. Eastern on Friday, the odds for the 19 entrants for Saturday's Kentucky Derby are taking shape. Everyone has a different take on what makes a horse an underlay or an overlay, but here's one way to view the early prices from the standpoint of value.
Here are the $1 Kentucky Oaks/Kentucky Derby double will pays with Oaks winner Serengeti Empress ($28):
If you don't like the favorite for the Kentucky Derby, wait a minute, it's likely to change. With morning-line favorite Omaha Beach scratched on Thursday, the wide-open nature of Saturday’s Kentucky Derby is reflected in the early wagering.
The most notoriously poor post in the Derby is 1. The last horse to win the Derby from the rail was Ferdinand in 1986. That seems like a long time between wins, but given the field size in the Derby, the expected number of winners (without even accounting for post-time odds) from the rail since Ferdinand’s score isn’t much higher than the actual number. In fact, the Kentucky Derby media guide shows horses from post 1 winning the Derby at a 9-percent clip and finishing in the money 20.2 percent of the time since the race began starting from a gate in 1930.
Haikal, the Grade 3 Gotham winner and third-place finisher in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial, will scratch from Saturday’s $3 million Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs due to an abscess on his left front foot, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said Friday morning.
The late all-stakes pick four Saturday at Churchill Downs – not the late, late pick four which encompasses the last four races on the Derby Day card and is not an all-stakes affair – is a juicy sequence.
Something new is on the wagering menu for Oaks and Derby Days at Churchill Downs: a two-day pick six that covers all the Grade 1 action. Friday’s races are the La Troienne and Kentucky Oaks, followed by the Humana Distaff, Churchill Downs, Old Forester, and Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
