‘All Others’ installed as heavy favorite in Derby Future Pool 1

‘All Others’ installed as heavy favorite in Derby Future
Pool 1

Champion Shanghai Bobby (#17) and rising star Violence (#21) are expected to
vie for the role of individual favorite, but Churchill Downs Racetrack oddsmaker
Mike Battaglia believes the “All Others” (#24) betting interest will be a strong
fans’ choice in the first of three pools of the 2013 Kentucky Derby Future Wager
(“KDFW”), which opens a three-day run on Friday, February 8.

Also known as the mutuel field, “All Others” includes all 3-year-old
Thoroughbreds other than the 23 individual horses listed among Pool 1’s 24
betting interests. Battaglia installed “All Others” as the 9-5 favorite in his
morning line odds for 2013’s first KDFW pool, which will open at noon (EST) on
Friday and conclude at 6 p.m. on Sunday.

The Kentucky Derby Future Wager offers racing fans an opportunity to bet on
potential contenders for the famed “Run for the Roses” well in advance of the
race at odds that could be significantly more attractive than the prices
available Kentucky Derby Day. The $2 million-guaranteed Kentucky Derby will be
run for the 139th consecutive year at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 4.

The popular “All Others” bet has been the Pool 1 favorite in each of the 14
years since the Derby Future bet was introduced in 1999.

“It’s normal and logical for ‘All Others’ to be favored in the opening pool
of the Derby Future Wager, but it’s rare for me to set its morning line odds so
low,” said Battaglia, who has established morning line odds for Churchill Downs
and the Kentucky Derby since 1975. “No individual horse has really grabbed the
attention of Derby fans, and while several lightly-raced horses have been
impressive, they are question marks in terms of experience. It will be fun to
shop for attractive prices on individual horses, but most fans figure to find
their way back to the mutuel field before the pool closes.”

Each Kentucky Derby Future pool offers $2 minimum win betting and exacta
wagering, which is available in the form of $2 minimum straight exacta bets or
$1-minimum exacta boxes and part-wheels. No scratches or betting refunds are
permitted in the Derby Future Wager, but betting on an individual horse will be
suspended immediately if Churchill Downs determines that an injury, illness or
other circumstance revealed during the pool would prevent that horse from
competing in the Kentucky Derby.

Shanghai Bobby, who was voted two-year-old champion of 2012 after a perfect
four-race campaign capped by a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa
Anita, and Grade 1 CashCall Futurity winner Violence are co-second choices on
the morning line at odds of 12-1.

Both are trained by Todd Pletcher, who saddled Super Saver to win the 2010
Kentucky Derby and is the trainer of seven of the 23 individual horses on the
KDFW Pool 1 betting roster. The other Pletcher-trained horses are Grade 2 Remsen
and Grade 2 Futurity winner Overanalyze (#14, 15-1); Grade 3 Withers hero
Revolutionary (#16, 20-1); unbeaten Verrazano (#20, 15-1); Breeders’ Cup
Juvenile third-place finisher Capo Bastone (#1, 30-1); and Delhomme (#3, 30-1),
third in the Remsen.

Three-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Bob Baffert is represented by four
KDFW Pool betting interests headed by Flashback (#7, 15-1), the unbeaten winner
of the Grade 3 Robert B. Lewis at Santa Anita. Baffert’s other Pool 1 horses are
Den’s Legacy (#4, 30-1), winner of the Grade 3 Generous on turf and runner-up in
the Lewis and the Grade 3 Sham; Grade 3 Hollywood Preview runner-up Super Ninety
Nine (#18, 20-1) and Code West (#2, 50-1).

Other trainers with multiple KDFW Pool 1 horses are Hall of Famer D. Wayne
Lukas and Doug O’Neill, each of whom trains a pair of betting interests.

Lukas, a four-time winner of the Kentucky Derby, trains Grade 3 Lecomte
winner Oxbow (#15, 20-1) and Will Take Charge (#23, 30-1), winner of the Smarty
Jones at Oaklawn Park. O’Neill, who saddled Reddam Racing LLC’s I’ll Have
Another to win the 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, conditions Sham and Grade
3 Delta Downs Jackpot winner Goldencents (#9, 20-1) and Reddam’s Breeders’ Cup
Juvenile runner-up He’s Had Enough (#10, 50-1).

Other horses expected to attracted solid support in KDFW Pool 1 include
trainer Ed Plesa Jr.’s Itsmyluckyday (#11, 15-1), who handed Shanghai Bobby his
only loss in the Grade 3 Holy Bull at Gulfstream Park; Normandy Invasion (#13,
20-1), a late-charging runner-up in the Remsen for trainer Chad Brown; and
Uncaptured (#19, 20-1), winner of the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club and Grade 3
Iroquois at Churchill Downs for trainer Mark Casse.

The Kentucky Derby Future Wager is coming off one of its most successful
years with a combined $1,470,019 wagered in its trio of 2012 pools. The 2012
betting total was the fourth largest in KDFW history and reflected a wagering
increase of 7.9 percent over the 2011 three-pool total of $1,362,101.

The overall total was the largest since the wager shifted to its current
three-day, Friday-through-Sunday format in 2010. KDFW pools had been four-day
events prior to that change.

I’ll Have Another’s win in the 2012 Kentucky Derby resulted in KDFW $2 win
payouts of $60.20 in Pool 1, $46.20 in Pool 2 and $45.60 in the third and final
pool. A $2 Derby Day win wager on I’ll Have Another returned $32.60.

Exacta payouts on the I’ll Have Another-Bodemeister 1-2 finish in Derby 138
returned $306.60 on Derby Day, while the KDFW exacta returned $257.80 on Pool 1
(a 13-24 exacta in which Bodemeister was a member of the “All Others” mutuel
field), $1,661 in Pool 2 (12-3) and $1,351.40 in Pool 3 (10-2).

The field for Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 2 was selected by a panel of
journalists and racing officials that included Brad Free and Mike Watchmaker of
Daily Racing Form, Ed DeRosa of Brisnet.com and Churchill Downs’ John Asher.

Information on the Kentucky Derby is available online at the official event
Web site at
www.KentuckyDerby.com and KDFW real-time odds will be presented on that site
throughout each 2013 three-day pool.

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