So..what would a $2 ticket bring?
65:1 makes it $130, doesn’t it?
$132 for a $2 win bet, a $1 super high five (pick the first five finishers) bet paid $544,000. No, I didn’t have that bet.
132. Even show paid 24-something
Super trifecta paid 51,000 plus
$130
$136 and change.
Superfecta (top 4 horses in the right order)...$51k for a $1 bet.
$132.40-—A bad beat for me-—I didn’t invest much but I put Country House 3rd or fourth in superfectas. I liked two longshots, Cutting Humor and Country House...stupidly I put my $5 win bet on Cutting Humor, whose odds were 24-1, little more than ONE THIRD of CH’s odds. When the DQ came and put CH on top, him winning keyed some of the biggest payoffs ever, exacta, triple, superfecta, AND Superhighfive, which, for $1 paid an astonishing $551,000.00! Fact is, Max Security was all over the place, interfered with the paths of a number of horses, especially Will to Win, causing him to nearly clip heels, and when that happens it can be fatal, producing downed horses and jockeys, screwing up the entire race. Luis Saez knew his horse was out of control, admitting he got spooked by hearing the crowd’s roar as they headed around the final turn. He said “He got scared....he’s a baby”-—It really wasn’t the jockey’s fault, though he did go nuts after he crossed the finish line, standing up, fist punching the air.