The pick six returned a track record $1,540,401.60 to one ticketholder at Hollywood Park on Friday. In a result befitting the payoff, it was not an easy sequence of winners to find.
Beginning in the third race, the winners were Getnhotnhere ($82.40), Unusually Chic ($11.80), Bullet Train ($5.40), Unbeatable East ($21.60), Santa Fe ($21.40) and Investingold ($17).
The pick six carried over on Wednesday and Thursday. The payoff exceeded the previous Hollywood record of $1,313,808 set in May 2004.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Steve Asmussen came within a neck of sweeping the two New York Stallion Stakes for 3-year-olds in April at Aqueduct. Asmussen hopes to make up the difference when both No Reason and One Way Flight return in Sunday's two $75,000 stakes for progeny of New York-based sires at Belmont Park.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Foxysox has come a long way in a short time. In less than four months, the European import has overcome trouble, won all four of her U.S. starts, and rocketed from maiden winner to the top of her division.
But Foxysox is vulnerable Sunday at Hollywood Park. Foxysox enters the Grade 2 Honeymoon Breeders' Cup Handicap with a glowing r?sum?, but one that is offset by an imperfect work pattern caused by a bruised foot.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - With his best horses stabled on the East and West coasts, you wouldn't think Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel would have much firepower left over for the Churchill Downs meet.
But several of the 20 or so horses that Frankel left behind here with assistant Chad Brown would be welcomed by any trainer, anywhere. One of those is a British import named Sky High Flyer, who figures to be the horse to beat when the feature race, a $58,000 turf allowance, is run Sunday at Churchill.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Atlas Shrugs has won a pair of one-turn stakes this spring at Woodbine and has become a very useful closing sprinter. He has never competed around two turns, though, so the jury is still out as to whether he is a legitimate prospect for the 1 1/4-mile Queen's Plate on June 25.
The verdict should be in Sunday, when Atlas Shrugs contests the $150,000 Plate Trial Stakes, a nine-furlong test for 3-year-olds eligible to the Plate.
AUBURN, Wash. - Courting Seattle, the authoritative winner of last month's six-furlong Auburn Stakes, will attempt to stretch his speed another sixteenth on Sunday at Emerald Downs when he takes on nine other 3-year-olds in the $55,000 Pepsi-Cola Handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs.
CALGARY, Alberta - The rain subsided, the course was once again fast, and there was an audible sigh of relief from the race office and other quarters once race secretary Russ Armstrong put his stamp of approval on Sunday's program here at Stampede Park. Short fields of less than stellar quality plagued the meeting in the last month.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Everything seems to favor Carthage going into Sunday's Grade 3, $125,000 Bay Meadows Breeders' Cup Sprint.
He is at the top of his game with four straight wins, including three in stakes - all with Beyers of 105 or higher. He comes off a victory over reigning Eclipse sprint champion Lost in the Fog and gets to run on his home track, where he is 3 for 5 with a second.
also won the battle of the draw in the five-horse field, getting the outside post where he can use his speed to best advantage.
