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Carryover Helps Swell Stronach 5 Pool; 478 Winners Worth $923.70 Each

The Stronach 5 had 478 winning tickets Friday, each returning $923.70.

There was a $97,891.79 carryover and $389,936.43 of new money wagered. The Stronach 5 features an industry-low 12-percent takeout and races from Laurel Park, Santa Anita Park, Golden Gate Fields and Gulfstream Park.

The Stronach 5 kicked off with Laurel's eighth race, a maiden event for 3-year-olds at seven furlongs won by first-time starter Golden Warrior ($7.60), saddled by Dale Capuano and ridden by Alexander Crispin. Laurel's ninth race served as the second leg of the Stronach 5, won by 6-5 favorite Ego Trip ($4.60).

The Stronach 5 headed west for Santa Anita's third race. Colosi ($11), trained by Mark Glatt, won the fourth race of his career and the third leg of the Stronach 5. Golden Gate's third race, the fourth leg of the Stronach 5, went to 3-5 favorite Extractor ($3.40).

The Stronach 5 wrapped up at Gulfstream with its 10th race, a wide-open maiden claimer at five furlongs on the turf won by K's Running Free ($9.80).

Friday's races and sequence

Leg One – Laurel Park 8^th Race: Golden Warrior $7.60
Leg Two – Laurel Park 9^th Race: Ego Trip $4.60
Leg Three –Santa Anita Park 3^rd Race: Colosi $11
Leg Four –Golden Gate Fields 3^rd Race: Extractor $3.40
Leg Five –Gulfstream Park 10^th Race: K's Running Free $9.80

Fans can watch and wager on the action at 1ST.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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Stage Raider, Half-Brother To Justify, Set To Debut Saturday At Gulfstream

Stage Raider, a half-brother to Triple Crown winner Justify, will make his on-track debut Saturday during the Pegasus World Cup undercard at Gulfstream Park.

The 3-year-old son of Pioneerof the Nile will enter a seven-furlong sprint over the main track at Gulfstream, racing as a homebred for John D. Gunther of Glennwood Farm. Trainer Chad Brown will give rider Jose Ortiz the leg up on the colt, who is the 9-2 second choice on the morning line.

Stage Raider is out of the 2018 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year Stage Magic, a Ghostzapper mare who is the dam of three winners from four foals to race.

Stage Magic's star offspring is Justify, a son of Scat Daddy who went undefeated in six career starts, winning on debut, then taking an optional claiming race and the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby before sweeping the Triple Crown. He finished the year earning Eclipse Award honors as champion 3-year-old male and Horse of the Year.

Justify now stands at Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., where his first foals will be yearlings of 2021.

The mare has also produced The Lieutenant, a Grade 3-winning son of Street Sense who stood one Northern Hemisphere season in New York, but was killed during a raid at Haras Barlovento in Peru while standing the 2019 Southern Hemisphere breeding season. His first foals are also yearlings.

Stage Raider was offered at the 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale by the Glennwood Farm consignment, but the Gunther family elected to hold on to the colt, after he hammered below his reserve with a final bid of $950,000.

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Weekend Lineup Presented By The Maryland Jockey Club: Pegasus Races Anchor Gulfstream Card

The $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational and $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational are among the seven graded-stakes worth $4.725 million on a blockbuster 12-race program at Gulfstream Park on Saturday. Both Pegasus races will be part of NBC's live national telecast from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

Expanded coverage of the Pegasus World Cup will anchor TVG's weekend coverage as the network is live from Gulfstream Park with exclusive behind-the-scenes features, interviews and expert analysis. TVG's weekend broadcast will also feature opening weekend from Oaklawn Park including the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes on Friday which will offer points towards a berth in the Kentucky Derby.

In addition to the Pegasus World Cup coverage, NYRA-produced America's Day at the Races resumes its regular weekend schedule on Jan. 22. Presented in 2021 by America's Best Racing and Claiborne Farm, the show on FS1 and FS2 will feature racing from Aqueduct, Oaklawn Park, Fair Grounds, and Tampa Bay Downs in the coming weeks.

Saturday, Jan. 23

1:05 p.m.—$125,000 G3 Fred W. Hooper Stakes at Gulfstream Park on TVG

Graded stakes winner Performer will make his seasonal bow and first start outside of New York when he heads up the field in the one-mile Fred W. Hooper Stakes. Trained by Shug McGaughey, Performer has five wins from seven starts and has not finished worse than third in his career. The son of Speightstown most recently ran third in the G1 Cigar Mile Handicap on Dec. 5.

Entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/GP012321USA4-EQB.html

2:38 p.m.—$125,000 G3 Marshua's River Stakes at Gulfstream Park on TVG

Stakes winner Vigilantes Way seeks her second win over the Gulfstream Park turf course when she headlines a field of 10 in the one-mile Marshua's River Stakes. The 4-year-old daughter of Medaglia d'Oro comes into Saturday's test off a victory in the Tropical Park Oaks at Gulfstream on Dec. 26. That outing marked the first stakes win for the Phipps Stable homebred in eight career starts.

Entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/GP012321USA7-EQB.html

3:09 p.m.—$125,000 G3 La Prevoyante Stakes at Gulfstream Park on TVG

Regally-bred Always Shopping has shown an affinity for the Gulfstream Park turf in recent months and aims to keep that momentum going in the 12-furlong La Prevoyante Stakes on Saturday. Out of Stopshoppingmaria – the runner-up in the 2011 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf – Always Shopping has won two of her last three starts with both of those victories coming over the Gulfstream turf. The daughter of Awesome Again took the Monroe Stakes on Sept. 7 and enters Saturday's race off a victory in the Via Borghese Stakes on Dec. 19.

Entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/GP012321USA8-EQB.html

3:40 p.m.—$200,000 G2 Inside Information Stakes at Gulfstream Park on TVG

2W Stables' Bronx Beauty, an eight-time stakes winner over her first four seasons of racing, continues the pursuit of her elusive first graded triumph in Saturday's Inside Information. Bronx Beauty owns 10 wins and $618,070 in purse earnings from 25 career starts, all for owners Richard and Marie Woll, for whom Margotta purchased the now 6-year-old mare as a yearling. Twenty-two of Bronx Beauty's starts have come in stakes, six of them graded, including a head loss to Lady's Island in the Dec. 12 G3 Sugar Swirl at Gulfstream, a race where the winner survived a jockey's objection for interference to earn her second straight win in the six-furlong sprint.

Entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/GP012321USA9-EQB.html

4:13 p.m.—$150,000 G3 W. L. McKnight Stakes at Gulfstream Park on TVG

Veteran G1 winner Sadler's Joy will try and notch his first victory in more than a year when he takes on 10 challengers in the 1 ½-miles W.L. McKnight. Trained by Tom Albertrani, Sadler's Joy last visited the winner's circle in November 2019 when he took the Grade 3 Red Smith Stakes. The son of Kitten's Joy most recently finished fourth in the 2020 edition of the Red Smith Stakes and was third in the 2020 Mac Diarmida Stakes last February over the Gulfstream course.

Entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/GP012321USA10-EQB.html

4:59 p.m.—$1,000,000 G1 Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational at Gulfstream Park on NBC

Robert and Lawana Low's Colonel Liam, making just his sixth career start and first in graded company, figures to garner plenty of support in the third running of the 1 3/16-mile Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational. Colonel Liam was made the narrow 7-2 program favorite over stablemate Largent (9-2) in a field of a dozen stakes winners, 10 of them graded, including G1 winners Aquaphobia, Next Shares, Say the Word and Storm the Court, the 2-year-old male champion of 2019. Colonel Liam and Largent are part of trainer Todd Pletcher's triple threat that includes Social Paranoia, also among the five horses listed at less than double-digit odds.

Entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/GP012321USA11-EQB.html

5:44 p.m.—$3,000,000 G1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes at Gulfstream Park on NBC

Korea Racing Authority's Knicks Go is scheduled to seek the biggest payday of his career in Saturday's $3 million Pegasus World Cup Championship Invitational. Knicks Go will enter the fifth running of the Pegasus off three straight victories in as many starts in 2020, including a track record-breaking triumph under Joel Rosario in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Keeneland. Installed as the 5-2 morning-line favorite in a field of 12, Knicks Go will have to prove himself by trying to carry his abundant speed beyond 1 1/16-miles, the longest distance he has run during his 17-race career.

Entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/GP012321USA12-EQB.html

6:57 p.m.—$200,000 G3 Palos Verdes Stakes at Santa Anita Park on TVG

Veteran gelding Captain Scotty is back to defend his title as he heads a field of eight older horses going six furlongs in Saturday's Palos Verdes Stakes. A 7-year-old son of Quality Road, Captain Scotty gives trainer Peter Miller a strong one-two punch as he'll be joined by stablemate Shashashakemeup, who comes off a big second place finish in his first start off a $50,000 claim at Churchill Downs. Jay Em Ess Stables' California-bred Take the One O One shortens up out of a close third at 29-1 in the Grade 2 San Antonio Stakes while Ax Man, idle since fourth in the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at 1 1/16 miles July 25, looms dangerous off the bench for Bob Baffert.

Entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/SA012321USA7-EQB.html

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Trio Of Graded Stakes Winners Top Nominees For Jan. 30 Holy Bull Stakes

Grade 2 winner Mutasaabeq, who captured the Mucho Macho Man Jan. 2 in his season debut, and Grade 3 winners Pickin' Time and Sittin On Go are among 22 sophomores nominated to the $200,000 Holy Bull (G3) Saturday, Jan. 30 at Gulfstream Park.

The 30th running of the 1 1/16-mile Holy Bull is the next step for 3-year-olds on Gulfstream's road to the March 28 Florida Derby (G1), and headlines a program featuring five graded-stakes worth $600,000 in purses.

Shadwell Stable's Mutasaabeq was a popular 1 ½-length winner of the one-mile Mucho Macho Man, his return to the main track after winning the 1 1/16-mile Bourbon (G2) on grass and finishing 10th in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1). The next four horses that finished behind him – Papetu, Awesome Gerry, Pickin' Time and Ultimate Badger – are also nominated to the Holy Bull.

John Bowers Jr.'s New Jersey homebred Pickin' Time won the Smoke Glacken at Monmouth Park and Nashua (G3) at Aqueduct in back-to-back starts last fall before a pair of fourth-place finishes in the 1 1/8-mile Remsen (G2) Dec. 5 and the Mucho Macho Man, where he wound up beaten 11 ¼ lengths after a troubled start.

Albaugh Family Stables' Sittin On Go has been training forwardly at Gulfstream for trainer Dale Romans ahead of his 3-year-old debut. Winner of his first two career stats in Kentucky, including the Iroquois (G3), before finishing ninth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) and sixth in the Kentucky Jockey Club (G2), a race where Romans-trained stablemate Smiley Sobotka and fellow Holy Bull nominee ran second by less than a length.

Slam Dunk Racing's Drain the Clock, Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained stablemate of Awesome Gerry, exits a 7 ½-length romp as the favorite in the six-furlong Limehouse Jan. 2 at Gulfstream. The Maclean's Music colt has won all three races he has finished, losing his rider when the irons broke in the Jean Laffite Nov. 30 at Delta Downs.

Championship Meet-leading trainer Todd Pletcher nominated five horses including Remsen (G2) runner-up Known Agenda and recent Gulfstream maiden winners Amount, Donegal Bay and Prime Factor. Also among nominees are Capo Kane, winner of the Jan. 1 Jerome at Aqueduct; and Gulfstream maiden winners Greatest Honour, Jiraifales, Lucky Law, Simovitch and Willy Boi, the latter improving to 2-0 with a Florida-bred allowance victory Jan. 7.

Amount, Awesome Gerry, Drain the Clock, Papetu, Sittin On Go, Smiley Sobotka, Ultimate Badger and Willy Boi are also among 22 nominees to the $100,000 Claiborne Farm Swale for 3-year-olds sprinting seven furlongs, along with Competitive Speed, winner of the 6 ½-furlong Glitter Woman Jan. 2 at Gulfstream; Hot Blooded, winner of the one-mile Proud Man on the Gulfstream turf last summer; and Poppy's Pride, a winner of three consecutive stakes and four races overall.

Along with being nominated to the Swale, John Minchello's Competitive Speed is among 16 3-year-old filly nominees to the $100,000 Forward Gal, also contested at seven furlongs. She is joined by Gulf Coast, half-length winner of the one-mile Cash Run Jan. 1 at Gulfstream; Shea D Summer, fourth in the Cash Run after winning the Juvenile Fillies Sprint Nov. 14 at Gulfstream Park West; Gasparilla winner Adios Trippi; and Gone to Cabo and Dial to Win, respectively third and fifth in the Glitter Woman.

Rounding out the stakes are a pair of $100,000 turf events for 3-year-olds – the Kitten's Joy (G3) led by stakes winners Kentucky Pharoah, Hot Blooded, Never Surprised and Omaha City, and the Sweetest Chant (G3) for fillies featuring stakes winners Con Lima, Dirty Dangle and Gulf Coast.

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