Guaranteed pools for exotic wagers Friday, Saturday

The New York Racing Association will offer a number of guaranteed pools and a pair of two-day daily-double wagers Friday and Saturday.

The Friday card, which includes five stakes, begins at 12:50 p.m. Eastern. There will be a pick four beginning on race 8 that comprises the Grade 2 True North, Grade 2 New York Stakes, Grade 2 Belmont Gold Cup, and a maiden race on turf. A minimum pool of $500,000 is assured.

The two-day wagers link the New York Stakes and Saturday’s Metropolitan Handicap, and the Belmont Gold Cup and the Belmont Stakes. The New York/Met Mile double pool is guaranteed at $100,000, and the Gold Cup/Belmont double will have a minimum pool of $300,000.

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The 13-race Belmont Stakes card starts at 11:35 a.m., and the pick five beginning with race 1 will have a pool of at least $500,000. The sequence starts with a New York-bred optional claimer, followed by the Easy Goer, Grade 1 Ogden Phipps, Grade 1 Acorn, and Grade 2 Brooklyn.

A $500,000-guaranteed pick six starts on race 6 and comprises the Grade 2 Jaipur, Grade 2 Woody Stephens, Grade 1 Just a Game, Grade 1 Met Mile, Grade 1 Manhattan, and Grade 1 Belmont Stakes.

The largest guaranteed pool of the weekend is the $1.5 million pick four that begins on race 8, the Just a Game.