LEGENDARY KENTUCKY DERBY FIVE HORSE EXACTA BOX-REVISED DUE TO #9 Scratch
It’s Derby Day! If you want a sweat during the most exciting 2 minutes in sports, this bet is for you! A $2, 5 horse exacta box will cost you $40 and could return hundreds! Here we go!
This is considered a wide open Derby with probably 7 horses going off between 5 to 1 and 10 to 1. The two favorites Renegade and Further Ado drew the not ideal 1 and 18 posts respectively (due to scratches the 18 post will run from the 15 post). The most prominent prep race was the Florida Derby where three horses ran within a length of each other and I think have a chance at doing that again (Note: one of them just scratched). There’s a couple of Japanese horses where absolutely no one has a clue how they will do. Let’s get to it.
Three of the four scratches were all closers thus leaving only a few closers left. Meaning: a lot of speed in the race. It’s possible that #8 So Happy could go wire to wire but he, like all the other horses, haven’t run this distance. My 5 horse Exacta Box is: #6- Commandment, #8-So Happy, #12- Chief Wallabee, #15- Emerging Market and #11- Incredibolt.
Commandment and Chief Wallabee are the two remaining Florida Derby horses. Emerging Market could be ready for a big step up. Threw in Incredibolt because there just may be a huge long shot that wins and that one looks like maybe he can pull it off. Replacing Puma with So Happy. After seeing two horses wiring the field this morning at Churchill, hoping So Happy can do the same. So there you have it: 6-8-11-12-15.
May the horse be with us!