Pool guarantees Friday for multirace wagers

BALTIMORE – As expected on a huge day, Pimlico will be offering a wide range of wagering options Friday on the 14-race card.

Foremost is the start of the Black-Eyed Susan-Preakness double, a two-day wager linking the biggest races here Friday and Saturday. Last year, when Actress and Cloud Computing were the respective winners, the double lured $793,718 in handle and resulted in a $368.80 payoff for $2.

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According to charts maintained by Pimlico, the first year for the two-day wager was 2003, when the Pimlico Special was the first leg in the double (over the years, the track has used both the Black-Eyed Susan and Pimlico Special as the lead-in race).

Along with the usual array of rolling doubles, pick threes, and vertical wagers on Friday, the track also will be offering $300,000 pool guarantees on the following horizontal bets: middle pick four (races 8-11), late pick four (races 11-14), and late pick five (races 7-11).

The Black-Eyed Susan is a key link in all of those as the 11th race, with a post of 4:48 p.m. Eastern.