Pick six carryover of $201,242 for Thursday
There will be a pick six carryover of $201,242 into Thursday’s card at Saratoga after nothing but longshots came in on Wednesday.
David GreningSep 02, 2015
There will be a pick six carryover of $201,242 into Thursday’s card at Saratoga after nothing but longshots came in on Wednesday.
As much as I like all of the exotic wagering options that are available now, I have to admit it was a lot simpler years ago. When I first started going to the track many races just had win, place, show and exacta wagering.
The Texas Racing Commission authorized the state’s tracks to resume simulcasting and racing operations Wednesday morning after a temporary funding plan for the commission’s administrative costs was announced by the offices of Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. .
DRF handicapper Mike Hogan outlines his strategy for playing Thursday's card at Del Mar.
Runhappy, the 3-year-old colt who earned a 113 Beyer Speed Figure in winning the Grade 1 King’s Bishop with Edgar Prado aboard Saturday at Saratoga, returned to training for the first time Wednesday at the Thoroughbred training center in Lexington, Ky., and continues to thrive, according to trainer Maria Borell.
After winning a Grade 3 and a Grade 2 stakes already this year, Effinex gets his first opportunity to win a Grade 1 when he runs in Saturday’s $600,000 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga.
Azar and Next Shares, the only maidens in the field, dominated Wednesday’s $200,000 With Anticipation Stakes, finishing one-two in the Grade 2 turf stakes for 2-year-olds at Saratoga.
Steven J. Pini, the longtime track superintendent at Suffolk Downs and the 2009 recipient of the Sam McCracken Memorial Award for lifetime contributions to New England racing, died Sept. 1 after suffering a sudden heart attack.
Sheer Drama is settled back in at her Gulfstream Park base after winning last weekend’s Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga, and the plan is for her to train locally up to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, trainer David Fawkes said Wednesday.
Ceisteach, winner of the Grade 3 Robert G. Dick Memorial at Delaware in her last start, drew post 4 and heads a field of nine entered in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Glens Falls Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 3/8 miles.