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Saratoga: Pick six has $245K carryover for Wednesday
With four double-digit-priced winners in the sequence Monday at Saratoga, nobody hit the pick six, creating a two-day carryover of $245,278 into Wednesday’s card.
David GreningJul 22, 2013
With four double-digit-priced winners in the sequence Monday at Saratoga, nobody hit the pick six, creating a two-day carryover of $245,278 into Wednesday’s card.
For the second time in two years, Bigger Is Bettor pulled off an upset in a stakes at Saratoga, this time rallying along the inside under Joe Rocco Jr. to win Monday’s $100,000 Evan Shipman Stakes by a head over Awesome Vision in a four-horse blanket finish.
Trainer Charlie LoPresti’s reigning Horse of the Year, Wise Dan, escaped a potentially disastrous situation after stumbling and nearly unseating exercise rider Damien Rock shortly past the finish line during a routine gallop here Monday. Rock did a remarkable job to get back in the saddle after having his right foot dislodged from the iron and his right leg pitched over the left side of Wise Dan’s body when his horse stumbled.
Kitten’s Dumplings looks to continue her ascension in the 3-year-old female turf division when she seeks her third consecutive victory in Wednesday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Lake George Stakes at Saratoga.
Trainer Barclay Tagg called Wednesday’s sixth race at Saratoga “a Grade 1 allowance race,” and it’s likely the majority of his colleagues who also may have been looking for a soft spot for their stakes-caliber turf horses would agree with that assessment.
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The pick-six pool Wednesday at Del Mar is expected to soar well past $1 million when bettors take aim at a single-day carryover of $238,499.
Trainer Richard Mandella has high hopes for Station House, a colt by Rock Hard Ten who is set to make his debut in Wednesday’s third race, a one-mile grass test for 2-year-olds that kicks off a pick six that has a carryover of $238,499.
After winning two of his first three starts to begin his 3-year-old season, Micromanage will get the chance for an important victory in Sunday’s $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park.