NBO: Kentucky Derby - Bourbon Barrel Edition

this was run a couple years ago (last year was a fail), and i really enjoyed it. back in college, my friends and i would get together and throw in $10 and draw horses names out of a hat, and if your horse won, it was a great day with the winner taking the pot. with it being derby time again, i am going to try the same thing, but with bourbon (or other) barrel aged beer. the cost of admission is 22 ounces of 90+ rated bourbon barrel aged beer, and you have to ship by 5/21. not yet sure how many horses there will be this year, but its usually a big field, so this will be open on a first come first served basis. please message me your contact info and/or post it here. i will enter all those interested in a random number generator, and the number you get is the horse you will own. the list of horses will be posted here when announced, so if youre 5th on the random generator list, you will have the horse at the 5th starting position. make sense? good. previous years are below as i plan on doing this for all three races.

2015 Derby - http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/kentucky-derby-bourbon-barrel-edition.287134/

2015 Preakness - http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/preakness-stakes-bourbon-barrel-edition.288346/

2015 – Belmont - http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/belmont-stakes-bourbon-barrel-edition.293503/

2014 Derby - http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/bourbon-barrel-derby.175408/page-2#post-2455187

payouts if 20 horses: first place will receive 12 boxes, second 4 boxes, and third 1 box. im open to changing the payouts, but this makes the most sense to me.

 

we can do 11, 6, and 3, makes no difference to me. and no, you dont need to put up a beer in advance.

 

so we have nine already committed, and the field is usually in the high teens to 20ish ponies. good start!

 

we are up to 13 participants.

exactly what @Dave_Treat said, totally random.