If you needed a future wager on early Kentucky Derby favorite Omaha Beach you can return to the drawing board, as his trainer Richard Mandella announced on Wednesday that the colorful colt would miss Saturday’s race.
On the revised morning line, the Bob Baffert trained Game Winner is now the favorite at 4-1. Churchill Downs revised the afternoon line after the scratch of this favorite.An entrapped epiglottis, which affects the colt’s breathing is the offender. Minor surgery is probably, along with the colt will miss his chance in the two most exciting minutes in sports.
Omaha Beach had been as low as +350 in early Kentucky Derby wagering at Bovada.
Maximum Security Wagering about the Kentucky Derby (G1) opened on Friday and with just under $1 million in the betting pool it was Maximum Security and Tacitus which were taking the most action in the win pool.
Florida Derby (G1) winner Maximum Security is your tepid early favorite for the Run for the Roses at 9-2down from his morning line of 8-1 while Tacitus is your co-second choice at 5-1, also down from an 8-1 morning 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 ancient wagering.
Improbable is your co-second option in early betting 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 change from Corey Lanerie into Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith has fallen to 22-1 out of his 30-1 morning line. Smith was originally scheduled to ride Omaha Beach, that needed to scratch on Wednesday due to an entrapped epiglottis.
By My Standards, the Louisiana Derby (G2) winner has been the buzz horse to the backstretch this past week. He had been listed at 20-1 on the first morning lineup and reduced to 15-1 after the scratch of Omaha Beach. His odds after Friday’s betting was recorded at 14-1.
Serengeti Empress won Friday’s Kentucky Oaks (G1) paying $28.00 for $2 and in the Oaks/ Derby daily double it is Improbable that has the cheapest will cover at $110.60 for a $1 bet. The payoff with Tacitus is $111.40, followed closely by Game Winner at $116.30 and Maximum Security at $123.90.
Along with Omaha Bach, Haikal scratched on Friday, making a field of 19.
Despite rains that fell Thursday to 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 throughout the afternoon into the evening.
The Weather Channel lists rain’s chance at 50% for 5:00 and 40% at 6:00. Post time to the Kentucky Derby is 6:50.
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