Animal Kingdom won the 2011 Kentucky Derby on Saturday afternoon, and made a lot of bettors a lot of money in the process. Animal Kingdom went off at 20-1 odds, and the dark horse thundered past the pack, including favorite Mucho Macho Man, down the stretch, making the 2011 Kentucky Derby payouts a series of eye-popping numbers.
Wager Type Winning Numbers Paid
$1 Double 7/16 $196.50
$1 E5 $0.00
$2 Exacta 16-19 $329.80
$1 Pick-3 1/7/16 $2,369.10
$1 Pick-4 8/1/7/16 $12,292.20
$1 Pick-5 1/8/1/7/16 $427,790.68
$2 Pick-6 2/1/8/1/7/16 $12,251.80
$1 Pick-6 $0.00
$1 Superfecta 16-19-13-14 $24,063.00
$1 Trifecta 16-19-13 $1,976.20
As NBC showed in a graphic, even betting on Animal Kingdom alone paid off:
For more on the Derby, check out SB Nation's 2011 Kentucky Derby StoryStream. Also, our horse racing blog And Down The Stretch They Come has two must-read resources for Derby fans: A Beginner's Guide To Following Horse Racing and a glossary of horse racing terms.
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