Kentucky Downs Produces Massive Payouts And Breeders Cup Entrants

Nashville Derby winner Caroline St. Beat helped trigger massive multi-race wager payouts by coming home first at odds of 17 to 1

Danny Brewer

The Breeders’ Cup has gained two new contestants, but the betting public also gained a bigger wallet on the biggest day of turf racing at Kentucky Downs. Absolutely earning its nickname of Cashville, Kentucky Downs paid out massive amounts of money to those who held winning tickets on multi race wagers. The money flowing into the pockets of the betting public on Turf Cup Day was almost mind boggling. The five consecutive Stakes race sequence, part of the U.S. Open of Turf Championships, produced epic payouts and demonstrated the low-risk high yield attractiveness of playing the ponies.

Multi-race Wager Payouts Produce Big Numbers For Bettors At Kentucky Downs

The beauty of wagering at Kentucky Downs has always been the likelihood of massive payouts in the multi-race wager sequences. Since the infusion of funds from historical horse racing gaming machines, the race purse explosion has produced increased competition and enhanced the payouts to both horsemen and horse players. Larger numbers of entrants in each race usually spreads the money wagered and makes for a larger return on investment. The nature of the Kentucky Downs course also plays a factor in the unpredictability. As the only European style course in the United States, the ups and downs of the undulating grass is not always to the liking of all horses. Therefore, the form a runner displays at other tracks does not translate to this Franklin, Kentucky course.

The goal of most that play the horses is to enjoy a bank-robbing type scenario. That is usually generated from the multi-race wagers. At Kentucky Downs, the pick 3, pick 4, and pick 5 wagers are all of the 50-cent variety. That means you select the winner of consecutive races at the beginning of either a three, four, or five race sequence. Most players select multiple horses in each race to increase their chances of winning with each combination costing 50 cents. Building tickets can get costly quicker than you think, however, the prize, especially at Kentucky Downs, can produce a large return on investment.

Turf Cup Day Payouts Indicative of Kentucky Downs

The pick 5 sequence consisted of the five Stakes races with two of those events as win and you are in races for the Breeders’ Cup. With a total of $9.75 million offered to the runners, bigger fields were featured in all of the races. No favorites prevailed which produced a massive payout of $154,457.72. The longest shot to win was in the final leg when Somerset West came home at 19 to 1. The other winners were 4 to 1, 6 to 1, 17 to 1, and 8 to 1. None of the winners were tremendous bombs on the tote board, but the combination was such that very few had that correct combination. Thusly the dividing of the $726,883 in the pool produced a BIG ticket.

The all-Stakes pick four and late pick 3 among this same sequence of races also produced very nice numbers, just not the eye-popping figures of the pick 5. The pick four returned an extremely handsome $17,378.11 while the pick 3 provided a tantalizing $2014.93. These are outstanding numbers that have been commonplace at Kentucky Downs. Heist-like payouts of this magnitude are not always present, but in Cashville, grand larceny happens with frequency.