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Originally Posted by randallscott35
Tim, they were taking bets on the dead Second of June for a week afterwards. Its buyer beware out there.
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Taking bets on dead horses is a long-standing tradition with some offshore books. I attribute it as much to incompetence as ill-intent. A lot of the books do not make their own lines, so they are slow to adjust to changes. That sometimes works to our advantage, too. (They do not lower the odds after a contender wins a big prep, for example. Or, they do not adjust the other horses' odds when a big fav drops out.)
Right now the biggest joke is wsex.com, which still has a listing for Jazil, Cindago, Declan's Moon, Wilko, Sweetnorthernsaint, Greater Good. And adding insult to injury (so to speak), the highest odds on any of those is 40-1.
For the Kentucky Derby, you can always count on an exciting competition between CRIS and Carib for who takes future bets on injured or dead horses the longest.
btw, Gameday/VIP still has Second of June listed, at 1-1 no less. I presume there is some weirdness in their software that makes it impossible to remove SOJ from their list, but that's pretty weird.
--Dunbar