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Kentucky Oaks 2018: What did the trifecta pay out?

By Shea Corrigan

LOUISVILLE, KY - MAY 06: Outriders are seen on the track wearing pink jackets in support of breast cancer awareness during the 137th Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 6, 2011 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
LOUISVILLE, KY - MAY 06: Outriders are seen on the track wearing pink jackets in support of breast cancer awareness during the 137th Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 6, 2011 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images) /
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The trifecta is one of the most complicated — and lucrative — bets you can make at a horse race. Here’s what the 2018 Kentucky Oaks trifecta paid out.

To win a trifecta bet, you must correctly pick the three horses that will win, place and show and you must also correctly pick the order in which they do so. It’s a tricky bet to get right — especially when, in the case of the 2018 Kentucky Oaks field, so many of the horses shared similar odds.

Midnight Bisou (5-2) and Monomoy Girl (2-1) were favorites and if you picked them in the right order, you were in luck. Monomoy Girl won with Wonder Gadot (20-1) placing second and Midnight Bisou showing. If you bet on those three horses in that correct order, you were taking home $180 on a $1 bet.

(The superfecta, in which you named Eskimo Kisses as the fourth place finisher, paid out $1,387 on a $1 bet. The exacta, in which you only named Monomoy Girl and Wonder Gadot as 1-2 paid out $96 on a $2 bet.)

In 2017, the trifecta paid out  $2,863 to those who correctly picked Abel Tasman-Daddy’s Little Darling-Lockdown to win, place and show at the Kentucky Oaks on a $1 bet. So, for those who were hoping a repeat of last year’s magic, the fact two of three horses had very good odds tamed the excitement some.

Still, it’s a nice little purse to take into the Derby, where this year truly feels like anything can happen. The betting (and horse racing) festivities continue on Saturday, May 5 with the Kentucky Derby, which promises higher stakes and bigger profiles.

Next: All the 2018 Derby horses, ranked by names

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