DT Contest - Week 5

[mclem10011]

Originally Posted by DerbyCat

Well, I have made the mistake of going by the Stakes schedule on http://horseracing.about.com/od/trip...a/aa01030a.htm and I now realize that the this race happened back in January... my bad Obviously, I'm too absorbed in work to pay proper attention to horse racing I promise this won't happen again

This next weekend, we'll do these races:

February 9th Risen Star Stakes Fair Grounds 1 1/16 M
February 9th Turf Paradise Derby Turf Paradise 1 1 /16 M
February 10th San Vicente Stakes Santa Anita 7 F
February 11th Ocala Breeder's Sales Championship OBS 1 1/16 M

I'm hoping that this is all correct

Don't sweat it DC you do a fine job handling this contest. Look forward to next weekend's races.

Thanks for all your hard work Derby Cat.

[swedejxn]

great job as always

[Dunbar]

In Week 5 we lost at slightly worse than the track take. 219 picks were made, so that's $1314 in bets. We collected $1067.30, for a net loss of -18.8%.

The good news (sort of) is that I made a mistake back in Week 1. We're doing a little better than I thought. I over-counted the number of picks in Week 1 by 9. I'll try to go back and add a correction to those earlier posts, but the totals below should be correct through Week 5:

Through the first 13 races of the contest:
# of picks: 743
Amount bet: $4458
Amount won: $3706
% return: -16.9%

13 Derby Trail cappers are still showing an overall profit.

Sorry about the error earlier!

--Dunbar

[Dunbar]

Originally Posted by Dunbar

13 Derby Trail cappers are still showing an overall profit.

Actually, there are 3 additional contest entrants who are showing an overall profit after Week 5. I missed them because they all had "no picks" for some races. One of them hasn't picked since Week 2.

I'll have to rephrase my previous statement to this: "The top 13 in the Contest are showing an overall profit."

--Dunbar