Oxbow

[lb1064]

Was anyone expecting the tri payout to be larger? Not that $1030 is great, but just thought it would be bigger, especially with oxbow being second highest odds. I can only assume lots of people had him in their tri box.

[Travis Stone]

Originally Posted by lb1064

Was anyone expecting the tri payout to be larger? Not that $1030 is great, but just thought it would be bigger, especially with oxbow being second highest odds. I can only assume lots of people had him in their tri box.

I did. 9 horse field didn't help, plus I don't think Orb was getting bet hard in the win pool. I could look up the pool data to see for sure, will do that tomorrow.

[lb1064]

If I remember correctly, the yr looking at looking at lucky won it was higher and I think it had the same number of horses. It didn't have a 3/5 ml fav but I think that would be an advantage. Just thought that was a yr comparable, just seemed a little strange to me.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by lb1064

If I remember correctly, the yr looking at looking at lucky won it was higher and I think it had the same number of horses. It didn't have a 3/5 ml fav but I think that would be an advantage. Just thought that was a yr comparable, just seemed a little strange to me.

12 horse field versus a 9 horse field. With 12 horses there's 1320 possible trifecta combinations and with 9 horses there's only 504 combinations. I also thought it was light but that's probably the main reason.

The pick 4 also was a bit light. It actually came in UNDER the parlay, which almost never happens with sufficient pool size (and I'd call $2.1 million sufficient!) The only thing I can come up with is Skyring played closer to the 12-1 ML than the 24-1 post time odds. Then everything falls into place much better.

[lb1064]

Didn't look back at the number of horses but makes sense.

[DaTruth]

Excellent work, Doug. Hope you won a lot of jingle on the race.