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Epsom Derby Betting

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Epsom Derby Betting

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The top online bookie for Derby betting is Bet365 (& £200 bonus). The Epsom Derby is the pinnacle of the Flat horse racing season. Here is the Epsom Derby betting from our top four bookmakers (click on the betting odds to visit that particular online bookie):
 

The Epsom Derby Betting (best odds in bold). Run at Epsom on Saturday, June 5.
  Bet365  William Hill Stan James

Victor Chandler

JAN VERMEER

5/2

11/4 11/4 2/1

WORKFORCE

11/2

11/2 5/1 11/2

MIDAS TOUCH

11/2

6/1 11/2 13/2

REWILDING

13/2

7/1 6/1 13/2

BULLET TRAIN

15/2

7/1 8/1 13/2

AZMEEL

12/1

12/1 10/1 12/1

AL ZIR

16/1

18/1 14/1 20/1

COORDINATED CUT

20/1

20/1 16/1 20/1

TED SPREAD

33/1

28/1 40/1 33/1

BUZZWORD

66/1

66/1 50/1 40/1

HOT PROSPECT

66/1

66/1 66/1 66/1

AT FIRST SIGHT

150/1

150/1 150/1 200/1

Each-way bet place terms: 1/4 odds 1-2-3.

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Epsom Derby Tip:
Midas Touch the value @ 13/2

The Derby is likely to be won by trainer Aidan O'Brien. He has the three favourites but it is his 'outsider' Midas Touch that we like the look of at 13/2. Read on . .

Jan Vermeer impressed for O'Brien on his only start this season, the Gallinule Stakes in Ireland but there is a doubt over the quality of his rivals that day. Nevertheless, a lot of money has come for him which could be significant. He is now favourite but surely is little value.

O'Brien has a better value alternative with the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial Stakes victor, Midas Touch. Currently available, as shown in the betting odds comparison table above, at a best price of 13/2 (Victor Chandler). He was an easy winner of the race and has been confirmed for Epsom by the Irish handler. The Derrinstown has twice been won by Aidan O'Brien charges who have gone on to success at Epsom (High Chaparral and Galileo). He looks the each-way value.

O'Brien also had another handy sort in Cape Blanco, who won the Dante Stakes at York. He dented several reputations in The Dante Stakes as he had Workforce (2nd), Coordinated Cut (3rd) behind him that day. He is very likable but is now unlikely to run. His other stablemate, Midas Touch is the attractive price.

Another who has to enter calculations is the Lingfield Derby Trial hero, Bullet Train. The well-bred Henry Cecil-trained son of Saddler's Wells attracted plenty of admirers after a cosy win at the Surrey racecourse. You know this horse will get the Derby trip and a non-stayer would have no chance of winning, so it's a big plus.

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The Epsom Derby, always a fierce betting heat, is on the first Saturday in June. In Britain alone, two hundred million pounds is generated on Epsom Derby Betting. It is unquestionably, the UK’s favourite flat race. It has unrivalled status within the flat racing world. Every jockey, trainer, owner and breeder wants to win it and every punter wants to win it with them.

Over three million people watch the Epsom Derby on UK TV (it is also shown in over two hundred other countries worldwide) and over a hundred thousand people make the pilgrimage to Epsom Downs to watch it on the day. The Epsom Derby boasts betting turnover larger than any single race in the UK except the Grand National.

Does the Epsom Derby generate epic betting turnovers because it is a race that anyone can supposedly win, like the National?

The Epsom Derby runners obviously do not have the challenge of encountering previously unknown obstacles and, just as significantly, having to avoid the other thirty nine horses and riders in the race who may have come to grief less than a stride in front of them. Conventional form is pretty unlikely to be confounded by a pile up. 

It’s no surprise then that, in the past ten years, forty percent of the winners have been favourites or joint favourites. The other sixty percent in that time period came from the top half of the market. So it has been a good race for the punters. That said, four 100-1 shots have prevailed in the past but the most recent was a very long time ago, back in nineteen thirteen. Over the past ten years, the average price in the betting of the Epsom Derby winner has been just under 5-1.

In two thousand and eight, a horse called Maidstone Mixture started at two hundred and fifty to one in the Epsom Derby betting market but had been offered at odds as long as a thousand to one, ante-post. It had a few bookmakers, especially those well represented in Kent (the county in which the town of Maidstone and the horse’s owner is situated).  The long price had attracted a large volume of small bets that could reportedly have cost bookmakers forty million pounds.

They need not have worried.  It was a free giveaway for the bookies, the horse should really have been a million to one and not allowed to sully the great race. After racing prominently early on in the race, the horse finished last of the sixteen runners, tailed off by nearly forty lengths.  The seven to two favourite, Casual Conquest, also failed to impress and finished third as New Approach claimed victory at the price of five to one.

First run in seventeen eighty, the Epsom Derby is one of the world’s longest established horse races. Of the English Classics, only the St Leger is older, stealing a head start circa seventeen seventy six. 

According to the record books, the name of the race was decided on the toss of a coin between friends – the twelfth Earl of Derby and Sir Charles Bunbury – both of whom wanted to create a contest to test the best three year old racehorses. The Earl of Derby obviously won the toss on the naming of the race (or it would have been known as ‘The Bunbury’ rather than The Derby) but Sir Charles’ horse, Diomed, triumphed in the inaugural running over a mile across the Epsom Downs.

The race distance may have changed to one mile four furlongs, but the rule about three year old contestants (colts and fillies) has remained unaltered.  Because of that age restriction, we are obviously denied repeat performances from the main players, the horses.  There can be no equivalent of the Grand National multi-race winning hero horses like Red Rum to help promote the Epsom Derby’s popularity.

Fortunately there are no such age restrictions on the Epsom Derby jockeys. Some have built a formidable record in the race, most notably Lester Piggott with nine victories.  He achieved his first Epsom Derby success at just eighteen years of age in nineteen fifty four with Never Say Die and his ninth almost thirty years later in nineteen eighty three on Teenoso. More recently, Mick Kinane won the two thousand and nine Epsom Derby, his third, on Sea The Stars, at the age of fifty.  He has now also retired.

Are there jockeys riding now who are worth following to help you to achieve Epsom Derby betting success?

Possibly. In the past ten years both Kieren Fallon and Johnny Murtagh have achieved three victories. Neither has won exclusively for a single trainer although two of Fallon’s successes were achieved on board  Sir Michael Stoute’s horses. Whoever rides for Aidan O’Brien has, you would think, to stand a good chance of repeated success. O’Brien saddled six of the twelve runners in two thousand and nine, but his two thousand and nine Epsom Derby favourite, Fame and Glory (sent off at nine to four), was famously beaten by the brilliant John Oxx-trained Sea the Stars (second favourite at eleven to four).

That year’s Epsom Derby also demonstrates that you might be better off trusting the betting market rather than the stable jockey’s judgement when it comes to picking the best of the Aidan O’Brien runners. Murtagh chose to ride the 6-1 shot, Rip Van Winkle, who finished behind not just O’Brien’s Fame and Glory but Masterofthehorse too, giving him an unexpected rear view of both Heffernan and Hughes at the finishing line.

The favourite in the Epsom Derby betting market this year is Jan Vermeer. Murtagh will be partnering the Aidan O’Brien trained hotpot but, unlike the previous year, there is not another fancied horse snapping at his heels in the betting market.

History has proven that three year olds can be unpredictable, fragile creatures so the value seekers will be sharpening their pencils to make alternative selections. Each-way and place bets are currently looking more interesting than usual with a quarter of the odds being offered on horses filling the first three places in the Epsom Derby betting by some bookmakers like Bet365.

 


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1. Bet365

2. Stan James

3. William Hill

4. Victor Chandler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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