Live racing returns to Laurel Park this Thursday for a New Year's Eve program that marks closing day of the 2020 fall meet and features mandatory payouts in the 20-cent Rainbow 6, 50-cent Late Pick 5 and $1 Super Hi-5 wagers.
There will be carryovers of $17,538.82 in the Rainbow 6, spanning Races 4-9, and $332.99 in the Super Hi-5 for Thursday's opener, a 5 ½-furlong claiming event for 3-year-olds and up. Post time for the first of nine races is 12:25 p.m.
The Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot is paid out when there is a single, unique tickets sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 60 percent of that day's pool goes back to bettors holding tickets with the most winners while 40 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool. On mandatory days, the entire pool is paid out to the bettors holding tickets with the most winners in the six-race sequence.
Thursday's Rainbow 6 kicks off with a seven-furlong starter optional claimer for 3-year-olds and up that drew a field of nine led by 5-2 program favorite Fast Cash, a $300,000 yearling of 2018 making his 10th career start and third since being claimed by Anthony Farrior, his fourth trainer since September.
Race 7 is an open, third-level optional claiming allowance for fillies and mares 3 and up sprinting seven furlongs featuring Naughty Thoughts, winner of Laurel's Wide Country Feb. 15; Coconut Cake, who had a three-race win streak snapped last out Dec. 3; Maryland Million Distaff runner-up Quiet Imagination; 2018 Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship winner Money Fromheaven and multiple stakes-placed Ankle Monitor.
Chuck and Maribeth Sandford's 3-year-old homebred filly Indy Takes Charge, unraced since Sept. 5 after crossing the wire second in three consecutive races, is favored at 2-1 on the morning line for her return in Race 8, a seven-furlong allowance for fillies and mares 3 and up.
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