Triple Crown Game - Third Leg: The Belmont Stakes

What another horse game? Yeah, I'm a little obsessed, but better for you with more chances to win colors!!!


The Triple Crown is a series of three horse races run in May and June. In a series of races, each race is called a leg. The Kentucky Derby is first, the Preakness second, and the Belmont third. The best of the 3 year old Thoroughbreds in the world come to race against each other for the greatest prize in sports (lol).

How the game is played:

You will place your bets in here. You pick:
-Win (First Place)
-Place (Second Place)
-Show (Third Place)

Post positions are not drawn until Thursday or Friday, and the best odds will go up at that time as well. You have until the race starts to post your choices here.

If you get the Winner right you get 24 hrs of colors.

Or...


Get the Win, Place, and Show right amassing 96 hrs of VIPship.

You can then choose to keep the hours saved until the next race and continue to add on to the number of hours you have colors.

Each race can start over on betting.

So Inty picks the Winner of the Kentucky Derby. He does not get the Place and Show right. He can have 24 hrs of VIPship or he can choose to save it for the Preakness. If he gets the Preakness winner right he can have 48 hrs of VIPship. If he saves it and gets the Belmont right he can have 72 hrs of VIPship.

If Inty picks the Win, Place, Show of the Derby he can have 96 hrs of VIPship. He can also choose to save the hours and pick the Preakness as well. If he does this and loses (doesn't pick Win, Place, Show) then he gets no hours of VIPship. If he picks the Win, Place, Show again, he gets 8 days of colors. Or he can choose to gamble and pick the Belmont. If he picks the Belmont Win, Place, Show (I'm taking him to Vegas!) then he gets to have 2 weeks of colors.

At any point the hours can be used up and restarted. So if he picks all three in the Derby, uses the colors, then picks the winner of the Preakness he gets another 24 hrs of VIPship.

Sounds more complicated than it is, but we can go over this as much as we need to so you understand when the time comes.

Here are the horses:

Dunkirk

Musket Man


West Side Bernie

Chocolate Candy

General Quarters

Square Eddie

Papa Clem


Pioneerof the Nile


Mine That Bird

Friesan Fire

Flying Private

Desert Party

Mr. Hot Stuff

Summer Bird

Advice


I Want Revenge - scratched

Win Willy

[link=http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2009/racing-informat

 

If I don't do my picks now, I'm gonna forget.

Win: General Quarters
Place: Dunkirk
Show: Flying Private

 

Post Positions drawn so you should be able to find odds up now as well. Looks like I Want Revenge is going in as the favorite.
Post Position--- Trainer---Jockey
1 - West Side Bernie - Kelly Breen - Stewart Elliott
2 - Musket Man - Derek Ryan - Eibar Coa
3 - Mr. Hot Stuff - Eoin Harty - John Velazquez
4 - Advice - Todd Pletcher - Rene Douglas
5 - Hold Me Back - Bill Mott - Kent Desormeaux
6 - Friesan Fire - Larry Jones - Gabriel Saez
7 - Papa Clem - Gary Stute - Rafael Bejarano
8 - Mine That Bird - Bennie Woolley Jr. - Calvin Borel
9 - Join in the Dance - Todd Pletcher - Chris DeCarlo
10 - Regal Ransom - Saeed bin Suroor - Alan Garcia
11 - Chocolate Candy - Jerry Hollendorfer - Mike Smith
12 - General Quarters - Thomas R. McCarthy - Julien Leparoux
<s>13 - I Want Revenge - Jeff Mullins - Joe Talamo</s> - scratched
14 - Atomic Rain - Kelly Breen - Joe Bravo
15 - Dunkirk - Todd Pletcher - Edgar Prado
16 - Pioneerof the Nile - Bob Baffert - Garrett Gomez
17 - Summer Bird - Tim Ice - Chris Rosier
18 - Nowhere to Hide - Nick Zito - Shaun Bridgmohan
19 - Desert Party - Saeed bin Suroor - Ramon Dominguez
20 - Flying Private - D. Wayne Lukas - Robby Albarado

 

Win: Dunkirk
Place: Mr. Hot Stuff
Show: Friesan Fire

 

Win: Advice
Place: Dunkirk
Show: I Want Revenge

 

Win: Friesan Fire
Place: I Want Revenge
Show: Pioneer of the Nile

 

Win: Mine That Bird
Place: Desert Party
Show: Chocolate Candy

 

I Want Revenge won't be running today... get changes in, y'all!

Win: Friesan Fire
Place: Dunkirk
Show: Regal Ransom

 

Last minute injury like that is heartbreaking for the connections of I Want Revenge.

 

Win: Advice
Place: Dunkirk
Show: Friesan Fire

(To make up for I Want Revenge's injury)

 

Win: General Quarters
Place: Dunkirk
Show: Friesan Fire

 

Mr. Hot Stuff's half sister won the Distaff Turf Mile today!

 

Wow!!!! Biggest upset in derby history!

Mine that Bird 50-1 longshot wins by many lengths going away. And we actually had someone here that picked it! You would've won a LOT of money if you had made that bet.

Win: Mine that Bird
Place: Pioneerof the Nile
Show: Musket Man

 

Wow, that was a heck of a race!

Congrats, amidalachick!

 

Thanks! I just couldn't resist the horse with Canuck connections.

It certainly was an amazing Derby this year, from the race itself to the betting payouts!

EDIT: Ooh, great banner!

 

Enjoy your 24 hrs of colors for picking the winner!

 

Congrats amidalachick spot on.

 

So the 50-1 odds finally have gotten revenge on history.

 

I heard about the scratch in plenty of time... but I was on the interstate and couldn't change my pick. Not that it would have mattered, anyways

Congrats to Mine That Bird and amidalachick for getting it right!

Also, I managed to listen to the derby on the radio while driving... not as good as watching it, but still nice.

 

When I saw the results, I couldn't believe it. Congrats to amidalachick on getting that right! Wow!

 

Also, listening to the radio made it sound incredibly close, though it sounds like it wasn't really close at all by the end

 

That's weird that they made it sound close. He blew them away at the end.

 

Well, I probably shouldn't have used the word 'incredibly' there. But I definitely came off with the impression it was close from the call itself.

Also, just finally watched the video... wow. Though it would be interesting to see a camera angle that focused on Mine that Bird for most of the race, how he came through the pack.

 

I'm sure it's out there somewhere, since NBC showed it after the race. They had an overhead view from approx. the last part of the backstretch to the wire with a little virtual arrow pointing out Mine that Bird the whole way. It was really fascinating to watch how he wove between all the horses.

Then NBC showed the same camera angle with last year's Derby with Street Sense for comparison because the jockey did the exact same thing.

 

For those that didn't get to see the aerial view, check this out. They get to the top view at about 7 minutes.