Check out closing odds in final Kentucky Derby Future Wager
Five weeks in advance of the Kentucky Derby, bettors made unbeaten Essential Quality (4-1) the favorite over “all other 3-year-olds” (5-1) and Concert Tour (5-1) in the fifth and final pool of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which concluded a three-day run Sunday.
The Brad Cox-trained 2020 juvenile champion Essential Quality, perfect in four starts with wins in the Breeders’ Futurity (G1), Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Southwest (G3), is expected to headline Saturday’s Blue Grass (G2) at Keeneland.
Unbeaten San Vicente (G2) and Rebel (G2) winner Concert Tour will run next in the Arkansas Derby (G1) on April 10 at Oaklawn Park for six-time Kentucky Derby winner Bob Baffert.
The betting on the mutuel field of “all other 3-year-olds” may have been driven by Known Agenda, the winner of Saturday’s Florida Derby (G1). He was not among the nominated individual horses that were betting choices in Pool 5.
Here are the Pool 5 odds and horses in order of the public’s betting choice (with trainer and $2 win will-pays):
4-1 Essential Quality (Brad Cox, $10.20)
5-1 “All other 3-year-olds” ($12.80)
5-1 Concert Tour (Bob Baffert, $13)
9-1 Greatest Honour (Shug McGaughey, $20.80)
12-1 Hot Rod Charlie (Doug O’Neill, $26.20)
13-1 Medina Spirit (Bob Baffert, $28.80)
21-1 Prevalence (Brendan Walsh, $45.40)
25-1 Highly Motivated (Chad Brown, $53.80)
27-1 Midnight Bourbon (Steve Asmussen, $56.80)
28-1 Helium (Mark Casse, $59.80)
30-1 Risk Taking (Chad Brown, $62.80)
31-1 Rock Your World (John Sadler, $65)
33-1 Caddo River (Brad Cox, $69.40)
35-1 Weyburn (Jimmy Jerkens, $72.80)
36-1 Collaborate (Saffie Joseph Jr., $74.40)
36-1 Mandaloun (Brad Cox, $75.40)
38-1 Crowded Trade (Chad Brown, $78.40)
44-1 Hozier (Bob Baffert, $91.40)
45-1 Dream Shake (Peter Eurton, $92)
46-1 Spielberg (Bob Baffert, $95)
50-1 O Besos (Greg Foley, $102.20)
51-1 Proxy (Mike Stidham, $105.60)
53-1 Hidden Stash (Vicki Oliver, $109.60)
Big Lake (Steve Asmussen, scratched)
Total handle for the March 26-28 KDFW pool – the final future wager pool in advance of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 1 – was $369,695 ($242.140 in the win pool and $127,555 in exactas). Since last November a total of $1,780,403 was bet on future wagers for the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks.