The Win Bet and The Belmont Stakes
Obviously, we have a huge weekend and day of racing ahead. All racing eyes will be on The Belmont Festival at Saratoga. There will be a plethora of wagers to consider including some that span two days. You’ll have more pick 3’s, 4’s and 5’s to choose from than a routine weekend. Triples, superfectas galore and of course go after the ones you do best at and have the strongest opinions on.
It might pay to remember the old faithful and often forgotten win bet. The win bet is a great anchor and can save the day or wager. Beating one race, especially on a card with so many possibilities, can be easier than beating a sequence. It minimizes the chance of some kind of fluky upset or result you just couldn’t anticipate. We know it happens.
It can feel bad when your single in a sequence wins but you get knocked out in a different leg where you didn’t single. Consider win bets and consider them more so when the odds are higher.
In The Belmont Stakes although a small field if you like someone other than Journalism or Sovereignty than a win bet is in my view a no brainer, regardless of what else you build around that race. If you like me, think Baeza is sitting on a career race, then a win bet along with anything else you are going to do makes all the sense in the world. Plus, if you opt into AmWager’s 0% Takeout promotion for the Belmont Stakes your win bet is going to pay more!
People often just skip over betting to win. I don’t and I have made and won some big ones. I assure it feels as good as any form of winning!