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Stronach Five: Four Tracks, Four Turf Races Featured In Friday’s Wager

The popular Stronach 5, featuring an industry-low 12-percent takeout, will feature four tracks and four turf races Friday, including the $75,000 Bert Allen Stakes and $75,000 Punch Line Stakes from Laurel Park.

Along with races from Laurel, Gulfstream Park West, Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Park, the Stronach 5 will also have a $100,000 guaranteed pool.

The Stronach 5 begins at 3:58 ET with a dozen claimers going 6 ½ furlongs on the main track at Gulfstream Park West before the action moves to Laurel Park and a pair of $75,000 stakes on the turf for Virginia breds.

The Bert Allen, at 1 1/16 miles, features Largent, a son of Into Mischief who won the Edward P. Evans at Colonial Downs and was second in the Lure Stakes Sept. 7 at Saratoga. The 5 ½ furlong Punch Line drew a field of 14 including Embolden, second in the Edward P. Evans and fourth Aug. 29 in the Saranac (G3) at Saratoga.

The Stronach 5 wraps up out west with maiden California-bred or sired 2-year-olds going a mile on the turf, and 2-year-old maidens also going a mile on turf at Golden Gate Fields.

Friday's races and sequence

Leg One – Gulfstream West 8^th Race: (12 entries, 6 ½ furlongs) 3:58 ET, 12:58 PT
Leg Two –Laurel Park 7th Race: (8 entries, 1 1/16-mile turf) 4:20 ET, 1:20 PT
Leg Three –Laurel Park 8^th Race (14 entries, 5 1/2 furlongs turf) 5:02 ET, 2:02 PT
Leg Four –Santa Anita 4^th Race: (9 entries, 1-mile turf) 5:08 ET, 2:08 PT
Leg Five –Golden Gate Fields 3^rd Race: (9 entries, 1-mile turf) 5:23 ET, 2:23 PT

Fans can watch and wager on the action at 1/ST.COM/BET as well as stream all the action in English and Spanish at LaurelPark.com, SantaAnita.com, GulfstreamPark.com, and GoldenGateFields.com.

The Stronach 5 In the Money podcast, hosted by Jonathan Kinchen and Peter Thomas Fornatale, will be posted by 2 p.m. Thursday at InTheMoneyPodcast.com and will be available on iTunes and other major podcast distributors

The minimum wager on the multi-race, multi-track Stronach 5 is $1. If there are no tickets with five winners, the entire pool will be carried over to the next Friday.

If a change in racing surface is made after the wagering closes, each selection on any ticket will be considered a winning selection. If a betting interest is scratched, that selection will be substituted with the favorite in the win pool when wagering closes.

The Maryland Jockey Club serves as host of the Stronach 5.

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NYTHA Announces Board Candidates

The New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (NYTHA) announced the candidates Thursday for its 2020 President and Board of Directors. The NYTHA Board is comprised of five Owner Directors, five Trainer/Trainer-Owner Directors and the President. Candidates are as follows:

PRESIDENT:

– Joe Appelbaum (incumbent)

– Chad Summers

OWNER/DIRECTOR:

– Tina Marie Bond

– Daniel Collins

– Peter Dorsman

– Jonathan Green

– Jeanne A. Liddy

– Robert Masiello

– Edward J. Messina, Ph. D.

– Aron S. Yagoda

TRAINER/TRAINER-OWNER/DIRECTOR:

– Leah Gyarmati

– Patrick J. Kelly

– John Kimmel, V.M.D.

– Linda Rice

– Richard E. Schosberg

All seats come up for election every three years. To vote, a member must currently be licensed as a Thoroughbred owner or trainer in good standing with the New York State Gaming Commission, have started a Thoroughbred in a pari-mutuel race at a NYRA track in 2019-20, and be listed as an owner or trainer in the Equibase owner or trainer records and in an official NYRA track program in 2019-20. Alternatively, a member can own a minimum of 5% of a horse that started in a pari-mutuel race at a NYRA track in 2019-20.

Voting packages will be mailed this month. Votes must be cast in person or by proxy during the Dec. 7 NYTHA Annual Meeting, which will be held virtually. For detailed information on voting and deadlines, please contact NYTHA directly.

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Belmont Park: Saturday’s Empire 6 Wager Features Mandatory Payout

Saturday's Jockey Club Gold Cup Day card will feature a mandatory payout of the Empire 6, which boasts a jackpot of $352,831 heading into Thursday's 10-race card at Belmont Park.

Live coverage of all the races in the sequence will be available with America's Day at the Races on FOX Sports and MSG+. Free Equibase-provided past performances will be available for races that are part of the America's Day at the Races broadcast and can be accessed at https://www.nyra.com/belmont/racing/tv-schedule.

Saturday's sequence kicks off in Race 6 [3:03 p.m.], a six-furlong maiden special weight over the main track where eight juvenile colts will seek their first trip to the winner's circle. Trainer Todd Pletcher will saddle the royally-bred first time starter Overtook, a $1 million Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase who is owned by Repole Stable, St. Elias Stable, Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier and Derrick Smith. The son of multiple-champion producing sire Curlin is out of Grade 1-winning A.P. Indy mare Got Lucky.

Juvenile colts will take to the Widener turf for Race 7 [3:40 p.m.], which is a 1 1/16-mile maiden special weight. Belmont fall meet-leading trainer Chad Brown sends out Juddmonte Farms homebred Connagh's Quay – a bay son of freshman sire Flintshire out of the Empire Maker mare Routine, who posted two bullet works heading into his debut.

The third leg of the sequence is the Grade 1, $250,000 Flower Bowl Invitational in Race 8 at 4:14 p.m. going the classic distance of 1 ¼ miles for fillies and mares on the inner turf, which is a Breeders' Cup “Win And You're In” event for the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf.

Brown, a six-time winner of the Flower Bowl, will have a trio of turf distaffers in this year's edition, including dual Grade 1-winner Cambier Parc. Owned by Larry Best's OXO Equine, the daughter of Medaglia d'Oro out of 2007 Canadian Horse of the Year Sealy Hill was second in the Grade 2 Canadian on September 12 at Woodbine last out. Brown also is represented by Peter Brant's graded stakes winner My Sister Nat – half-sister to 2018 Champion Turf Mare and last year's Flower Bowl victor Sistercharlie. First Row Partners and Hidden Brook Farms' Nay Lady Nay will seek her third straight win for Brown having won the Grade 3 Matchmaker on July 18 at Monmouth Park and the All Along on September 7 at Laurel Park.

The prestigious Grade 1, $250,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup for older horses going 1 ¼ miles will be the fourth leg of the Empire 6, which is a Breeders' Cup “Win And You're In” event for the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Classic. The Jockey Club Gold Cup features Juddmonte Farm's three-time graded stakes winner Tacitus bidding for his first Grade 1 victory for Hall of Famer Bill Mott. Sophomore stakes winners Mystic Guide, winner of the Grade 2 Jim Dandy at Saratoga and unbeaten Happy Saver, winner of the last out Federico Tesio at Laurel Park, will also be seeking breakthrough victories in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. The Jockey Club Gold Cup will be run as Race 9 with a post time of 4:48 p.m.

The penultimate leg will be the Grade 2, $150,000 Sands Point in Race 10 at 5:20 p.m. for sophomore fillies going one mile over the Widener turf. Trainer Chad Brown will saddle two-time graded stakes winner Selflessly for Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables as well as Tamahere, who makes her North American debut. Trainer Christophe Clement will send out Waterford Stables' Speaktomeofsummer, a graded stakes winning daughter of second crop sire Summer Front.

The sequence concludes with a field of 12 New York-bred juvenile fillies seeking their first career win going six furlongs over the inner turf in Race 11 [5:52 p.m.]. Trainer George Weaver sends out Jim and Susan Hill's The Promised Road, who was bred by Dr. Jerry Bilinski and Harry Patten, The Promised Road was a $220,000 purchase from the 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

The Empire 6 requires the bettor to select the first-place finisher of the final six races of the card. On non-mandatory payout days, if one unique ticket exists, then 100 percent of the net pool, plus the jackpot carryover if applicable, will be paid to the winner. If there is no unique wager selecting the first-place finisher in all six races, then 75 percent of the day's net pool will be distributed to those who selected the first-place finisher in the greatest number of races. The remainder will be added into the jackpot and carried to the next day's Empire 6.

For more information on the Empire 6, please visit http://www.nyrabets.com.

Empire 6 – Saturday, October 10:
Leg 1 – Race 6 (3:03 p.m.)
Leg 2 – Race 7 (3:40 p.m.)
Leg 3 – Race 8: G1 Flower Bowl Invitational (4:14 p.m.)
Leg 4 – Race 9: G1 Jockey Club Gold Cup (4:48 p.m.)
Leg 5 – Race 10: G2 Sands Point (5:20 p.m.)
Leg 6- Race 11 (5:52 p.m.)

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Gift Box Retired to Lane’s End

Hronis Racing’s Grade I-winning millionaire Gift Box (Twirling Candy–Special Me, by Unbridled’s Song) has been retired from racing and will take up stud duties in 2021 at Lane’s End Farm.

On the board in the GII Remsen S. as a juvenile and second in the Curlin S. at Saratoga as a sophomore, Gift Box joined the John Sadler barn in the second half of his 5-year-old season and immediately bested GI Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile hero Battle of Midway (Smart Strike) in the GII San Antonio S. in December of 2018. He then defeated MGISW McKinzie (Street Sense) in a hard-fought duel in last April’s GI Santa Anita H., and was a close second to eventual GI Breeders’ Cup Classic victor Vino Rosso (Curlin) in the GI Gold Cup at Santa Anita that May. He was last seen defending his San Antonio title at the end of December while earning a career-best 107 Beyer Speed Figure. The grey retires with a record of 18-6-6-2 and earnings of $1,127,060.

“Gift Box was an incredibly talented and consistent racehorse,” said Sadler. “We ran him back-to-back in graded stakes race after graded stakes race and he was only ever off the board once. These are attributes you do not often see in the modern racehorse. He had speed, toughness, sound enough to race on in the handicap division, everything a trainer wants in a two-turn dirt horse.”

Bred by Machmer Hall, Carrie and Craig Brogden, Gift Box is a half-brother to MGSW and GISP Stonetastic (Mizzen Mast) and last year’s GII Autumn S. winner Special Forces (Candy Ride {Arg}). His yearling half-sister by Into Mischief sold for $1,025,000 to agent Liz Crow at last month’s Keeneland September sale.

Gift Box is the highest-earning son of his leading sixth-crop sire, and will stand at Lane’s End alongside both Twirling Candy and grandsire Candy Ride (Arg).

“Gift Box represents so much of what we’re about at Lane’s End: a Grade I winner at a mile and a quarter on the dirt, speed, out of a tremendous mare from a sire line we believe in,” said Bill Farish. “That’s what we’ve been successful with and I’m appreciative of the opportunity Hronis Racing has given us.”

Kosta Hronis added, “Gift Box was always involved in races of the highest level and as owners we could not ask any more than that. John always had a tremendous amount of confidence in him, and time and time again Gift Box proved him right. We are going to stay involved in his next career as a stallion at Lane’s End, where they have a proven track record of nurturing a young stallion’s career.”

Gift Box joins a roster that includes fellow Hronis/Sadler standouts Accelerate (Lookin At Lucky) and Catalina Cruiser (Union Rags). He will be syndicated and available for inspection in the coming weeks at Lane’s End Farm and a stud fee will be determined.

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