Only $435,282 was bet on Mine That Bird to win, according to the Philadelphia Daily News. That’s out of a total race handle of $104,563,501. So while everyone always says to throw the money on the longshots, that didn’t happen. Only 0.4 percent of the money went to Mind That Bird, who went off at 50-to-1.
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There were 23 people who correctly bet that Mine That Bird would win, followed by Pioneerof the Nile, Musket Man and Papa Clem. Their $1 superfecta bets will pay to the tune of $278,503, before taxes of course.
It’s the biggest $1 superfecta payoff since 2005, when Giacomo’s underdog win yielded an incredible $864,253 to the seven lucky winners.
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This is actually one of the few years where you could have actually bet every Superfecta combination and still made money. If you bet $1 on every combination of the 19 horses, you would have only spent $93,024. But if you did this for every Derby, you’d lose most of the time. Heading into this year, the average $1 superfecta win was worth $106,583, and with 20 horses in the field you would have spent $116,280.
