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Santa Anita will seed late pick five pool on Sunday with $50K
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Barbara D. Livingston The money Santa Anita is adding to the late pick five pool on Sunday is a thank you to racing fans following a difficult, weather impacted, opening week.
Santa Anita is adding $50,000 to the pool of the 50-cent late pick five on Sunday, officials announced on Friday.
In a statement, the track said the bonus money to the pool is an expression of gratitude toward racing fans for support through opening week of the winter-spring meeting, which was disrupted by poor weather.
There was no turf racing on the Dec. 26 program because of rain in the preceding days. Rain after lunch on Monday led to the transfer of turf races to the main track midway through the program.
Thursday’s program was canceled because of wet weather, while Friday’s program was conducted entirely on dirt largely with small fields.
The late pick five pool on opening day was $1,161,592, which fell to $623,231 on Monday.