Big Three Pick Three Returns $121
Updated: Sunday, April 15, 2001 3:08 PM
Posted: Sunday, April 15, 2001 3:08 PM
The Big Three Pick Three wager, which linked Saturday's three major Kentucky Derby prep races, returned $121 for every $2 wagered on the correct combination.
Congaree won the first leg as the second choice in the Wood Memorial at just under 2-1. Millennium Wind provided the highest win mutuel in the three-race wager, paying $10.20 to win as 4-1 fourth choice in the Blue Grass Stakes. Balto Star, a wire-to wire winner of the Arkansas Derby at 8-5, was the only favorite to win a leg of the wager.
Total handle on the wager was $1,166,177, according to Equibase.
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