Kentucky Derby Tips From a Gambler Who’s Sick of Losing: David Papadopoulos

It’s been a long time between drinks around here, as critics of this column are fond of pointing out. Ten years, to be exact, and even that win was a real white knuckler — a knock-down, drag-out stretch duel that only saw American Pharoah, my pick, edge away from his rivals in the final yards of the Kentucky Derby.

0 for 9 since. Brutal. And some of those losses were pretty ugly. Outwork jogged across the finish line, dirt-splashed and disinterested, in 14th. Roadster sauntered home in a dazed stupor in 15th. And Rock Your World didn’t seem to understand there was a race going on. He checked in 16th.