Preakness Stakes 2018: What did the superfecta pay out?

The superfecta can be one of the most lucrative bets you can make horse racing. Here’s what the superfecta paid out at the 2018 Preakness Stakes.

At the 2017 Preakness Stakes, the superfecta bet — a bet that correctly picks the top four finishers in the correct order — paid out $8,162 on a $1 bet. For gamblers at the 2018 running of the Stakes, the pay out was, while not nearly in that league, still a sweet return: $372.60 on a $1 bet.

Justify-Bravazo-Tenfold-Good Magic went 1-2-3-4, despite Good Magic leading at times and pushing Justify every step of the first half of the race. The pace was slower than the Derby, but Justify won handedly once again.

Entering the race, Justify and Good Magic — the Kentucky Derby winner and runner-up — owned the top odds, though close enough at 1-2 and 3-1 to give any superfecta bettor pause as to how to order them. But correctly guessing 3-4 was even more of a challenge, with a coin-toss between Lone Sailor and Quip for third and fourth — assuming you don’t believe in long shots at all. (As the Derby superfecta showed, you can’t rule out a long shot, even a 85-1 long shot. That superfecta paid out a sweet $19,618 on a $1 bet.) And so that was the case here too, both Bravazo and Tenfold started the morning with 20-1 odds

In any case, the odds were only half useful in picking out the winners and to get cash in a superfecta, you had to have the confidence to drop Good Magic all the way to fourth.

Elsewhere in Preakness Stakes betting, the trifecta bet paid out $148.30 for correctly picking the top three finishers.

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