With favorites winning the first five legs and the third choice the final leg Friday, the Golden Gate Fields jackpot Golden Pick 6 wager now has a base pool of $778,539 going into Saturday’s races.
The string of favorites led to a $92.12 payoff for picking six winners in a row. Conversely, in the first of the seven races on the card, the longest shot on the board, Nellie Gail, won, returning $71.
The jackpot is paid only when there is a single ticket with all six winners.
Racing at Belterra Park in Cincinnati is not expected to resume until next Thursday because of a track resurfacing project agreed to by horsemen and management following several fatal breakdowns last weekend.
Dave Basler, the executive director of the Ohio Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, said that material for the resurfacing was expected to arrive at the track Friday morning. After being mixed, the material will begin to be laid over the track Saturday morning, Basler said, provided the weather cooperates.
The Golden Pick 6 wager at Golden Gate Fields has a carryover of $749,871 for Friday’s card after 35-1 shot Recolte de Roi, the longest shot in the field, finished seventh in Thursday’s final race.
Recolte de Roi was the only horse in the final leg who would have produced a single winning ticket with all six race winners, resulting in a jackpot payout of $808,202.88.
The odds-on Comanche Ruler won the final race, but longshots Elegant Sky ($24.80), Kiss In Spades ($16), and Sandy’s Journey ($23.20) took the first three races.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – There will be no Preakness for Brody’s Cause, nor for Suddenbreakingnews. Now all that remains from those conquered by Nyquist in the Kentucky Derby are Exaggerator and Lani, with a decision still pending from the Gun Runner camp.
Charles Town has canceled its Friday and Saturday programs as continued precipitation has prevented the track from completing the resurfacing of its racing surface.
The West Virginia racino has not raced since its April 23 Charles Town Classic card. The track was scheduled to take a break, resurface its track, and then reopen last Friday.
The Stronach Group on Wednesday announced plans to host a new $12 million race, the Pegasus Cup, on Jan. 28, but the announcement seems only a very early step toward making the race actually happen.
The Pegasus Cup, to be run at 1 1/8 miles on dirt at Gulfstream Park, would be the world’s richest race, surpassing the $10 million Dubai World Cup, but unlike the World Cup and all other important global stakes, participants would supply all the purse money.
ELMONT, N.Y. – The New York stewards suspended veterinarian Carl E. Juul-Nielsen 20 days and fined him $2,500 for falsifying records for the horse Street Shark, who was scratched from the first race at Aqueduct on March 19.
Further, the stewards fined Street Shark’s trainer, Naipaul Chatterpaul, for working the horse the same morning that he was scratched, supposedly due to a bout of colic.
Gus “Buddy” Blass II, who with his wife, Patricia, won the 1973 Travers with Annihilate ‘Em, died Sunday at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Little Rock, Ark., confirmed Pat Tanner, the couple’s racing manager. Blass was 92.
Blass was a prominent Arkansas businessman and a longtime breeder and owner. Tanner said he fought in World War, II and was a patron of the Boy Scouts.
In his first training session since winning the Kentucky Derby, Nyquist stretched his legs over the Pimlico racing surface Wednesday morning, jogging one lap clockwise around the one-mile strip.
Nyquist’s exercise came four days after he gave trainer Doug O’Neill, owner J. Paul Reddam, and jockey Mario Gutierrez their second Derby victory, and 10 days before he will attempt to win the middle jewel of the Triple Crown in the 1 3/16-mile Preakness on May 21.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Lani, the Japanese-based, Kentucky-bred son of Tapit who finished ninth in the Kentucky Derby, is being pointed to both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes, trainer Mikio Matsunaga said Wednesday at Belmont Park.
“At the moment we are planning for the Preakness and after that the Belmont,” Matsunaga said through an interpreter.
