Month: December 2020

Low Takeout Wagers Bolster Santa Anita Winter-Spring Meet Betting Menu

With its highly anticipated Winter/Spring Meeting opener set for Saturday, December 26, Santa Anita Park has announced a comprehensive betting menu that will again feature the popular 20 cent Single Ticket Rainbow Pick 6 Jackpot and a myriad of other features, including a North American-low takeout of 15.43 percent on all $2 Win, Place and Show wagers.

Although Santa Anita remains closed to the public due to continued restrictions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic, fans can watch all of the track's live races free of charge via santaanita.com/live and can watch and wager on Santa Anita racing via a variety of ADW platforms including 1st.com/Bet.

In addition to the 20 cent Rainbow Six, Santa Anita will again offer the 50 cent Early Pick 5, which features a low 14 percent takeout, as well as the 50 cent Late Pick 5.

With the Jackpot provision in place, the 20 cent Single Ticket Rainbow Pick 6 requires a perfect single ticket in order to key a potentially life-changing payoff.  Providing there is no single ticket winner, consolation tickets with the highest number of winners receive a payoff on 70 percent of the net pool.  The remaining 30 percent is carried over to a Jackpot pool, which will continue to accrue until there is a single ticket winner or there is a designated mandatory payoff day.

The $1 Stronach Five will again be offered each Friday and will consist of a fast-paced series of five races from Santa Anita, Gulfstream Park, Laurel Park and Golden Gate Fields.  The Stronach Five offers players a low takeout of 12 percent.

Santa Anita will also continue to offer the $5 Golden Hour Double, and the $1 Golden Hour Pick 4.  Both wagers embrace late races at both Santa Anita and Golden Gate Fields.

Players will also once again be offered $1 exactas, $2 rolling Daily Doubles, 50 cent rolling Pick 3s, an early 50 cent Pick 4, as well as 10 cent Superfectas on all races with a minimum of six runners.

Additionally, the 50 cent Jackpot Super High 5 is again available in all races with seven or more declared starters.  The wager requires players to select the first five finishers in each race, in exact order.  In those races that do not produce a single ticket winner, 75 percent of the net pool will be paid out to those tickets that have correctly selected five winners, with 25 percent of the net pool carried over to the next Jackpot Super High Five race.

Special early first post time on opening day, Saturday, Dec. 26, is at 11 a.m.  For additional information, please visit santaanita.com or call (626) 574-RACE.

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Friday At Gulfstream: $550,000 Rainbow 6 Jackpot Guarantee, Farewell Race For Pay Any Price

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $550,000 Friday at Gulfstream Park.

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved for the seventh day of the Championship Meet Thursday, when multiple tickets with all six winners were each worth $1,215.26.

The jackpot pool is only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day's pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.

There will also be a Super Hi-5 carryover of $3,204.66 heading into Friday's card.

Friday's Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 5-10, including the last race of multiple-stakes winner Pay Any Price's career in Race 10, a five-furlong optional claiming allowance on turf. Due to age restrictions, the 10-year-old gelding will be ineligible to race at Gulfstream Park next year.

Pay Any Price has won 19 of 33 starts, including nine stakes. The son of Wildcat Heir set a North American and Gulfstream record for five-furlongs on turf while winning the 2017 Silks Run in 53.61 seconds.

Pay Any Price, who is rated as the 9-5 morning-line favorite in a full field of turf sprinters, most recently captured the Bob Umphrey Turf Sprint for the third year in a row.

In Race 9, a mile optional claiming allowance for 2-year-olds on turf, Tarantino is scheduled to make his first start for trainer Rodolphe Brisset. Formerly trained by Bob Baffert, the 2-year-old son of Pioneerof the Nile raced twice in California, including a debut triumph at Del Mar in September and a second-place finish in the Zuma Beach Stakes, in which he was beaten by a nose. Michael Maker-trained Risk Manager, an impressive debut winner at Keeneland, and George Weaver-trained Whatmakessammyrun, who finished second in the Atlantic Beach Stakes at Aqueduct in his last start, figure to provide plenty of competition.

Who's Hot: Joe Bravo doubled on Thursday's program, scoring career wins 5,457 and 5,458 aboard Freeze Turkey ($5.20) in Race 3 and Star Swept ($17.80) in Race 5.

Tyler Gaffalione and Paco Lopez each rode two winners. Gaffalione rode back-to-back winners in Races 6 and 7, scoring aboard Royal Meghan ($7) and War Canoe ($5), respectively. Lopez scored back-to-back wins with Get Rewarded ($6) in Race 9 and All About Kathern ($9) in Race 10.

Trainer Kent Sweezey saddled a pair of winners, Markistan ($4.80) in Race 2 and Star Swept ($17.80) in Race 5.

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Joseph Eyes Florida Derby Preps After Allowance Win By Moonlite Strike

Sonata Stable's Moonlite Strike is likely to embark on the Road to the Florida Derby (G1) following his gutsy victory in Thursday's featured optional claiming allowance at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.

Moonlite Strike ($4.80) withstood race-long outside pressure before prevailing by a head over Peachtree Stable's Kiger, a stablemate in trainer Saffie Joseph Jr's. barn, in the mile optional claiming allowance for 2-year-olds carded as Race 8 on a 10-race program.

“All races are under consideration. Kiger didn't win so he'll probably go back in one of those [optional claiming allowances] again, just because we have the option to develop him more. There are only stakes for Moonlite Strike,” Joseph said. “The Mucho Macho Man will be under consideration in about three weeks again. There is also the Holy Bull (G3) if we want to give him more time.”

The mile $100,000 Mucho Macho Man is scheduled to kick off Gulfstream's Road to the Florida Derby on Jan. 2. The 1 1/16-mile $200,000 Holy Bull (G3) is scheduled for Jan. 30.

Moonlite Strike, who graduated by two lengths over a sloppy Gulfstream Park West in his second career start Nov. 14, broke cleanly from his No. 1 post position but was immediately confronted on the outside by Advance Cash and Real Talk. Jockey Edgard Zayas let the son of Liam's Map settle into stride while racing inside of the early leaders before sending him to the lead on the far turn. Real Talk continued to press him into the stretch before tiring while Moonlite Strike forged ahead to open a clear lead in mid-stretch.

Kiger, who was rated behind the early speeders by Emisael Jaramillo, made a steady run through the stretch but was unable to get the better of his stablemate. Hercules finished third 5 ¼ lengths farther back.

“Moonlite Strike had kind of a tough trip and did it the hard way,” Joseph said. “Kiger got the run of the race, basically. Both ran well. Kiger didn't switch leads. He's a bit of a weird horse. There's a lot more talent there, but he just waits, waits, waits. He got a good education today.”

Moonlite Strike, who ran a mile in 1:38.96, was sold at the 2019 Keeneland September sale for $120,000.

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