One of the more exciting sports betting opportunities with horse racing has to do with picking the order in which specific horses will finish. The exacta bet involves which two horses will finish first (“win”) and second (“place”). Adding the third-place horse (picking the horse to “show”) rounds out the trifecta bet. If you want to add the fourth-place horse, you’re picking the superfecta. How would these wagers have paid off at Belmont a year ago? Well, Tapwrit (4/1 odds) won the whole thing, passing favorite Irish War Cry (5/2) down the stretch, and then Patch (12/1) (who just has one eye) came in third. If you’d put down a $2 trifecta pick correctly, you would have walked away with $624. The $2 superfecta would have paid out $4,486, with Gormley (9/1) coming in fourth. It’s hard to match that kind of return on investment with mutual funds — if you can get it. Take a look at our horse racing betting thoughts for the finishers at the 2018 Belmont Park on Saturday.
Trifecta, Superfecta and Exacta Picks for the 2018 Belmont Stakes
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2018 Belmont Stakes Contenders and Odds
- Justify 4/5
- Hofburg 4/1
- Bravazo 7/1
- Vino Rosso 8/1
- Tenfold 10/1
- Blended Citizen 14/1
- Gronkowski 25/1
- Noble Indy 33/1
- Free Drop Billy 50/1