2018 Bensell Triple Crown Challenge

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2018 Bensell Triple Crown Challenge

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Sorry guys. To make it easy for derby, you have $20 bucks to bet. See old threads for other rules, but the Derby is the easiest. You MUST best your entire $20.


Types of bets available will be
- Win, Place, Show
- Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta (including Box bets for all exotics)
All bets bust be $2 minimum bet (though you can do $1 exacta/trifecta boxes which make the total bet over $2) with the exception of the Superfecta, which will be a minimum of 0.10

List your bets in order. Since I likely wont be able to double check, and if for some reason you go over the $20, I will take the bets listed in order up to $20 and will reduce/increase last eligible bet if you are over the amount. If your bet is in here by time race goes off it will count.

Final odds will be dictated at post time, below are for reference only.

Post Horse Odds
1 Firenze Fire 50/1
2 Free Drop Billy 30/1
3 Promises Fulfilled 30/1
4 Flameaway 30/1
5 Audible 8/1
6 Good Magic 12/1
7 Justify 3/1
8 Lone Sailor 50/1
9 Hofburg 20/1
10 My Boy Jack 30/1
11 Bolt d'Oro 8/1
12 Enticed 30/1
13 Bravazo 50/1
14 Mendelssohn 5/1
15 Instilled Regard 50/1
16 Magnum Moon 6/1
17 Solomini 30/1
18 Vino Rosso 12/1
19 Noble Indy 30/1
20 Combatant 50/1
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Re: 2018 Bensell Triple Crown Challenge

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I will take $5 win on 11, Bolt D'oro ($5 bet)

$2 Across 16 Magnum Moon ($6 bet)

$1 Exacta Box 7,14,16 ($6 Bet)

$3 Show on 1, Firenze Fire ($3 bet)
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$1 exacta box on 6, 7 and 14 ($6 bet)
$2 ATB on Hofburg ($6 bet)
$2 ATB on Good Magic ($6 bet)
$2 show on Bravazo ($2 bet)
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$20 to win on #9 (hofburg)
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$6 ATB on 18 Vino Rosso
$2 on 7 Justify to win
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Win/Place Audible ($4)
Win Good Magin ($2)
Win Bolt d'Oro ($2)
Win Mendelssohn ($2)
Win Magnum Moon ($2)
Win Vino Rosso ($2)
ATB Justify ($6)
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$6 ATB #5 Audible
$2 win #16 Magnum Moon
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$6 Win/ $4 Place 14-Mendelssohn

$2 Place/Show 12-Enticed

$1 exactor box - 14/12/5 (Audible)
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Muddy track today. Looks like an equalizer.

$4 ATB on Mendelssohn => $12
$2 ATB on Bolt D’Oro => $6
$1 Exacta Box Magnum and Audible => $2
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Tara Lipinski gets hotter every year somehow.
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Bob Costas should have been a jockey.
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$20 on Mendelssohn to win.
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Bsf with twenty to win on audible
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Current situation: on my 6th John Daly which is a much superior Derby Day drink to the mint julip, which is trash.
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Instilled Regard gets 4th to mess up all superfectas
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With benefit of hindsight no idea how I don’t bet on Justify on a horse race in Kentucky.
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degenerasian wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 6:00 pm Instilled Regard gets 4th to mess up all superfectas
Mess up? That paid like a boss. 4th horse should always be longer odds.
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brian wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 6:02 pm With benefit of hindsight no idea how I don’t bet on Justify on a horse race in Kentucky.
Loved the replay showing Smith just waving the whip so the horse could see it.

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brian wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 5:41 pm Current situation: on my 6th John Daly which is a much superior Derby Day drink to the mint julip, which is trash.
I am also not a julep fan. There’s a recipe out there that ends up with throwing all ingredients out but bourbon which sounds right.

But bourbon >>>>>>>>>> vodka
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A_B wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 7:11 pm
brian wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 5:41 pm Current situation: on my 6th John Daly which is a much superior Derby Day drink to the mint julip, which is trash.
I am also not a julep fan. There’s a recipe out there that ends up with throwing all ingredients out but bourbon which sounds right.

But bourbon >>>>>>>>>> vodka
You are right, however the hangover from bourbon is >>>>> vodka.
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Pruitt wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 7:28 pm
A_B wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 7:11 pm
brian wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 5:41 pm Current situation: on my 6th John Daly which is a much superior Derby Day drink to the mint julip, which is trash.
I am also not a julep fan. There’s a recipe out there that ends up with throwing all ingredients out but bourbon which sounds right.

But bourbon >>>>>>>>>> vodka
You are right, however the hangover from bourbon is >>>>> vodka.
Not if you drink bourbon 6 days a week
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A_B wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 8:41 pm
Pruitt wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 7:28 pm
A_B wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 7:11 pm
brian wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 5:41 pm Current situation: on my 6th John Daly which is a much superior Derby Day drink to the mint julip, which is trash.
I am also not a julep fan. There’s a recipe out there that ends up with throwing all ingredients out but bourbon which sounds right.

But bourbon >>>>>>>>>> vodka
You are right, however the hangover from bourbon is >>>>> vodka.
Not if you drink bourbon 6 days a week
I guess it's a vice/versa situation.

But Gin, amirite?
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Standings after Derby

Player - Proceeds (Minimum Bet for Preakness [Half of Proceeds rounded down to nearest $2 plus $20])
Sabo - 50.60 ($44)
WLU_lax - 18.20 ($28)
Rass - $7.80 ($22)
Duff - $5.80 ($22)
Pruitt - 0 ($20)
Ljam - 0 ($20)
Brian - 0 ($20)
Sancarlos - 0 ($20)
BSF - 0 ($20)
AB - 0 ($20)


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2018 Preakness Stakes Field

Post — Horse (Jockey; Trainer; Vegas Odds- final odds are determined at post time by Pimlico)

1 — Quip (Florent Geroux; Rodolphe Brisset; 16-1)

2 — Lone Sailor (Irad Ortiz; Thomas Amoss; 25-1)

3 — Sporting Chance (Luis Contreras; D. Wayne Lukas; 22-1)

4 — Diamond King (Javier Castellano; John Servis; 16-1)

5 — Good Magic (Jose Ortiz; Chad Brown; 3-1)

6 — Tenfold (Ricardo Santana Jr.; Steve Asmussen; 25-1)

7 — Justify (Mike Smith; Bob Baffert; 2-5)

8 — Bravazo (Luis Saez; D. Wayne Lukas; 18-1)

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1-7-8 trifecta boxed for $1 each ($6)
#4 to win ($14)
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I am putting my whole nut on Good Magic to Win or Place.
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 10:49 am I am putting my whole nut on Good Magic to Win or Place.
So half to win and half to place? Or all to place? Technically a place bet is a Win or Place bet, so just want to clarify.
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A_B wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 10:56 am
wlu_lax6 wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 10:49 am I am putting my whole nut on Good Magic to Win or Place.
So half to win and half to place? Or all to place? Technically a place bet is a Win or Place bet, so just want to clarify.
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 10:59 am
A_B wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 10:56 am
wlu_lax6 wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 10:49 am I am putting my whole nut on Good Magic to Win or Place.
So half to win and half to place? Or all to place? Technically a place bet is a Win or Place bet, so just want to clarify.
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sancarlos wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 5:20 pm $20 on Mendelssohn to win.
Mendelssohn is about to hit the finish line at Churchill Downs, any second now!
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$2 - Tenfold to Show
The rest on Good Magic to Win
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sancarlos wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 11:14 am
sancarlos wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 5:20 pm $20 on Mendelssohn to win.
Mendelssohn is about to hit the finish line at Churchill Downs, any second now!
Ha! He was my choice too.

He was so good that it took 19 horses to beat him.

$2 Exactor box 2/7 ($4)

$2 Exactor box 2/5 ($4)

$4 ATB (2) ($12)
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$2 Trifecta Key - 7/5,1,2 ($12)

$2 ATB 4 ($6)

$2 Superfecta 7-3-5-1
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$5 exacta box 4-5-7 ($30)
$2 ATB on 2 ($6)
$2 ATB on 6 ($6)
$2 win on 7 ($2)
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brian wrote: Sat May 05, 2018 4:16 pm Tara Lipinski gets hotter every year somehow.
I think she’s finally legal.
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Everything on Justify to win.
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$2 Justify to win
$2 Good Magic ATB
$2 Diamond King ATB
$2 Bravaso ATB
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7-5-4 Boxed for 1$ (6)
6 ATB for 2$ (6)
3 ATB for 2$ (6)
7-5 exacta both ways for 1$ each (2)
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I’m texting that to AB on principle.
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$20 on a 5-7 exacta. Good Magic!
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