Meadowlands: Pick 6 carryover set for Saturday night

There were no winning tickets sold on the 20-cent Pick 6 on Friday night at the Meadowlands, creating a carryover of $3,690 for Saturday's card. Those with five correct selections collected $165.32.

'WARRIOR' ON COMEBACK TRAIL, WINS AT BIG M: Recently, times have been tough for Warrior One, a veteran whose lifetime earnings are nearing $800,000, but the Ron Burke trainee got back into the winner's circle for the first time since June 20 Friday night in the $11,000 conditioned trotting feature, and looked impressive doing it to snap a seven-race losing streak.

"The way he's been racing he should have been in non-winners of $1,000," said a sarcastic winning owner-driver Yannick Gingras in the back paddock after the victory at the non-winners of $5,000 level. "But he has great class. He hasn't been racing to his level [of late] but tonight he was really good."

Warrior One sat a pocket to the quarter, where Love This Bar had the top in 28 4/5. Starlit Rambo then made his way to the point at the half, leading at that call in 57 3/5 as Warrior One vacated the rail from the three-hole at the five-eighths to go after the leader. He turned a one length deficit at three-quarters (Starlit Rambo was there in 1:27 2/5) into a two length edge at the top of the lane before going on to an easy three length score in 1:56 4/5. A pair of 38-1 longshots, Love This Bar and Altus Hanover, finished second and third, respectively.

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"[In this class] it's supposed to be easy for him, and I think it was a step in the right direction," said Gingras.

Little Expensive, the 4-5 favorite, was never involved on the way to a lackluster fifth-place finish.

An 8-year-old gelded son of Father Patrick-Yoga, Warrior One scored for the 39th time from 158 lifetime starts. He returned $7 to his backers as the 5-2 second choice.

A LITTLE MORE: JM Betonsix snuck up the rail to nail stakes-caliber 3-year-old filly – and 3-5 favorite – Canigetalouploup by a nose in 1:54 1/5 as the 6-1 fourth choice in the pacing feature, an $18,000 conditioned event for fillies and mares. The 6-year-old daughter of Betting Line-Six Of Hearts was driven by Braxten Boyd and trained by Blake MacIntosh. All-source handle on the 14-race card totaled $2,126,456. Racing resumes Saturday at 6:20 p.m.

--edited press release (Meadowlands)--