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Meadowlands Sees Highest Handle Since 2006 On Saturday’s Pace Night
Meadowlands Pace night on Saturday was certainly one of the best Grand Circuit stakes cards of the season and business at the windows was right in line with the quality of the performances on the racetrack.
The Meadowlands enjoyed the highest handle on its biggest night of the season since 2006, when the Pace card saw a total of $5,672,535 wagered on the evening's fourteen races. Remarkably, Saturday's handle was the second largest of any track that raced the entire day, exceeded by only Saratoga Thoroughbreds.
The $5.6 million wagered represents a 20 percent increase over a year ago, when all sources handle totaled $4,733,390.
While stakes racing historically yields a very high percentage of winning favorites, the opposite was true on Saturday with only three favorites converting. Nine of the fourteen races on the card were stakes and while the average win mutuel for the entire card was $20, win prices on the stakes alone were north of $26.
An added bonus to the live television coverage from 10-midnight on Fox Sports 1 was a special “Cross Country” Pick 5 uniting Standardbred and Thoroughbred races in a common wager that included races 9 and 10 from Saratoga flats and races 10, 11 &12 from The Meadowlands. That wager returned $25,092 for a 50 cent bet.
| > $2 payouts | > Average pools | |||
| > Win | $20 | > WPS | $114,878 | |
| > Daily Double | $78 | > Exacta | $101,834 | |
| > Exacta | $152 | > Trifecta | $72,873 | |
| > Trifecta | $794 | > Superfecta | $47,657 | |
| > Pick 3 | $2,802 | > Daily Double | $34,268 | |
| > Survivor | $22,829 | |||
| > 50 cent payouts | > High 5 | $21,246 | ||
| > Pick 4 | $4,371 | > Pick 3 | $33,545 | |
| > Pick 4 | $150,452 | |||
| > 20 cent payouts | > Pick 5 | $108,725 | ||
| > Pick 5 | $3,358 | > Pick 6 | $55,903 | |
| > Pick 6 | $23,751 | |||
| > 10 cent payouts | ||||
| > Superfecta | $234 | |||
| > High 5 | $3,331 |
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BetMakers Secures Penn National Content For Fixed Odds Wagering In New Jersey
BetMakers Technology Group (“BetMakers”), a global leader in wagering technology, has announced the addition of racing content from Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course (“Penn National”) to the growing slate of races available for fixed odds betting on MonmouthBets, the only legal, regulated fixed odds horse racing platform in the United States. Through an exclusive license, BetMakers facilitates the supply of fixed odds wagering services in New Jersey, including data, digital platforms, and retail terminals.
The agreement between Penn National's parent company PENN Entertainment and BetMakers' Global Racing Network facilitates the delivery of content for fixed odds betting from Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course in Pennsylvania and anticipates the addition of other PENN Entertainment racetracks in the coming months pending required horsemen and racing commission approvals. Penn National Race Course offers some of the nation's best night-time thoroughbred racing on a year-round basis.
“We are very happy to work with BetMakers to offer New Jersey's racing fans an opportunity to bet fixed odds on Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course,” said Chris McErlean, Vice President – Racing for PENN Entertainment. “We are interested in the reaction to our product in the New Jersey fixed odds wagering marketplace and hope that it will provide positive returns for not only Penn National but the wider racing industry.”
With the addition of the Penn National content, New Jersey bettors now have the opportunity to place fixed odds wagers on racing from 16 racetracks across the USA, Canada, the Caribbean, and South America.
“We are delighted to make Penn National's excellent racing available to fixed odds bettors in New Jersey,” said Jake Henson, CEO of BetMakers Technology Group. “In addition to conducting some of the highest quality racing in the United States, Penn National's availability for fixed odds betting helps further expand New Jersey's fixed odds betting content schedule. PENN Entertainment is a valued partner to BetMakers and we are excited to demonstrate the opportunities that the combination of fixed odds and tote betting – when offered on a robust racing menu – can offer North American racing's stakeholders. We look forward to adding more PENN Entertainment content in the future.”
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Jockey Of The Week: Journeyman Angel Castillo Scores First Graded Win At Saratoga
Journeyman jockey Angel Castillo is usually found riding at Parx or other mid-Atlantic tracks, but on Saturday he had the call on Yo Yo Candy in the Grade 3 Sanford Stakes at Saratoga. As Yo Yo Candy's regular rider, he was happy to make the trip.
The 2-year-old colt's win marked Castillo's first graded stakes victory in North America and led to Castillo being honored as Jockey of the Week for July 10 through July 16 by a panel of racing experts. The award recognizes jockeys for riding accomplishments and who are members of the Jockeys' Guild, the organization which represents more than 1,050 active, retired and permanently disabled jockeys in the United States.
When trainer Daniel Velazquez gave a leg up to Castillo on Yo Yo Candy in the G3 Sanford, it marked just the second mount for Castillo at the storied Saratoga Race Course. His last visit was in 2012.
Off at odds of 46-1 in the field of nine, YoYo Candy broke cleanly from post position four and raced in fourth behind early leaders Dickens and Market Street. Yo Yo Candy fanned four wide into the stretch and took the lead at five furlongs, edging away to win by 2 1/4 lengths in 1:11.83 for the six-furlong contest. Post time favorite Gold Sweep was second after stumbling badly out of the gate.
“I'm always looking for opportunities to demonstrate my talent and I try to take my one or two opportunities,” said Castillo. “The trip was very good. I had a good start and good position in the race. In the turn, he charged outside and in the stretch he ran very good.”
Castillo, 53, is considered one of the top riders in Venezuela of all time. He moved his tack to the United States in 2000. His lifetime statistics in the United States include 957 wins and more than $25 million in purse earnings to date.
Castillo outpolled fellow riders Javier Castellano with two stakes wins including the Gr. III Schuylerville, Tyler Conner with a stakes win at Gulfstream and nine wins for the week, Flavien Prat who won the Gr. I Diana and Jaime Rodriguez who won 11 races to lead all jockeys for the week.
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