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Hofburg winning the 2018 Belmont Stakes would pay out $750 for every $100 bet or $75 for every $10 bet. SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE
WHY SUCH SHORT ODDS
The 2nd place finisher at the Preakness Stakes following a decent 6th place showing in the Kentucky Derby. Both races were in the mud.
Bravazo was the winner of the Risen Stakes.
Bravazo logged a one-mile breeze in 1:42.60 over Churchill Downs’ fast main track on Thursday ahead of showdown with Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness winner Justify in the 150th Belmont Stakes (G1).
“Beautiful,” trainer D. Wayne Lukas said. “I just wanted to open his lungs a little bit. You have to be a tough horse to compete in the Triple Crown series and I think we have a tough horse. He’s fit. It wasn’t a fitness thing. But I want to get him mentally where I want him. Now I’m pretty much through.
“He wasn’t blowing much at all,” the Hall of Fame conditioner added. “It was really a nice morning for him, very pleased. Everybody who works a horse usually has something nice to say, but it was a good work.”
Bravazo and Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Justify are the only two sophomores this year to compete in all three legs of the Triple Crown.
2018 BELMONT STAKES ODDS
- Don Shapiro, Gambling911.com
