DEL MAR, Calif. -- There will be a carryover of $239,490 into the pick six on Wednesday at Del Mar, the result of no one hitting the bet on Sunday, when the pool was seeded with $50,000 from the track itself.
The $50,000 seed money remains in the pool and is incorporated into the carryover figure.
Del Mar is dark on Monday and Tuesday.
There were four double-digit winners in the pick six sequence on Sunday, including 11-1 Up In Time in the featured San Clemente Handicap.
DEL MAR, Calif. -- British transplant Simon Callaghan got his first Del Mar stakes winner in the most memorable way on Sunday as he sent out Up In Time for an 11-1 upset in the Grade 2, $150,000 San Clemente Handicap for 3-year-old turf fillies.
Up In Time ($25.40) gave Rafael Bejarano, the meet’s leading rider, his third winner on the card. Bejarano also won the earlier California Dreamin’ Handicap with Norvsky.
Feature Mr Bojangles sprung an upset in the Grade 1, $700,000 Rainbow Futurity for Quarter Horses on Sunday, when he powered to a half-length win over The Long Knife in the second leg of the All American Triple Crown at Ruidoso Downs. It was another half-length back in third to Jess Cuervo.
Feature Mr Bojangles paid $20.
DEL MAR, Calif. -- One day after winning the Grade 1 Eddie Read Stakes with Acclamation, owner Bud Johnston and trainer Don Warren picked up some spare change when favored Norvsky ($5.40) rallied powerfully to take the $100,000 California Dreamin Handicap for older California-bred turf horses on Sunday at Del Mar.
OMAHA, Neb. - Schramsberg needed his best to hold off defending champion Tenth Power but was up to the challenge in the $51,500 Omaha Stakes as the Horsemen's Park four-day festival of racing closed out with a thriller on Sunday afternoon.
Trainer Todd Fincher’s homecoming to Colorado was a successful one on Sunday, when he sent out Queen Greeley to a five-length win in the $40,000 Columbine at Arapahoe Park. She was the first horse Fincher, a Denver native, has ever saddled at the Aurora, Colo., track. The trainer is based in New Mexico.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Last year, the best 2-year-old in the country belonged to owner Mike Repole and trainer Todd Pletcher. Through Sunday, the best 2-year-old in the country this year belongs to owner Mike Repole and trainer Todd Pletcher.
OCEANPORT, N.J. - She Digs Me won the Tyro and Pinch Pie took the Desert Vixen as racing resumed Sunday at Monmouth Park with a pair of $70,000 stakes.
The track canceled the Friday and Saturday cards because of the intense heat and humidity on the Jersey Shore. The Friday card will be run as originally drawn on Monday, normally a Monmouth dark day.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario—Windward Islands won the Grade 2 Nijinsky Stakes for the second year in a row at Woodbine on Sunday.
The favored Fifty Proof set a tepid pace in the nine-furlong turf event, which was run over a course labeled yielding. Hailstone stalked in second, and Windward Islands raced in third on the turn under Emma Wilson, who won four races on the card.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - There’s something about the third day of the Saratoga meet that brings out the best in jockey Javier Castellano.
Last year, Castellano won five consecutive races on the third day of the 40-day meeting. On Sunday, day 3 of the 143rd Saratoga season, Castellano reeled off three consecutive winners, capped by a half-length-victory aboard Chorus Music in the $77,500 Irish Linnet Stakes for New York-bred fillies on the turf.
