Friday card features big fields for $100K pick six carryover

ARCADIA, Calif. – For the second consecutive week, Santa Anita has a Friday program with a carryover in the $2 pick six.

The bet proved too difficult on Sunday, with a carryover of $100,818 for Friday confirmed after Divine Rascal ($33.80) won the ninth race on a 10-race program.

Friday’s pick six covers the fifth through 10th races on a 10-race program that begins at 1 p.m. Pacific. The pool of new money may surpass $700,000.

The pick six races on Friday includes three on dirt and three on turf, with fields of 11, 8, 6, 8, 12, and 9 before scratches.

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The sequence begins with a $32,000 claimer for maiden 3-year-olds at six furlongs followed by a one-mile starter allowance race on turf. The smallest field appears in the seventh, an allowance race at six furlongs.

The second half of the pick six consists of allowance races – for California-bred fillies and mares on the hillside turf course, at 5 1/2 furlongs on dirt for horses formerly based in Northern California, and a one-mile turf race for California-bred 3-year-olds.

Last Friday, the pool of new money in the pick six was $546,945 in pursuit of a carryover of $71,789 from March 23. The pick six paid $5,199 to 70 ticket holders last Friday.

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