2019 Kentucky Derby Odds: Omaha Beach Scratch Leaves Game Winner as Derby Favorite
If you needed a future bet on early Kentucky Derby favorite Omaha Beach you can head back to the drawing board, as his trainer Richard Mandella declared on Wednesday the colorful colt would miss Saturday’s race.
On the revised line, the Bob Baffert trained Game Winner is currently the favorite at 4-1. Churchill Downs revised the morning line after the scrape of the favorite.An entrapped epiglottis, which affects the colt’s breathing is the offender. Minor surgery is probably, along with the colt will miss his opportunity at both most exciting minutes in sports.
Omaha Beach had been as low as +350 in early Kentucky Derby wagering at Bovada.
Maximum Tacitus Early Movers in Kentucky Derby Betting, Security Wagering on the Kentucky Derby (G1) started on Friday and with just under $1 million in the betting pool it was Maximum Security and Tacitus which were carrying the most action in the win pool.
Florida Derby (G1) winner Maximum Security is the tepid early favorite for the Run for the Roses in 9-2, down from his morning line of 8-1 while Tacitus is your co-second choice at 5-1, down from an 8-1 dawn line.
Game Winer inherited the honor of morning line favorite at 9-2 after the Wednesday scrape of Omaha Beach. The Bob Baffert trainee is in wagering.
Improbable is your co-second choice in ancient gambling at 5-1, matching his morning line odds of 5-1. Baffert trains the colt.
Baffert’s third runner is Santa Anita Derby (G1) winner Roadster, who has drifted up to 9-1 off his 5-1 morning line odds.
Cutting Honor, with a late jockey switch from Corey Lanerie to Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith has dropped to 22-1 from his 30-1 morning line. Smith was originally scheduled to ride Omaha Beach, that needed to scrape Wednesday because of an entrapped epiglottis.
By My Standards, the Louisiana Derby (G2) winner has been the buzz horse on the backstretch this past week. He had been recorded at 20-1 on the first morning line and lowered to 15-1 after the scratch of Omaha Beach. His chances after Friday was recorded at 14-1.
Serengeti Empress won Friday’s Kentucky Oaks (G1) paying $28.00 for $2 and also at the Oaks/ Derby daily double it is Improbable that gets the lowest will pay at $110.60 for a $1 bet. The payoff with Tacitus is 111.40, followed by Game Winner at $116.30 and Maximum Security at $123.90.
In addition to Omaha Bach, Haikal scratched on Friday, leaving a field of 19.
Despite storms that dropped Thursday into Friday morning the track was labeled as quickly for the Kentucky Oaks on Friday afternoon. There’s an 80% chance of rain on Saturday.
Showers are forecast to start around 1:00 and continue during the day into the night.
The Weather Channel lists the chance of rain at 40 percent at 6:00 and 50% for 5:00. Post time for the Kentucky Derby is 6:50.
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