Did anyone win $$ on the derby?
 

Every thread I've read, no one had MTB. Surely somebody here must have played their birthday, boxed POTN with everybody, National P3 - Rachel/ Einstein/All........
Anybody make money????????

I have a friend whose Dad got the exacta cause his birthday is 8-16. If anyone actually capped the race and cashed a ticket on it they should be too embarrassed to post it.

I know someone whose automated teller machine botched his bet and gave him the 8 instead of the 6, but that was about it.

You never have to apologize for cashing. Betting random numbers won't work in the long term but short term it could.

yes. the mrs. won 103.20

I had $27 left in my account after taking a beating on the early races. I bet it sporadically including $5 on Musket Man to show. Lost everything else but won $3 overall.

Had 20 people at a party and purchased a win ticket on every horse and handed them out with a few quick pick exacta boxes. So yes someone hit.. That was pretty much it. I went 12 deep in my P4 and failed to include Calvin. So that should show how much of a shock it was to me.

I was at a party with 12 people so listed the contenders 1-19 in what I thought would be likely odds and the top five got one horse while 6/19, 7/18, 8/17..., 12/13 were all paired. Then we randomly drew horses and I wound up with 6/19, Chocolate Candy and Mine That Bird. I hated both those horses and some girl wanted Chocolate Candy for his name so I traded it for General Quarters and Flying Private. That worked out real well. At least she felt bad and insisted on giving me my money back.

Mrs V had $2 win and place on MTB. When I asked her why, she said she bet it because she thought Calvin could do the double. She tells me this after the race of course, and not on Friday morning
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Same story for me. I'd been analyzing it since Wednesday, and I cashed nothing.

one of the regulars at Turf Paradise had a 5 horse super box for $2 that included the top 4, nice life changing hit.

no, closest i had was Cowboy Cal with all DD :mad:

I had him and the 2 horse over Einstein in exactas :mad:

Friend back wheeled PON for $3. Had the Einstein/all double for $3.
Boom!

feel your pain

We were with a gal at the derby who played it for her daughter, $2 WPS. The girl is afraid of birds and thought the horse was Mind That Bird. She was just dumb enough to cash.:rolleyes:

I had $10 WP on Jazz In the Park that put me in good spot for the day, I then proceeded to tell my boss that you have to watch Borel, he tends to rise to the occasion of a big day especially @ CD .......that being said of the derby.......crickets..........

i talked to someone yesterday that played a tri and cashed it on the derby. :tro:
i had a nice day friday. nothing big but cashed 5 of 6 races. was even saturday...... until the derby.:wf

All right guilty as charged....

Just figured with all of the horses that should win out it could have been anybody.

All/1,2,15,16/1,2,15,16 for a buck = $204 X 2......yeah I know like the payoff wasn't going to be a signer.

This is just a crazy idea I use for some of the big days I will either wheel the top when I think a number of horses can win or the bottom like I did with Bernadini/Sweetnorthernsaint/All when I made my biggest score ever.

The only other requirement for my ticket is that a horse I key has to run a TGH number of a "0" or better. This year I used POTN because of the incredible things being said about his workouts and the angle that says poly horse that will move up on dirt jumps furthest forward the first race on dirt.

I am no great capper but I was lucky again this Derby.....the damn IRS took 10K worth of my luck, such a ripoff!!

I didn't cash a single ticket. :(

I did a Derby seminar Thursday night and when it came time to name our "tosses" I said that "If I had to pick a horse to finish last..." Yep, Mine That Bird!

However -- thank you Future Pool!

I bought "All Others" in Pool 2 (9-2) and Pool 3 (17-1) -- allowing me to cash on my pick to finish last!

I boxed Musket Man with all, I want to puke. I also boxed 5 longshots who I though were all poly horses and ended getting the 7 and 8 in there. So I had 8-2 8-7. I cringe evertime I watch those 3 hit the wire for second. I cringe even more when I watch the head on and see POTN crush both of them.

A friend of mine had $4 left on his voucher after playing lucky numbers, and put it on a 50-1 horse to win. Mine that Bird. He is convinced that handicapping doesn't work.

I bet $200 win POTN and $2 back wheel in the exacta. Sometimes you just get lucky:$:

I had #24 in the last future pool @ 17-1 for a duece.....my buddy "backwheel" POTH in the exacta for a buck & Rodger Wyland of "Big Board Sports" WNYT channel 13 the NBC affiliate in Albany NY had $2.00 WPS on MTB because he had a bird nest outside his house.....true story!

I was alive to several horses in the Oaks / Woodford / derby Pick three and Oaks / derby double and figured I would feel like an idiot if one of my top selections finished second and I didn't collect a dime so I played an $1 exacta All / 6,11,16.

Don't get me wrong I'm happy as hell I cashed but I did pick Mine that Bird (see the bookend contest thread) to finish last so it is a "hollow victory" and you just don't get the same satisfying feeling as though you handicapped it well.

Not a penny here, Had a $100.00 Double with Rachel and POTN, also a 20 exacta box Pioneer/Musket Man, Not to worry, I will get them at Pimlico

You lucky-duck! That is huge and GREAT betting! I was not as lucky, but I did have a $1 exacta box on POTN/ALL. And that is because when I woke up Saturday morning I discovered my top pick had scratched, and when I tried to recap I couldn't toss bo-rail so I tossed noone. Congrats again, you have made my night!

The only person i know who won on KD was my dad who had 5wps on MTB b/c he always bets Borel other then that nothing on KD. I had tizquenna but then missed with dubai majesty and bet zambezi sun that was my "big bet" of the day and bet him b/c of his good races on soft turf in europe. all in all not a good day of capping

Using some of Steve's picks, mine and my wife's I was rolling pick 3s. Trying to keep to a budget I tossed Accredit in the 6th. That cost me about $300. Went on to hit the next Pick 3 (7th-9th) for $200. Should have been smart and walked away. Instead I started to swing for something bigger but struck out.

Quick story. My sister @ brother in-law were in Florida on vacation. During a fishing trip on Friday somehow he got his line tangled twice with birds. She calls me Saturday morning tells me the story and ask me to put $20 on Summer Bird. She joked it must be an omen. I pay no real attention to it and place her bet. She does not realize there is another horse called MTB also in the race and since the horse is not on my radar I don't think to mention it. I get a text message 10 seconds after the race. "Did you happen to also play that horse?" :zz:

singled RA in the Oaks / Derby Double and played it for 10 bucks each on my top 12 picks and 5 bucks each on the rest. Dumbaszed luck :o :$:

Had $5 WP on both POTN and Chocolate Candy. Covered my bet and made an extra 20 cents per dollar as well; cleared a whole dollar. Party time.:rolleyes:

My buddy at the OTB boxed All for 340.00. Got half of the 2100 exacta.

The guy sitting next to me had $30 on Mind that Bird to win and his wife was pi$$ed. She had told him to bet $50 on the 8 across the board. She bet every thing Borel rode.:zz:

That TGH angle is money the last few years. I was surprised that it wasn't repeated again here or on JB's board. Using POTN was just a function of how he looked during the workouts.

I looked at the race after IWR scratched and was convinced there would be an unusual result. Lucky doesn't do it justice, this was miracle fortune to say the least...thanks for the nice comments.

Not lucky at all You basically had an enhanced win bet on RA that cost 155 bucks.. How many horses in the derby wouldv'e shown a profit for the bet. I effed up by betting RA with 3 horses in the Exacta and not the right horse that paid 49 bucks... RA/ALL would've been profitable on all but 1 entry.

mtb was my first throw out, only reason got anything was played 2 horse by einstein by all pic-3, paid about $1450 for a buck cost around $30

lost $12 on derby and $ 61 on bombs rest of the card i been shucken lately

I had POTN WPS and an exacta all/POTN....no, I don't bet that way often, but I've learned my lesson with this race.