Yonkers: $15,000 Seeded Pick 5 this week

MGM Yonkers Raceway will offer handicappers a unique opportunity during the remainder of the racing week with a special Pick 5 seeded with $15,000 on each card.

Beginning on Tuesday night the Pick 5 will start with $15,000 in the pool. Should the wager be hit, a new $15,000 will be available on Wednesday evening, and so on. Should the Pick 5 go unsolved on one of the cards, 50% of the pool will carryover to the following card and the other 50% will move on to Saturday when a mandatory payout Pick 5 will be in effect.

For clarity, if $10,000 is wagered on Tuesday and no one hits the bet, there will be a $15,000 carryover for Wednesday and a $11,500 will be waiting in the Pick 5 pool for Saturday’s MGM Yonkers International Trot Day card. If $25,000 is wagered on Tuesday without a winner, $17,500 will be carried over to both Wednesday and Saturday.

A non-Jackpot wager offering a 20% takeout, the “Lucky” Pick 5 will be offered on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights (7:00 PM post) as well as Saturday afternoon (12:15 PM). The base wager amount for the bet is $5.

The Pick 5 is always available on races 5 through 9 during every card and will revert to the normal .50-cent base wager on September 11.

MGM Yonkers International Trot Day

The field for the MGM Yonkers International Trot is now set with Canadian invader Fashion Frenzie taking the tenth and final spot in the 1 1/4-mile showdown. The $1,000,000 event will be race 7 on the Saturday card with an estimated post time of 3:00 PM (EDT).

The post position draw for the MGM Yonkers International Trot as well as the New York Sire Stakes finals can be viewed on the Yonkers Raceway Facebook page at 5 PM local time on Tuesday, September 5.