Horse racing bettors will, have their eyes on a few places on Saturday, but certainly a lot of attention will be focused on Belmont Park where eight horses of talent acquiesce to to the passage in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. We thought we might take you on a tour of that race – by the numbers. Maybe some of it force be helpful. In the horse racing betting odds, Blame, who beat Standing Road last time in the Whitney Handicap, is the +160 favorite.
Horse Racing Betting Odds
To Win Jockey Club Gold Cup
Saturday, October 3 — Belmont Park
Post-time 5:48 PM ET
1 Fly Down +450
2 Blame +160
3 Mythical Power +1000
4 Tranquil Manner +1500
5 Dry Martini +1500
6 Haynesfield +800
7 Hold Me Back +1500
8 Rail Trip +250
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You say you wanted facts and figures? Well, here you go:
- Two of the horses in Saturday’s field have attained Beyer Speed Figures as capital as 111. Censure Gambol (+250 in the horse racing betting odds) got there in winning the 2009 Hollywood Gold Cup, while Blame achieved that number in his last race, the Whitney at Saratoga, where he shape out Quality Road.
- Blame, who is the +160 betting favorite in this race, is the leading filthy rich winner among all these starters, with lifetime earnings of $1,518,214. Second on that list is Dry Martini, which is at +1500 in Jockey Club Gold Cup betting, which has lost seven races in a row but has $1,315,506 in earnings.
- Three-year-olds have won this race in three of the in four years. Shoot Down, at +450 in horse racing betting, is the alone three-year-old entered on Saturday.
- Blame is the only horse in this channel who is coming off a victory.
- Haynesfield (+800 to win on Saturday) has the most Belmont starts among these horses. He is four of five at the track. Four horses in this field have never made a start at Belmont Park. They are Find fault with, the favorite, along with Folkloric Power, Rail Trip and Clutch Me Break weighing down on, who checks in as one of the longshots at +1500 in horse racing betting for the Gold Cup.
- The horse with the most experience overall is Shrink Martini, with 33 lifetime starts. The least experience? Fly Down (+450 to win), with only eight trips to the gate.
- Four of the eight horses in this field father never made a start at the mile and a half distance. They are Blame, Mythical Power (+1000), Haynesfield and Tranquil Manner, which is priced at +1500 in the betting odds into Saturday’s race.
- Tranquil Manner, by the way, is the horse that went eccentric at the longest odds – in his last race, priced at better than 19to-1 for the Grade I Woodward Stakes on September 4. He came third, behind Quality Road and Mythical Power.
- Calm Ceremony is the only horse in this field who has not registered a Beyer Speed Figure of 100 or above. His best was 98 on August 11 at Saratoga.
- Dry Martini is the only horse in this grassland that is coming off a turf race. That was three weeks ago, the Bowling Green Handicap at Belmont, where the seven-year-old came sixth, with a Beyer of 84. In fact, Sear Martini’s last two races have been on stamping-ground.
- Lam out Down (which is +150 in search a top two finish in horse racing betting for Saturday) is the only horse that want be carrying 122 pounds, and he gets that by virtue of being a three-year-old in this field. All other horses on carry 126 pounds.
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