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New Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool to Debut Before BC Friday

A new Kentucky Derby Future Wager pool with up to 40 betting interests, including the popular “All Others” option, will debut Tuesday, Nov. 1 and close Thursday, Nov. 3 in advance of the Breeders' Cup World Championships' Future Stars Friday.

The new three-day pool, which features $2 Win and Exacta wagering, will open Tuesday, Nov. 1 at noon (all times Eastern) and close Thursday, Nov. 3 at 6 p.m.

Technology advancements now allow up to 40 pari-mutuel betting interests, up from 24 in previous years. Track officials will release the field for Pool 1 following the conclusion of Sunday's “Stars of Tomorrow I” at Churchill Downs.

All told, there are six Future Wager pools scheduled in advance of the 2023 Kentucky Derby: Nov. 1-3 (Pool 1); Nov. 24-27 (Pool 2); Jan. 20-22 (Pool 3); Feb. 10-12 (Pool 4); March 10-12 (Pool 5); and March 30-April 1 (Pool 6). The Kentucky Derby Sire Future Wager, which debuted in 2015 and requires bettors to wager on the winning sire for next year's Kentucky Derby winner, will be held concurrently with Pool 2 on Nov. 24-27. The lone Kentucky Oaks Future Wager will coincide with Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 5 on March 10-12.

Bets can be placed at Churchill Downs Racetrack, TwinSpires.com and other online wagering outlets and satellite wagering centers across North America.

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Flightline Favored In Second BC Classic Future Wager

'TDN Rising Star' Flightline (Tapit), who puts hs unblemished 4-for-4 career mark on the line in Saturday's GI TVG Pacific Classic at Del Mar, has been made the 5-2 favorite for the second and final future wagers on this year's GI Longines Breeders' Cup Classic to be held at Keeneland Saturday, Nov. 5. The Longines Breeders' Cup Classic Future Wager is a $2 minimum and features win betting only.

Second favorite for the Future Wager is Epicenter (Not This Time), who saw his Classic stock rise with a comprehensive victory in last Saturday's GI Runhappy Travers S. at Saratoga. He is available at odds of 7-2 to begin, just ahead of 'Rising Star' and GI Whitney S. hero Life Is Good (Into Mischief) at 4-1.

Click here for the full list of Future Wager horses. With penny breakage in Kentucky, Flightline closed the first pool with a will-pay of $6.98.

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Tiz the Bomb Running For Churchill’s Backside Learning Center

Owner Brook Smith admits that his wager–a $10,000 Derby Future Wager bet on Tiz the Bomb (Hit It a Bomb) at 10-1–was not the smartest bet he's ever made. But that's not the point. The bet was meant to raise awareness for the Backside Learning Center at Churchill Downs and, who knows, perhaps make over $100,000 for an organization that is meeting the many needs of the track's backstretch workers.

Smith, who operates the Rocket Ship Racing, LLC, stable, has been a longtime supporter of the backstretch center and helped spearhead the “Purses For a Purpose” program in which owners donate a percentage of their earnings to the Churchill facility. But he wanted to do more. Inspired by Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale, who is known for his charitable nature and for making large bets on races and sporting events, Smith made the $10,000 bet on Tiz the Bomb, who races Saturday at Gulfstream in the GIII Holy Bull S., in the second round of the Derby Future Wager. Should he win the GI Kentucky Derby, the payoff will be $114,000, all of which Smith will donate to the Backside Learning Center.

“We as Thoroughbred owners are in unique spot,” Smith said. “We need to do everything we can to support the industry and support those that are there in the trenches. That's what is beautiful about racing. Yes, it's nice to win big races once in a while, but it's also going out to the track in the mornings and seeing the dedication and care from these people. It's not an easy life to live on the backside and have young families on the backside. The Backside Learning Center covers a lot of bases for those folks in that community. I was shocked when I heard how small their annual budget was. They are scratching quarters together.”

The Backside Learning Center is just one of several initiatives Smith supports, among them programs that work to better the lives of those living in Appalachia.

The seeds for the bet were planted when McIngvale bet $10,000 on Smile Happy (Runhappy) in the first round of the Derby Future Wager at 8-1. McIngvale chose Smile Happy because he is by Runhappy, who he owned and promotes relentlessly.

Smith does not own any part of Tiz the Bomb, but the colt came onto his radar when he bought Tiz the Bomb's half-sister, Bel Rosso (Free Drop Billy), for $180,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings sale.

“We generally don't spend that kind of money,” he said. “We usually spend in the $100,000 range. But she was just so impressive coming into the ring.”

The more of Tiz the Bomb he saw the more he liked. After winning the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile and the GII Bourbon S., he was a fast-closing second in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf.

“I do like the horse as a a handicapper, though I won't call myself a handicapper,” he said. “The second-place finish in the Juvenile Turf and the move the horse made was just crazy impressive. I believe he is special. If he takes to the dirt like I think he is going to, I think we'll be talking about him being one of the Derby favorites after Saturday.”

Like McIngvale, Smith is a bit of a character. His graying hair flows down his back and his inner circle includes celebrities like Emeril Lagasse. He figures if McIngvale can be called “Mattress Mack” he can be called “Bourbon Brook.” He is a part-owner of two bourbon distilleries, Castle & Key Distillery and Barrell Craft Spirits.

“I'm not going to say that I'm Mattress Mack, but I thought 'why let him have all the fun?'” he said.

He has never met McIngvale but says he “wouldn't mind stirring it up” with him.

“If he's back at the betting windows I'll be back at the betting windows too,” he said. “This will not be the last bet like this that I make.”

He'll have a better idea after the Holy Bull if he made a good bet or not.

“The reality is, with any of these horses in the future bets, they all should be 50-1 because one bad step and it's over,” Smith said. “It may seem foolish to bet the kind of money I did on a future wager but I hope it can raise awareness for the Backside Learning Center. And they could wind up getting a lot of money out of this. It is all for a good cause.”

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Essential Quality, Life Is Good Top Individual Choices In Third Kentucky Derby Future Wager

Godolphin's Eclipse Award-winning colt Essential Quality and CHC Inc and WinStar Farm's undefeated $100,000 Sham Stakes (Grade 3) winner Life Is Good were made the 8-1 individual morning line favorites in Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (“KDFW”), but the pari-mutuel field of “All Other 3-Year-Olds” is expected to be the overall choice in the three-day wager that begins Friday.

Pool 3 of the KDFW will open Friday at noon (all times Eastern) and close Sunday at 6 p.m. Wagers can be placed online at www.TwinSpires.com, as well as racetracks and simulcast centers throughout the country.

Veteran morning line oddsmaker Mike Battaglia installed the pari-mutuel field, or “All Other 3-Year-Olds,” as the overall 7-2 favorite in the field of 24 betting interests.

Essential Quality, the winner of the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1), is expected to make his seasonal debut in Monday's $750,000 Southwest Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park. Trained by Brad Cox, Essential Quality closed at 8-1 odds in the first two pools of the KDFW.

Life Is Good, based at Santa Anita with six-time Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Bob Baffert, scored a front-running victory in the Jan. 2 Sham besting his stablemate Medina Spirit, who subsequently won the $100,000 Robert B. Lewis (G3). Life Is Good and Medina Spirit are two of four Baffert trainees in Pool 3 of the KDFW. The others are the recent top two finishers of the $200,000 San Vicente (G2): Gary and Mary West's Concert Tour and SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Golconda Stables, Siena Farm and Robert Masterson's Freedom Fighter.

There are nine new wagering interests from Pool 2, which was staged Jan. 22-24: Frank Fletcher Racing Operation's Candy Man Rocket and Michael Shanley's Nova Rags, the top two finishers in the $200,000 Sam F. Davis (G3); Exline-Border Racing, SAF Racing and Richard Hausman's 4 ¾-length debut winner Dream Shake; Freedom Fighter; Godolphin's 8 ½-length debut winner Prevalence; Klaravich Stables' $200,000 Withers (G3) winner Risk Taking; Don Alberto Stable and Qatar Racing Limited's Robert B. Lewis runner-up Roman Centurian; Siena Farms and Asmussenquine.com's undefeated Swiftsure; and ERJ Racing, Train Wreck AI Racing Stables, Niall Brennan, Tom Fitz and William Strauss' 14-length maiden winner The Great One.

The complete field for Pool 3 of the KDFW (with trainer and morning line odds): #1 Caddo River (Cox, 12-1); #2 Candy Man Rocket (Bill Mott, 20-1); #3 Concert Tour (Baffert, 20-1); #4 Dream Shake (Peter Eurton, 20-1); #5 Essential Quality (Cox, 8-1); #6 Fire At Will (Mike Maker, 50-1); #7 Freedom Fighter (Baffert, 20-1); #8 Greatest Honour (Shug McGaughey III, 15-1); #9 Highly Motivated (Chad Brown, 20-1); #10 Hot Rod Charlie (Doug O'Neill, 20-1); #11 Jackie's Warrior (Steve Asmussen, 30-1); #12 Keepmeinmind (Robertino Diodoro, 20-1); #13 Life Is Good (Baffert, 8-1); #14 Mandaloun (Cox, 30-1); #15 Medina Spirit (Baffert, 20-1); #16 Midnight Bourbon (Asmussen, 30-1); #17 Nova Rags (Mott, 30-1); #18 Prevalence (Brendan Walsh, 20-1); #19 Risk Taking (Brown, 15-1); #20 Roman Centurian (Simon Callaghan, 30-1); #21 Senor Buscador (Todd Fincher, 30-1); #22 Swiftsure (Asmussen, 30-1); #23 The Great One (O'Neill, 20-1); and #24 “All Other 3-Year-Olds” (9-5).

The Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which features $2 Win and Exacta wagering, provide fans of Thoroughbred racing with opportunities to place bets on possible entrants in the $3 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade 1) at odds that could be far greater than those available on the day of the race. The 147th running of Kentucky Derby, America's greatest race and the first leg of the Triple Crown, is set for Saturday, May 1 at Churchill Downs.

There are no refunds in the Kentucky Derby Future Wager. Should Churchill Downs officials determine during the duration of this week's three-day pool that one of the wagering interests has experienced an injury, illness or other circumstance that would prevent the horse from participating in the Kentucky Derby, betting on the individual horse will be suspended immediately.

More information and real-time odds are available online at www.KentuckyDerby.com/FutureWager.

Dates for the remaining 2021 Kentucky Derby future pools are March 5-7 (Pool 4) and March 26-28 (Pool 5). The lone Kentucky Oaks Future Wager will coincide with Pool 4 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager.

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