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Churchill Downs Dates For 2006 Kentucky Derby Oak Future Wager Pools

The four-day Derby and Oaks Future pools will run concurrently and, for the first time in the history of either wager, the first of each of their three pools will be conducted in late January. Pending final approval , the dates for the 2006 Derby and Oaks Future Wager pools are:

POOL 1 - Jan. 26-29
POOL 2 - March 2-5
POOL 3 - April 6-9

The Thursday-Sunday pools for both the Derby and Oaks will open at Noon (all times Eastern) on Thursday. The Kentucky Derby Future Wager pools will close at 6 p.m. on Sunday and the Kentucky Oaks Pools will close a half-hour later at 6:30 p.m.

Previously, the opening pools for the Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which is entering its eighth year, and the Kentucky Oaks Future Wager, which has been conducted in each of the last three years, had been scheduled in February. The upcoming schedule includes a late January opening as Churchill Downs makes an effort to keep the three pools and the Oaks and Derby separated by at least a month. The gap between the final pools of each wager and the Kentucky Oaks, which is set for May 5, and the Derby, which is set for May 6, is just shy of a month.

The Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks Future Wagers are minimum $2 wagers and are win bets only. The wagers offer racing fans the opportunity to bet on Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks contenders at odds that could be greater than those they would receive on the day of each race. There are no refunds in either the KDFW or KOFW.

Winning payouts in all Kentucky Derby and Oaks Future Wager pools are based on the odds that are in place on each wagering interest at the conclusion of each respective pool.

Each pool of the Derby and Oaks Future Wagers will include 24 betting interests that include 23 individual horses. The 24th wagering interest for the Derby Future Wager is a mutuel field that includes all other 3-year-olds. The final betting interest in the Oaks Future Wager is a mutuel field that includes all other 3-year-old fillies.

Kentucky Derby Future Wager Statistics

Winning payout Pool 1 Pool 2 Pool 3 Derby payout

2005 (Giacomo) $52.00 $54.20 $103.60 $102.60

2004 (Smarty Jones) $5.60 $10.80 $23.60 $10.20

2003 (Funny Cide) $188.00**** $120.80 $107.40 $27.60

2002 (War Emblem*) $7.60 $16.00 $24.00 $43.00

2001 (Monarchos) $36.60 $13.00 $15.80 $23.00

2000 (Fusaichi Pegasus) $27.80 $26.40 $8.00** $6.60

1999 (Charismatic*) $10.20** $30.20 $26.60 $64.60

* - Charismatic (1999) and War Emblem (2002) were members of the mutuel field in all three pools in their respective years
** - Favorite
*** - Single pool wagering record
****Record KDFW win payout

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