To Honor And Serve - 2011 Breeders' Cup Classic Traditional Cache
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To Honor And Serve - 2011 Breeders' Cup Classic
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The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Thoroughbred horse races that usually takes place the first weekend of November each year. The event was created as a year-end championship for North American Thoroughbred racing and is widely-considered the "Super Bowl" of horse racing as the races typically have the largest purses and draw the best Thoroughbreds from across the world. In 2011, the 28th Breeders' Cup World Championship is being held in Louisville, KY, at the home of the Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs.
This cache series is a tribute to each horse running in the Breeders' Cup Classic, the richest and best race on the card, as well as horse racing handicapping tips that you might, at some point in time, find useful.
To Honor And Serve is a three year old Kentucky bred owned by Live Oak Plantation, trained by William "Billy" Mott, and ridden by jockey Jose Lezcano. To Honor and Serve has nine career starts, including a win in the 2011 Pennsylvania Derby. Over his career, he has won $996,340 and five races. He is listed on the morning line as having 12-1 odds to win the race, but his final odds history shows the public always thinks highly of him.
This brings us to our horse handicapping lesson for this cache. What are the final odds, you ask? Remember, we learned earlier that the track offical handicapper sets the morning line odds before any bets are placed on the race (if you didn't learn this you haven't done all of the caches in this series, you weren't paying attention when you should have been, or you don't care about the final cache in this series). Regardless, once the public starts betting on a race, the odds change because horse racing is based on the paramutual betting system where all monies bet on a horse affect the odds of all of the horses entered in a race (it's only math, right Ike?). A horse can start on the morning line at 3-1, but end up at 30-1 if the public doesn't bet on it (this is called an overlay). The final or "closing" odds can be found in the Daily Racing Form's Past Performances as "Odds" immediately before the "Top Finishers" category in the running line of each race.
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