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Originally Posted by mostpost
This is from a book that Churchill Downs published on the occasion of the 100th Derby. The book has charts of every Derby up to 1973. From 1904 to 1973 favorites won twenty four of sixty nine derbys; a percentage of 34.8%. I think that is pretty close to normal for winning favorites. Prior to 1904 they do not give the odds.
What time frame do your stats cover and what is the percentage, if I may ask?
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Since you have the stats, I already said I have none for distant Derbys, why not give them for the past 10 years. I'm going from memory alone, no stats, because I'm not a stats kind of player.
