I know I am a nerd, but I love the Triple Crown. Here are the dates:

Saturday, May 1: Kentucky Derby
Saturday, May 15: Preakness
Saturday, June 5: Belmont

Below are the horsies for Saturday's Derby! (Position, Horse, Jockey and Odds)

1 Lookin at Lucky Gomez 3-1

2 Ice Box Lezcano 10-1

3 Noble's Promise Bejarano 12-1

4 Super Saver Borel 15-1

5 Line of David Court 30-1

6 Stately Victor Garcia 30-1

7 American Lion Leparoux 30-1

8 Dean's Kitten Albarado 50-1

9 Make Music for Me Smith 50-1

10 Paddy O'Prado Desormeaux 20-1

11 Devil May Care Velazquez 10-1

12 Conveyance Gomez 12-1

13 Jackson Bend Rose 15-1

14 Mission Impazible Maragh 20-1

15 Discreetly Mine Castellano 30-1

16 Awesome Act Leparoux 10-1

17 Dublin Maragh 12-1

18 Backtalk Mena 50-1

19 Homeboykris Prado 50-1

20 Sidney's Candy Talamo 5-1

The horse that finishes the Derby last goes straight from Churchill Downs to Yum! for processing. I, for one, am excited about the prospect of a Taco Bell Backtalk Burrito or the Dean's Kitten Double Down!

Frau Blücher!
/horse not-whisperer

Ahhh, Derby Day, the only day of the year you can wear a big, goofy hat and not be considered a total freak.

Saturday is gonna be fun times in Louisville. I might get around to watching the race.

I think that I'd just wear the cap that goes with my academic regalia - it's like I have a black velvet throw pillow on my head. Fucking classy.

Why don't they just name the horse Bettman's Balls.

because it's not classy.

I like Stately Victor. So sophisticated.

You guys laugh, but you may as well be picking horses by cool-sounding names. The Derby is virtually impossible to handicap these days, with the 20-horse fields, especially when there is no beast in the race like Big Brown a few years back. Baffert is doing all he can to play down the favorite status for Lookin' at Lucky.

EDIT: Just saw that Endorsement got scratched the other day, which is kind of a bummer. Would have been nice to see a female trainer with a decent favorite in the race.

Whoa - easy there, Jimmy The Greek!

Dean's Kitten? Gee , I wonder what horse Jenn will be putting her money on?

Nope! Devil May Care is the horsie! The jockey is 5 pounds lighter than the rest of the field. STREAMLINED! That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

Bettman rigged the derby, duh.

Sidney's candy ftw.

Say, NOLA, wanna put the horsies in the Bookie Bin? I'd like to burn some points... Anybody else?

[degenerate] We're actually going to the Meadowlands tomorrow solely to place Derby bets. [/degenerate]

What? Who do you think we are around here?

Hell, if all goes well, I'll be spending Saturday afternoon in one of the OTB's in the city.

There's a new off-track betting place in town called - *snort* - Winners. It's pretty apropos when you see the denizens of this place seeking shelter from sunlight.

I heard those were out of funding and closing? Or something like that?

No, they're still open.

C'mon, Mike. Be a team player. Put up the bets.

Churchill Downs is expected to get about 2 inches of rain. Mudders, anyone?

His father was a mudder!

EDIT: That could hurt Lucky even more - the rail will be a mess if they get that much rain.

OK, bets are up in the Bookie. The number in parentheses next to the horsie's name is the post position. Don't bet "none," that is just a place holder.

Now I have to re-do all my handicapping! His mother was a mudder.

No exactas? No trifectas? What is this?

Amateur bullshit.

Exacta and triple payouts are calculated on a rolling basis determined by what is in the betting pool, which means I would have to do some serious number crunching to figure them out. Dicks.

I know. I just like to get you all riled up.

Hello Mudder, hell father...

A tough mudder?

Brutal day so far, the track is going to be an absolute mess. It's anyone's race.

I like Super Saver, good post and good jockey (Borel), and also Paddy O'Prado, Devil May Care, and Awesome Act, though I can't really explain why. I'll probably do some sort of exacta box with those horses, and maybe Luck as well.

Some Mudders' Milk and Ballad of Jayne CD to go, please.

I have $10 on Lookin at Lucky to win, $10 on Devil May Care to win, $10 on Jackson Bend to win and an Ice Box/Mission Impazible $10 Exacta Box.

Stately Victor. Book it.

Anybody see that nut put down $100,000 on #4?

And he won! Calvin Borel came through!

Anddddddddddd I lost. The BF won about a grand, though. I suck.

I just realized that the Superfecta paid about 200K. I need that.

Mike: How'd you do? Did you bet?

How much was the trifecta worth? One of my buddies hit it.

Are you kidding me? A $2 Trifecta was $2337. Nice!

I called the winner earlier in this thread! Why isn't everyone telling me how awesome I am?!? AAAAND, I missed calling the exacta by about a head!

Since I have no heart though, I didn't bet. I was unsure about it earlier in the day, and then wasn't near a window later on to get it in. I would have put $10 or maybe $20 on Super Saver, but I probably would have about broken even because I would also have put down some crazy $10 exacta box with 6 horses. I would have been pretty upset if I had that 4-10 exacta for $10, only to see Paddy O'Prado get nudged out for second like that.

Borel is the man. What a great race. Looking at Lucky will be a good play if he runs in Baltimore. He had a hard time getting out, then got absolutely hammered by another horse in the backstretch, and still managed to finish about 6th.

So there is gonna be a horse race or something today.

Yes, in just a few minutes.