Sharp declines in late race BC betting

[Alan07]

Through the first two Saturday Breeders’ Cup races, the Juvenile Turf and the Filly and Mare Sprint, betting was up 12 percent compared with last year. Handle bobbed on a race-by-race basis for the next four races, in part because of differences between the two cards as to when multi-leg bets started and ended. However, the last three races suffered significant declines, with 25 percent drops in betting for both the Sprint and Mile compared with the races in similar positions last year.

Betting on the Classic was down approximately $3.6 million, from $28.1 million last year to $24.5 million this year, a drop of 12.1 percent, according to the charts. The Classic went off at 8:43 p.m. Eastern, the latest the race has ever been run.

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