A Triple Crown Winner in 2008?
Prior to the Kentucky Derby, you are typically required to lay about $1000 to win $100 on a “no” bet that there will be a Triple Crown Winner. Based on historic win rates, that’s probably about right.
Now that the favorite won the Derby (we picked the three-year-old Big Brown), and won from the 20th post by an sizable margin, the odds have dropped considerably. Current odds:
Will there be a Triple Crown Winner in 2008?
Yes +110
No -150
A Mile High is really a valley low
HOMER ALERT!
Now I usually shy away from my pro-Denver leanings when writing in my own little corner of cyberspace. Whether it is my loathing of the Raiders, the Diamondbacks or the Lakers, I try to lay off expressing my true feelings in an effort to stay neutral. But things have gotten so bad in the Mile High City, that I needed the collective shoulder of the Dog Pound to cry on.
Denver has always been such a great sports town. We have world titles in both football and hockey and it looked like our little brother of a team – the Rockies, was going to mature in front of our eyes and bring home a World Series crown. Alas, it wasn’t to be as our little brother ran into Boston’s big brother and sent us home in four games last year.
We are used to getting no respect when it comes to baseball. The east-coast, major-market bias has never gotten to us. So we weren’t surprised when early MLB picks for the 2008 season left us out of the pennant conversation. Heck, they even left us out of the NL West conversation, but we took it all with a grain of salt. We were gonna show them! Well, not so much.
BetUS.com Posts Odds on Triple Crown and Preakness
Kentucky Derby picks in – pundits and fans move on to Preakness picks and Triple Crown predictions.
Despite triumph and tragedy meeting at the Kentucky Derby this past weekend, fan interest and fascination in the possibility of a horse winning the Triple Crown is at an all time high. Affirmed remains the last horse to win the triple crown in 1978 and fans are wondering how Bog Brown stacks up – and what the field will look like at the Preakness.
This being the case, the largest, most successful sportsbook on the web, BetUS.com posted odds on the Preakness and as we also now have Belmont Stakes picks on the horizon, BetUs.com has posted odds on a Triple Crown winner.
“Fans are really eager for a horse to capture their imaginations like ‘Affirmed’ did back in 1978,” stated BetUS spokesman Reed Richards. “That’s really where all of this interest stems from. They come to our site hoping the chances are good for a Triple Crown winner – what those chances are EXACTLY.”
Oddsmakers at BetUS.com posted the following odds on the Triple Crown and Preakness:
To Win Preakness:
Big Brown 1/3
Harlem Rocker 9/2
Behindatthebar 14/1
Denis of Cork 16/1
Samba Rooster 16/1
Colonel John 16/1
Bob Black Jack 20/1
Tale of Ekati 25/1
Recapturetheglory 33/1
Will Big Brown win the Triple Crown?
Yes 1/2
No 3/2
For more sports and entertainment odds, visit www.BetUs.com.