Here is my (imaginary) wager: $5 on Wilko to show. $5 on Bellamy Road to show. $5 on a Wilko/High Fly/Bellamy Road trifecta. $5 on Sun King to win (just in case I bomb out above).
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...
thanks for that link, 86.
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.
I'm pretty sure a lot of people would just blow their imaginary dollars on imaginary hookers and imaginary coke. For only $100 imaginary dollars, I figure the imaginary coke would actually be imaginary baking soda and the imaginary hookers would be a couple of imaginary Times Square "veterans"....
Afleet Alex. All the way. And gimme a jumbo lemonade.
Guess not. Great, now I'm imaginarily broke. And also broke in real life. Insult to injury.
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.
right on. glad you said so. it looked like a NASCAR race, with 5 or 6 wide at one point.
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...
