Turfway card features $138,972 carryover in late pick five

Turfway Park heads into its next two days of racing with attractive wagering opportunities. The Friday card sports a carryover of $138,972 in the late pick five after no tickets correctly selected all five winners on Thursday’s sequence. There also is a jackpot pick six carryover into the weekend of $146,494.

Friday’s nine-race card begins at 5:55 p.m., and the pick five sequence runs from races five through nine, with the pick six sequence beginning in the fourth race.

The pick five begins with an $82,000 allowance/optional-claiming race that has an overflow field of 14. The six-furlong race on the Tapeta marks the first start since April for multiple stakes-placed Shards, who was second in the Animal Kingdom in March at Turfway.

Large fields are seen throughout the sequence, which continues with a race for $16,000 claimers with an overflow field of 14 entered to go a mile and 11 2-year-olds entered in an $80,000 maiden special weight at 1 1/16 miles.

In the eighth race, an $86,000 allowance/optional-claiming sprint, Night Time, who was entered in but scratched from last weekend’s Turfway Park Synthetic Championships, gets a softer spot in this field of 11. The 7-year-old has an established affinity for Turfway as he won the 2023 Holiday Cheer and owns three other stakes placings there.

The pick five sequence concludes with an $18,500 maiden-claiming sprint, which also has an overflow field of 14.

Saturday’s nine-race card also begins at 5:55 p.m. There are no stakes races on Turfway’s schedule for the weekend, but some stakes performers appear on the card’s two nominal features – an $83,000 allowance and an $86,000 allowance/optional-claiming race.

The allowance is headed by Epic Ride, who drops in class as he returns to Turfway, where he began his career by winning twice and finishing second twice from four outings last season, including a win in the Leonatus Stakes and a runner-up effort in the John Battaglia Memorial. Since then, he has made four stakes starts on dirt.

After Friday and Saturday’s action, Turfway is dark until Dec. 26, when it returns with a short three-day race week following holidays. The next stakes race on the schedule is the $125,000 Gowell Stakes on Jan. 1, for 3-year-old fillies sprinting six furlongs.

* Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes winner First Resort had his first work since that victory when going four furlongs in 49.60 seconds on Wednesday at Turfway.

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