Delosvientos Will Look to Wire Inaugural Running of the Breeders’ Cup Marathon

For the first time in its history the Breeders’ Cup will run a 1 ½ mile race on something other than grass. The race, the Breeders’ Cup Marathon, will be run on the Pro-Ride surface at Santa Anita.

In most years, this race would be run on conventional dirt but like every track on the West Coast, Santa Anita has an artificial surface. For online betting fans, the affects on making horse bets on the Pro-Ride surface has been minimal. That is to write that Pro-Ride has produced front running as well as long shot running winners in most races.

But will that continue? Maybe. It could be that like Polytrack, Pro-Ride ends up being the sort of surface that requires online betting fans to make online wagers on pressers and closers in order to cash tickets. Or, it could be that Pro-Ride really is the fairest, and therefore best, artificial surface available.

In any case, the Pro-Ride surface should have little to no affect on the expected favorite in the Breeders’ Cup Marathon, Delosvientos.

How good is Delosvientos at 1 ½ miles? He’s four for four. That’s an incredible record in a marathon race where usually more than one speedster shows up. That could be the case on Breeders’ Cup day as the front running Delosvientos no doubt will have to contend with the speedy Fairbanks should Fairbanks make it to the gate.

Fairbanks, by the way, is a Todd Pletcher trained monster out of Giant’s Causeway. Fairbanks was bought for over 1.8 million and although he hasn’t come close to satisfying the owners who put up that amount of money to get him into the barn, he is plenty good enough to give Delosvientos a run for his money.

In fact I pretty much have to go with Fairbanks in the Breeders’ Cup Marathon should he make the race. As good as Delosvientos has been at 1 ½ miles, Fairbanks is the much classier animal. He’s also the only animal that Delosvientos will have faced at 1 ½ miles that can stick to him early.

That should make Fairbanks a likely 7 to 5 overlay in the Breeders’ Cup Marathon.

Did I just write 7 to 5 overlay? Why, yes, I did! How can there be such a thing as a 7 to 5 overlay in a Breeders’ Cup race?

When the chalk, Delosvientos in this case, goes off at 3 to 5 that’s how! Delosvientos should dominate the online wagering in the Breeders’ Cup Marathon.

But BetUS online racebook betting fans had better think twice before dumping on Delosvientos in this race.

Again, if Fairbanks makes it, then he deserves to be the online betting play that online racebook fans make. Go with class in the Breeders’ Cup. It’s a rule that all online racebook fans should stick by.