2023 Holybull.ca Kentucky Derby 149 Contest

Should I Stay Or Should I Go

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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1973 Kentucky Derby

50th Anniversary of Secretariat’s 1973 Triple Crown

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Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

Fast Eddie Felson

2023 Kentucky Derby 149 Scratches

9 – Skinner

10 – Practical Move

15 – Forte

19 – Lord Miles

20 – Continuar

AEs all draw in

21 – Cyclone Mischief – Post – 16

22 – Mandarin Hero – Post – 17

23 – King Russell – Post – 18

Pick the first 4 Official finishers and their place of finishing in the 2023 Kentucky Derby 149, Saturday May 6, 2023

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

Type – Holybull.ca 2023 Kentucky Derby 149 Contest in Subject Line.

Include your horses in order of finish, your $1 Superfecta guess, your T-shirt size (Phil has only a couple of sizes, but go through the motions anyway), your song that most aptly describes how the 2023 Kentucky Derby 149 will be won in this Baffertless year even if it’s not your horse that wins, Phil respects wit and irony and Phil’s a pretty simple guy and will reward accordingly,  your guess at which barrel Phil voted for (shouldn’t be a guess if you pay attention), your stage name and mailing address.

All entries must be received by Saturday May 6, 2023, 2:59:59 PM MDT.

Limit of 4 entries per e-mail address and 4 e-mail addresses per person; no restrictions on any employment or familial ties.

If one or more of the horses you select is scratched before post time, the post time favourite will be substituted for any scratched horse 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 and he wanders why.

The Letter

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

Tie Breaker: $1.00 payout for the 2023 Kentucky Derby 149 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:

$(1/l0g(π))*(Sum(YourHorse1:YourHorse4)²)

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.

John Keats

10 bonus points awarded for the song that most aptly describes how Kentucky Derby 149 will be won in this baffling Baffertless year.

E.G.

Let’s Dance

Anvil Chorus

Angel From Montgomery

Smoke and Mirrors

Magic Man

People’s Champ

Phil has a song or two or three percolating in his head that if you choose Phil’ll award you a $50 gift certificate to an unchained or small chain restaurant within 100 km of your mailing address or a city of Phil’s selection no matter how any of your horses run. Phil will give you a hint: This song may have appeared on Holybull.ca before; it might even have been in a contest post or it might be just floating around unchained to the ground and not in Phil’s head yet. And it’s not The Rose or Ooh Las Vegas or Under Pressure or Good Vibrations or Hard Sun or  Mess We’re in or Girl or In the Air Tonight or Redemption Song or any other song that comes easily to mind. Remember that Phil’s favourite pitch is a hard breaking curve and even Crazy,  Sign of the Times and some country artists have appeared.

The curve is more powerful than the sword.

Mae West

Blatant sentimentality will cause a stewards review leading to a possible DQ – Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now).

Time travels in diverse paces with diverse persons. I’ll tell you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal, who time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

William Shakespeare

‘Barrels of HeART’ Presents Kentucky’s 1st Bourbon Barrel Art Exhibit for Charity

[Vote for Your Favorite Artist]

Phil says he’ll give you 10 points in the 2023 HolyBull.ca Kentucky Derby 149 contest if you can correctly guess which barrel Phil voted for.

Phil heard a rumour that Sal was planning on entering again this year and will, but Sal will not be playing for a prize.

Darling Be Home Soon

Study is a practical move for this years handicapping since there’s 116,280 different combinations in a 20 horse field.

Successful handicappers know every detail in regard to the horses upon which they are intending to place their money.

Pittsburgh Phil

La Grange

Derby Winning Dish

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Phil has a question:

How could a person named Marco Pierre White go through life without being confused.

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2007 Epsom Derby

First Prize – 1 – Frankie Dettori’s Italian Family Cookbook  (Used, (skimmed, but not used)), 1 – Kentucky Derby 149 1 litre Bottle Woodford Reserve Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, 1 – Star T-Shirt and 1 – $50 gift certificate to an unchained or small chain restaurant within 100 km of your mailing address or a city of Phil’s selection plus a surprize.

Second Prize – 1 – $50 gift certificate to an unchained or small chain restaurant within 100km of your mailing address or a city of Phil’s selection plus a surprize.

Third Prize – 1 – $20 gift certificate to an unchained or small chain restaurant within 100km of your mailing address or a city of Phil’s selection plus a surprize.

If you can’t take the heat, don’t tickle the dragon.

Scott Fahlman

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, Amazement, Amusement, Alaska, Anticipation, Annoyance, Apathy, Arizona, Arkansas, Authenticity, Bewilderment, California, Contentment, Colorado, Complacency, Connecticut, Deflation, Despondence, Delaware, Discontentment, Elation, Florida, Empowerment, Hawaii, Exhilaration, Frustration, Idaho, Indignation, Indiana, Euphoria, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Exasperation, Louisiana, Lethargy, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Misery, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Tranquility, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Lethargy, New Mexico, Fear, New South Wales, New York, Emancipation, North Dakota, Ohio, Enlightenment, Oregon, Panic, Pennsylvania, Paranoia, Queensland, Rhode Island, Satisfaction, South Carolina, Serenity, South Dakota, Torpidity, Tennessee, Texas, Entanglement, Utah, Vermont, Victoria, 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, any country, province, state, city or territory starting with an X or a Z and all of Georgia.

In line with the current sanctions no entries will be accepted from Russia or Belarus.

Contestants from other regions are free to apply for Phil’s Temporary Exemption Status Cymbal.

In all the years that Phil and Sal have offered their contests with prizes paid from their own pockets not even one person from Horse Racing Alberta ever had the guts to enter.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Hunter S. Thompson

Wouldn’t you think that the Undertaker would think that a meal paid for by Phil or Sal was more succulent or a shot of Woodford paid for by Sal or Phil was more satisfying if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Phil has a question:

If the Shill, The Queen Killer Bee, Captain and Tenile, the Undertaker or Clark Kent ever had the balls to enter a Holybull.ca contest what would they use for their stage name.

Q: Who’s a chicken’s favorite composer?

A: Bach, Bach, Bach.

If the skies were able to dream, they would dream of dragons.

Ilona Andrews

2023 Kentucky Derby 149 May 6 PPs

2023 Kentucky Derby 149 sans Baffert

KENTUCKY DERBY  – GI, $3,000,000, 3yo

No Baffert trained thoroughbreds permitted.

1 1/4 Miles Saturday, May 6, 2023

Post Time: 6:57 p.m. ET 4:57 MDT

	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Odds
1	Hit Show	Brad H Cox	Manuel Franco	30 – 1
2	Verifying	Brad H Cox	Tyler Gaffalione	15 – 1
3	Two Phil’s	Larry Rivelli	Jareth  Loveberry	12 – 1
4	Confidence Game	Keith Desormeaux	James Graham	20 – 1
5	Tapit Trice	Todd Pletcher	Luiz Saez	5 – 1
6	Kingsbarns	Todd Pletcher	Jose Ortiz	12 – 1
7	Reincarnate	Tim Yakteen	John R Velazquez	50 – 1
8	Mage	Gustavo Delgado	Javier Castellano	15 – 1
9	Skinner	John Shireffs	Juan Hernandez	20 – 1
10	Practical Move	Tim Yakteen	Ramon Vasquez	10 – 1
11	Disarm	Steve Assmussen	Joel Rosario	30 -1
12	Jace’s Road	Brad H Cox	Florent Geroux	15 – 1
13	Sun Thunder	Ken McPeek	Brian Hernandez Jr.	30 – 1
14	Angel of Empire	Brad H Cox	Flavien Prat	8 – 1
15	Forte	Todd Pletcher	Irad Ortiz Jr.	3 – 1
16	Raise Cain	Ben Colebrook	Gerado Corrales	50 – 1
17	Derma Sotogake (JPN)	Hidetaka Otonashi	Christophe Lemaire	10 – 1
18	Rocket Can	William Mott	Junior Alvarado	15 – 1
19	Lord Miles	Joseph A Saffie Jr.	Paco Lopez	15 – 1
20	Continuar	Yoshito Yahagi	Ryusei Sakai	50 – 1
21	Cyclone Mischief	Dale Romans	Joel Rosario	30 – 1
22	Mandarin Hero	Terunobu Fujita	Kazushi Kimura	20 – 1
23	King Russell	Ron Moquett	Rafael Bejarano	50 – 1

Pick the first 4 Official finishers and their place of finishing in the 2023 Kentucky Derby 149, Saturday May 6, 2023

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

Type – Holybull.ca 2023 Kentucky Derby 149 Contest in Subject Line.

Include your horses in order of finish, your $1 Superfecta guess, your T-shirt size (Phil has only a couple of sizes, but go through the motions anyway), your song that most aptly describes how the 2023 Kentucky Derby 149 will be won in this Baffertless year even if it’s not your horse that wins, Phil respects wit and irony and Phil’s a pretty simple guy and will reward accordingly,  your guess at which barrel Phil voted for (shouldn’t be a guess if you pay attention), your stage name and mailing address.

All entries must be received by Saturday May 6, 2023, 2:59:59 PM MDT.

Limit of 4 entries per e-mail address and 4 e-mail addresses per person; no restrictions on any employment or familial ties.

Void where the prohibition of fun is essential for the controlling agenda.

Cabin Rules apply.

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