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Originally Posted by JolyB
$41.70 per $1 is a pretty skimpy payoff for a sequence that had three ML second choices as the winners, especially for races that looked quite competitive on paper. I can just imagine how much smaller it would have been if Coliseum had won the Sham.
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I think it was a favorite and 2 2nd choices. The San Gabriel pretty much killed the payoff, when the 8 to 5 favorite won it which figures. I went 5 deep in it thinking it might have a better payoff and almost did. The 3 horse that ran 2nd was 6 to one. Yep, it would have likely been a pitiful payoff indeed with Coliseum, but the talking heads were right about him. Shocking to see a Baffert horse run so poorly. Horse is apparently a head case and has gate issues. I have him in future wagers in an exacta with some others. Probably can say sayonara to that.
I wavered between him and the Sham winner and probably should have played the horse with longer odds, but very hard to go against Baffert. He and Chad Brown are a must use, in just about any race and of course, that is why his odds were so low. The public has been conditioned to think he will win every race, even when the talking heads are saying the horse has problems.