Accumulating $158,000 by betting Extra Than Appears to be like within the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1), Steven Wells, a bar proprietor from Fordville, North Dakota, received a record-setting version of the Breeders’ Cup Betting Problem (BCBC).
The sixteenth annual Breeders’ Cup Betting Problem, Thoroughbred racing’s largest live-money event, was held Nov. 1-2 and drew a document 585 entries as high horseplayers wagered on the forty first Breeders’ Cup World Championships’ two-day program at Del Mar Thoroughbred Membership in Del Mar, California.
The event gamers generated practically $7.3 million in wagering deal with, with over $4 million of that whole wagered by a document variety of entries on-track (337) at Del Mar, representing greater than 20% of the overall on-track deal with.
Within the 2024 BCBC, every participant was required to fund a $2,500 buy-in and a $7,500 betting bankroll ($10,000 whole). All buy-in monies had been utilized to the prize pool, making a document whole prize pool of $1,462,500. Gamers made actual wagers (win, place, present, exacta, trifecta and every day double) with their $7,500 bankroll over the 2 days (22 races) and saved all monies earned from their wagering.
Wells, 51, completed with a complete rating of 152,000 factors. Mixed along with his first-place prize of $421,200, he earned a grand whole of $573,200. Tyler Sprague of Las Vegas, NV, completed second, with 130,600 factors, and along with his $280,800 prize cash added, amassed a complete of $411,400. Tyler Hoffman of Sylmar, Calif., completed in third place, garnering 115,500 factors, and mixed with prize cash of $152,100, incomes a grand whole of $267,600.
Along with these wagering at Del Mar, gamers participated within the BCBC from official satellite tv for pc areas at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Seaside, Fla., Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., and Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. Gamers additionally participated on-line at TVG.com―the official wagering associate of Breeders’ Cup―Xpressbet.com, Twinspires.com, NYRABets.com, 4NJBets.com, and HPIbet.com.
Wells, whose father and grandfather owned and raced Quarter Horses rising up in Arizona, has performed within the BCBC since 2014.
“I’m very glad,” he stated. “I’ve received a whole lot of dwell cash tournaments, however that is the largest.”
Wells additionally retains an eye fixed on horses he likes in main stakes, and had his sights on Extra Than Appears to be like since this summer season at Saratoga Race Course, figuring he would possibly get a giant value on him on the Breeders’ Cup.
On Breeders’ Cup Saturday, Wells began his rally when he earned $17,500 betting Thorpedo Anna to win the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) and adopted up with $100 exacta rating on Insurgent’s Romance (IRE) and Rousham Park (JPN) within the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1), which netted $22,000.
Wells did not get the massive value he figured on Extra Than Appears to be like within the Breeders’ Cup Mile however settled for a shade beneath 7-1, and the 4-year-old returned $15.80. A $158,000 bankroll catapulted Wells to event champion.
Second-place finisher Sprague amassed his $130,600 bankroll via all-in wagers on Lake Victoria (IRE) within the John Deere Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) on Friday, then an all-in wager on Henri Matisse (IRE) within the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1). He then rolled that stability right into a $44,000 Win wager on Insurgent’s Romance within the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf on Saturday.
Full event outcomes can be found right here.
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