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Originally Posted by JJP
I agree. He was 99-1 at William Hill in the U.K. But lets not forget the makeup of the crowd on Derby Day; many of whom cannot read a DRF or track program past performance. Let's not forget Rick's Natural Star was only 50-1 in the BC Turf a few years ago and actually had more win money than a Grade 1 winning Marlin.
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True, RNS was just silly. He and his owner Dr. Livingston or whatever his name was got alot of PR before the race. In this case I think this was more an extreme case, I understand the alot of non regular fans bet the derby, but to bet him down to 50-1, that is alot of money. Who bet him? Certainly no one on this board did, if so I didn't see anyone even remotely tout him.