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2020 Holybull.ca Kentucky Derby Contest

 

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

Johan Cruyff

Believer

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Isaac Asimov

2020 Kentucky Derby 146 PPs

Pick the first 4 Official finishers and their place of finishing in the 2020 Kentucky Derby, Saturday September 5, 2020

Post time favourite will be substituted for any scratched horses unless you have already chosen the post time favourite or more than one of your choices is scratched, then second favourite will be substituted, unless you have already chosen the second favourite or more than one of your choices is scratched then the third favourite will be substituted, unless you have already chosen the third favourite or more than one of your choices is scratched then the fourth favorite will be substituted and so on. Phil feels like the old lady who swallowed the fly.

Points awarded:
1 – 57
2 – 33 1/3
3 – 13
4 – π

Tie Breaker: $1.00 payout for the 2020 Kentucky Derby Superfecta

Price is Right Rules: Closest without going over.

If a tie breaker is not submitted with your entry you will receive the default tie breaker: $log(π)(Sum(YourHorse1:YourHorse4)²

10 bonus points awarded for the song that most aptly describes the horse you pick to win the 2020 Kentucky Derby or how your horse will win in this Topsy Turvy year.

E.G.

Whatever It Takes

The Rose

Pictures Of Lily

The Rose

Every Picture Tells a Story

Let’s Go

Ride of the Valkyries

When the Sun Rose Again

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near one.

J.R.R. Tolkien

All entries must be received by Saturday September 5, 2020, 1:59:59 PM MDT.

E-mail your selections to: rumours@holybull.ca

Limit of 3 entries per e-mail address, no restrictions on any employment or familial ties. Phil heard that Sal will be entering this year.

Type – Holybull.ca 2020 Kentucky Derby Contest in Subject Line.

Include your choices in order of finish, your $1 Superfecta guess, your song to describe your winning horse or how your horse wins Phil respects and will reward irony,  your stage name, favourite city in the state of Complacency, T-Shirt size if you plan on finishing first (Phil has only one size fits many left, but go through the exercise anyway) and mailing address.

First Prize – Hollywood Park, 1 – 750 ml Woodford Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, $50 gift certificate to a restaurant within 100 km of either your favourite city in the state of Complacency or a city of Phil’s selection, A one size fits many Holybull t-shirt and a Sur Prize.

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Second Prize – $50 gift certificate to a restaurant within 100km of either your favourite city in the state of Complacency or a city of Phil’s selection.

Third Prize – $20 gift certificate to a restaurant within 100km of either your favourite city in the state of Complacency or a city of Phil’s selection.

Contest open to all residents of the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Burgundy, Free State, Gauteng, Provence, Saskatchewan, Javakheti, Manitoba, Mpumalanga, Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, states of Alabama, Amusement, Alaska, Anticipation, Apathy, Arizona, Arkansas, Authenticity, California, Contentment, Colorado, Complacency, Connecticut, Despondence, Delaware, Elation, Florida, Empowerment, Hawaii, Exhilaration, Idaho, Indignation, Indiana, Euphoria, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Exasperation, Louisiana, Lethargy, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Misery, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Tranquility, New Jersey, Bewilderment, New Hampshire, Lethargy, New Mexico, Fear, New York, Emancipation, North Dakota, Ohio, Enlightenment, Oregon, Panic, Pennsylvania, Paranoia, Rhode Island, Satisfaction, South Carolina, Serenity, South Dakota, Torpidity, Tennessee, Frustration, Texas, Entanglement, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Bewilderment, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Oblivion, Southeastern (Dông Nam Bo) Region, territories of Northwest, Nunavut and Yukon, especially the campus city of Whitehorse and all of Georgia.

Contestants from other regions may apply for Phil’s Philal Bull.

2020 146th Kentucky Derby

KENTUCKY DERBY  – GI, $3,000,000, 3yo,

1 1/4m, Saturday, September 5, 2020

Post Time: 7:01 p.m. ET 5:01 MDT

1. Finnick the Fierce

Rey Hernandez Martin Garcia 50-1

2. Max Player

Steve Asmussen Ricardo Santana Jr. 30-1

3. Enforceable

Mark Casse Adam Beschizza 30-1

4. Storm the Court

Peter Eurton Julien Leparoux 50-1

5. Major Fed

Greg Foley James Graham 50-1

6. King Guillermo

Juan Avila Sammy Camacho 20-1

7. Money Moves

Todd Pletcher Javier Castellano 30-1

8. South Bend

Bill Mott Tyler Gaffalione 50-1

9. Mr. Big News

Bret Calhoun Gabriel Saez 50-1

10. Thousand Words

Bob Baffert Florent Geroux 15-1

11. Necker Island

Chris Hartman Miguel Mena 50-1

12. Sole Volante

Patrick Biancone Luca Panici 30-1

13. Attachment Rate

Dale Romans Joe Talamo 50-1

14. Winning Impression

Dallas Stewart Joe Rocco Jr. 50-1

15. Ny Traffic

Saffie Joseph Jr. Paco Lopez 20-1

16. Honor A. P.

John Shirreffs Mike Smith 5-1

17. Tiz the Law

Barclay Tagg Manny Franco 3-5

18. Authentic

Bob Baffert John Velazquez 8-1

 

Void where the prohibition of fun tiz the law.
Cabin Rules apply.

 

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