May 05, 2005

Oh, and if anyone knows how to set up a friendly Debry pool, let me know. My Dad's in charge for some gathering he's going to, but he has no idea how to make that work.

posted by 86 at 08:38 AM on May 05, 2005

Thought this was a post about 'Lost' - Greater Good, my ass. You club me over the head with a 2x4, you best have a better excuse than 'for the greater good'!!!! I like the underdog-favorite, whoever that turns out to be.

posted by garfield at 02:02 PM on May 05, 2005

Who's Tobey Maguire riding this year? I'm with him. Along those same lines I'll take Gary Stevens on Noble Causeway...why not?

posted by chris2sy at 10:59 PM on May 05, 2005

Pat Day's streak of riding in 21 consecutive Derbies will end Saturday. The Hall of Fame reinsman has been recovering from hip surgery all spring and declined to accelerate his rehabilitation to go postward in KD 131.

posted by 86 at 11:09 AM on May 06, 2005

Oh, and if anyone knows how to set up a friendly Debry pool, let me know. My Dad's in charge for some gathering he's going to, but he has no idea how to make that work. The best way to do it is give each person $100 imaginary dollars to wager (per entry). Then they can spread it across as many multiple-of-$10 wagers they want, and use the final odds to determine who wins the pool. (they usually show them at the end of the race...based on a $2 wager, so multiply by 5 to get the $10-wager payoff) So a person could put $20 on Wilko to place, $50 on Bellamy Road to win and $10 each on 3 other horses to show. All $100 must be wagered, and if they want to wager $10 on 10 different horses to win, they can. But it will probably lose money with a wagering system like that unless the super-long-shot wins. In which case, someone else will probably have wagered MORE than $10 on them...

posted by grum@work at 03:43 PM on May 06, 2005

I don't know, grum. I'm pretty sure a lot of people would just blow their imaginary dollars on imaginary hookers and imaginary coke. I bet all of my imaginary dollars on Afleet Alex, btw. I was all coked up, with these two hookers, and we met a guy who knows some things. I mean, knows some things. Afleet Alex.

posted by Samsonov14 at 04:32 PM on May 06, 2005

Afleet Alex. All the way. And gimme a jumbo lemonade.

posted by lil_brown_bat at 04:38 PM on May 07, 2005

I know this is relatively low on the list of things people care about in re: the Derby, but -- that was a hell of a good race.

posted by chicobangs at 11:52 AM on May 09, 2005

I was hoping we'd have a 3-horse dead heat at the end there. Or at least between the two longshots (50-1 and 72-1). That would have created some anxious moments...

posted by grum@work at 03:08 PM on May 10, 2005