Jockey Bet

[Gander]

Originally Posted by philcski

Yes- because the pool size will struggle to reach 5 digits. If his comments add $2,000 to the field, let's say there was $10K in the pool before that and the field was exactly at the morning line 8-1 at the post (so $930 on the field), there's now $12K in the pool and the new price is 5/2. Make sense now?

Yes, I get it... but dont forget you can't make this bet in NY and thats where most of his followers live and wager. I doubt very much people in NY will make the kind of effort needed to leave the state to make such a trivial bet when you have all the BC races to wager into. I still find it weird people would make a bet solely on one person's opinion. Totally takes all the fun of it away.

I didnt like this bet at first but its kind of a neat idea. If I were to play, I would definetely bet John Velasquez. Hes got all the Pletcher horses and many are very live, albeit they would be much better if this wasnt being run on fake dirt.