Los Alamitos to seed upcoming pick six
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Los Alamitos will seed the $2 pick six on Saturday and on Dec. 16 with $10,000, provided the bet does not have a carryover from the preceding day.
The promotion has been in place in recent years for the track’s evening meeting of Quarter Horses and lower-level Thoroughbreds.
Los Alamitos offers a conventional $2 pick six.
Interest in the pick six has grown in Southern California in recent months after Santa Anita and Del Mar abandoned a 20-cent Rainbow pick six in which the entire pool was paid to a single winning ticket or on a day with a mandatory payout.
Santa Anita offered a conventional $1 pick six at its fall meeting that began late September. Del Mar did the same for its autumn meeting which began in November.
With that format, a majority of the pool is paid to tickets with six winners or into a carryover to the following racing day, with a smaller portion of the pool paid to ticket holders with five winners.
Los Alamitos has never offered a Rainbow pick six format.
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