Big Brown Triple Crown?
So Big Brown took the Preakness in dominating fashion and is on track to be the first Triple Crown winner since 1978…
The Bodog Racebook now has Big Brown at odds of 1.36. to take the Belmont Stakes and be crowned a Triple Crown champion (win 36c for every $1 bet). Or you can bet that he won’t win the Belmont, which is currently at odds of 3.00.
You might be tempted to take a bet at the $3 price for him to fail in the Belmont, and history would be on your side - all ten horses who have won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness since 1978 have failed to conquer the 12 furlongs at Belmont Park. But most who saw the way he strode home in the Preakness would think it’s a shaky wager.
Jockey, Kent Desormeaux, had this to say after the win; “I looked between my legs, under my arms, and they were eight back. I just stopped riding and reeled him in and made sure he didn’t pull himself up.”
It was a powerful display from an awesome horse. The history books will say he won by 5 lengths, but anyone there knows he probably would have won by 12 if he had been allowed to stretch out.
We’re thinking your best bet for the Belmont Stakes in 3 weeks time will be to take advantage of Bodog’s generosity and take up their offer to pick 2nd place instead of 1st.
The Big Brown is too good.
