Texas woman wins $1.2 million on $18 Kentucky Derby bet

michael777 · May 6, 2018

[FONT=&quot]Justify stole the show at Churchill Downs on Saturday, winning the wettest Kentucky Derby of all time by more than two lengths.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A woman in Texas, though, may be even happier than Justify’s race team was after the horse won the 144th run for the roses.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]An Austin, Texas, woman won $1.2 million after placing just an $18 bet on a series of Derby Day races, according to Bill Hutchinson and Mark Osborne of ABC News. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Per the report, the woman made a Pick 5 wager at the Retama Park racetrack in Selma, Texas, on Saturday. The woman, who did not want to be identified, picked her first four race winners correctly ahead of the main event, and picked Justify to win it all.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The woman’s payday was nearly the same as the $1.24 million prize that Justify won for winning the Kentucky Derby.[/FONT]

Willie99 · May 7, 2018

Awesome

fantasysportsavvy101 · May 7, 2018

The odds of winning this stuff is pretty slim. She is really lucky.

tanner12oz · May 7, 2018

I'm guessing this was the pick 6 she hit?

michael777 · May 7, 2018

it was a pick 5

Betallsports · May 7, 2018

Yeah I almost hit it too. I went 0-5

michael777 · May 7, 2018

I did the exact opposite of that woman,in my life of betting horses,I have turned 1.24 million into $18

Greenbacks · May 7, 2018

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Justify’s ownership team took home $1.24 million after the favorite won Saturday’s Kentucky Derby, the $500,000 they shelled out for the colt in 2016 looking like money well spent.
A woman from Austin scored nearly the same payday after Justify’s victory on Saturday. She only had to put down $18.
Placing a Pick 5 bet at Retama Park in Selma, Tex., the woman correctly predicted the winners of Races 8-12 Saturday at Churchill Downs: Limousine Liberal, 4-1 in the eighth; Maraud, 8-1 in the ninth; Funny Duck, a 40-1 long shot in the 10th; and Yoshida, 10-1 in the 11th. And when Justify crossed the finish line first in the Kentucky Derby, the 12th race on the card, the woman was $1.2 million richer.
The woman asked not to be identified but posed for photos that were posted on Retama Park’s Twitter feed:
“It’s extremely rare,” Retama Park spokeswoman Rachel Bagnetto told ABC News. “To bet that little amount of money and win $1.2 million is unheard of. In fact, it’s the first time it’s happened at Retama.”

Betallsports · May 7, 2018

michael777 said:
I did the exact opposite of that woman,in my life of betting horses,I have turned 1.24 million into $18

You have $18 Left ???

that's $17 more than me. lol

C.P. · May 7, 2018

I bet 979.00...on the KD

won 72.00...lol

the 6 killed me....

5 gets in second ...different story...

oh well..

WhiteyBulger · May 7, 2018

I’ve heard many suspect she cashed the ticket for someone else.

Why take a pic pic with the GM of the track but yet want to remain anonymous

i can’t believe she played it for a $1

the minimum was .50 cent. Just crazy how some people are so lucky.

tanner12oz · May 7, 2018

Wonder where she spread and singled? From what I hear funny duck was impossible to come up with yoshido is a solid animal and massive overlay at that price

Michelangelo · May 7, 2018

tanner12oz said:
Wonder where she spread and singled? From what I hear funny duck was impossible to come up with yoshido is a solid animal and massive overlay at that price

I had a nice winning perfecta with Yoshida on top. Very bettable off two fantastic 1 1/8 times. Funny Duck? You had to believe in mud breeding. Even then, he was one of eight horses in the race with a +400 number. Very very tough to come up with that horse unless you play names or numbers or some other irrelevancy to handicapping.

Good for her. She got the dream we all chase as horse players.

WharfRat+ · May 8, 2018

C.P. said:
I bet 979.00...on the KD

won 72.00...lol

the 6 killed me....

5 gets in second ...different story...

oh well..

So easy after the fact but if you key the favorite Justify in first, box the lowest odds Pletcher horse with Chad Brown in the next 2 spots and then go all for 4th you hit a $20k superfecta for $34. ugh.

niltes · May 8, 2018

what was highly unusual was that the super ($19.6k) paid 140 times
more than the trifecta ($140) with chalks finishing in the top three
spots. think about it this way. if one has the tri, which was not that hard,
then there are only 17 possibilities that can finish fourth. the super
paid over 8 times any random horse finishing fourth and this in a
race with a lot of public money playing randomly. truly amazing from
a mathematical perspective. part of the reason was that this race
had a $1 min on the superfecta rather the normal ten cents.

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