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Undefeated Life Is Good Made Early 6-1 Individual Favorite in Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager Jan 19, 2021 Farm’s undefeated $100,000 Sham Stakes
(Grade III) winner
Life Is Good was made the 6-1 individual morning line
favorite in Pool 2 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.
While Life Is Good was made the individual favorite in Pool 2 of the KDFW,
veteran oddsmaker
Mike Battaglia tabbed “All
Other 3-Year-Olds as the overall 9-5 morning line favorite in the field of 24
Life Is Good Tabbed Individual Favorite In Second Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool Sponsored by:
CHC Inc and WinStar Farm s undefeated $100,000 Sham Stakes (Grade 3) winner Life Is Good was made the 6-1 individual morning line favorite in Pool 2 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.
While Life Is Good was made the individual favorite in Pool 2 of the KDFW, veteran oddsmaker Mike Battaglia tabbed “All Other 3-Year-Olds as the overall 9-5 morning line favorite in the field of 24 betting interests. The pari-mutuel field for the first pool of the New Year has closed as the bettors choice every year since the wager was inaugurated in 1999, and the final odds were 5-2 in five of the last six years.
January 5, 2021 07:43 PM
It was supposed to be moving day last weekend in Kentucky Derby futures betting. Life Is Good was expected to be the catalyst for a serious deck shuffle among the new 3-year-olds.
Instead, he was an unimpressive winner in the Grade 3 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita. He is still the consensus Derby favorite. But rather than plunging to unbackable odds here in Nevada, he might as well have taken the month off.
For a few hours Saturday, Circa shortened Life Is Good to + 850 before putting him back to + 950. William Hill Nevada kept him at 8-1, a co-favorite with Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Essential Quality. They came out of the weekend exactly where they went in.
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