This horse will win the Derby, surely?
OK, this isn't a tipping site. But...
I was out all yesterday and only caught up with the Dante result late last night. Authorized, the ante post Derby favourite, made his comeback. And what a performance! I can't remember being so taken by a Derby trial in years. Not, in fact, since the ill-fated Shergar won the Chester Vase.
Authorized's price has come in - as it would do after such a scintillating win. But at 6/4 - a 50% return on investment - that is some price for what I think must be as near a certainty as one can have in a race like the Derby.
(I've doubled him up with Passage of Time in the Oaks at 5/2, whose Musidora win was also impressive, I thought.)
UPDATE I am corrected by a commenter:
You must do things differently in the UK. If I bet $10 a horse at 6/4 in Australia, I would get $25 - including my $10 stake - if the horse won. Thats 150% on investment.
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Tom Nuttall
May 18th, 2007 10:48amThis reminds me of something I read last year: "If you were told of an investment which would give you a 200% return in a matter of days, you'd invest as much as you could, wouldn't you? And yet, bizarrely, there are people saying that Visindar, the Derby favourite, is too short at 2/1. … But take it from me, Visindar is as near a certainty as exists in racing. He's at least as much of a certainty as Shergar was all those years ago."
Stephen Ian Pollard
May 18th, 2007 2:07pmOuch. Yes, indeed - my tips are certainly to be regarded with caution!
Jack
May 18th, 2007 6:22pmBetfair has odds of 5/2.
Spencer de Vere
May 20th, 2007 10:48amYou state, " But at 6/4 - a 50% return on investment". You must do things differently in the UK. If I bet $10 a horse at 6/4 in Australia, I would get $25 - including my $10 stake - if the horse won. Thats 150% on investment.