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Friday's eight-race card at Aqueduct Racetrack in South Ozone Park, N.Y., will feature an Early Pick 5 carryover of $285,092 and a $1 Pick 6 carryover of $40,771 after the multi-race wagers went unsolved on Sunday's nine-race program.

Sunday's $1 Pick 6 returned $13,590 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 correctly.

Zeebear [No. 1, $9.20] made a winning debut to kick off the Sunday card in Race 1, sprinting gate-to-wire in a state-bred maiden claiming tilt for older horses under Jose Lezcano for trainer Linda Rice.

Hypnocurrency [No. 4, $11.60] prevailed in Race 2, a one-turn mile maiden claimer for state-bred sophomore fillies, with Romero Maragh in the irons for trainer James Bentley Begg.

In Race 3, the featured $100,000 Broadway for older state-bred fillies and mares, Funny How [No. 5, $12.60] surged to her first career stakes score, topping a trifecta over the graded-stakes placed duo of runner-up Betsy Blue and third-place Bank Sting. Katie Davis rode Funny How for trainer Ray Handal.

The $1 Pick 6 kicked off in Race 4 – the penultimate leg of the Early Pick 5 – with longshot Papi On Ice [No. 3, $54.50], owned and trained by Randi Persaud, winning a nine-furlong maiden claimer for older horses. The victory provided jockey Amin Castillo his first career win.

Bells On Her Toes [No. 1, $33.60] – one of two horses uncovered in the Early Pick 5 in the five-horse field – posted the upset in Race 5, a six-furlong claiming sprint for older fillies and mares, to secure the Early Pick 5 carryover with Heman Harkie in the irons for Richard Metivier.

The parade of longshots continued in Race 6 as Centavo [No. 3, $37.60]captured the one-mile claiming tilt for older horses with Omar Hernandez Moreno up for owner-trainer Naipaul Chatterpaul.

Rice and Lezcano teamed up again with Ragtime Blues [No. 7, $4.70*] to take Race 7, a six-furlong claiming sprint for older horses, to becomes the first winning favorite on the card; and was followed by another favorite in Late Night Larry [No. 7, $5.50*], who prevailed in Race 8, a one-mile allowance for older state-bred horses, with Manny Franco up for trainer Brittany Russell.

With the Pick 6 carryover already confirmed, Rice and Lezcano paired up for their third win on the card as Paros [No. 7, $9.70] captured the Race 9 finale, a maiden claiming sprint for sophomores.

Friday's eight-race card will see the Early Pick 5 carryover kick off in Race 1 at 1:20 p.m. Eastern, while the $1 Pick 6 will begin in Race 3 with a scheduled post time of 2:20 p.m.

America's Day at the Races will present live coverage and analysis of the Aqueduct winter meet on the networks of FOX Sports. For the broadcast schedule and channel finder, visit https://www.nyra.com/aqueduct/racing/tv-schedule.

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

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved Sunday for the 10th racing day following a mandatory payout.

The Rainbow 6 jackpot is 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.

Wednesday's Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 4-9, headlined by an $86,000 optional claiming allowance for older fillies and mares going five furlongs on turf.

Whisper Hill Farm LLC's Doll Baby, who is scheduled to make her turf debut in the Wednesday feature, is a 4-year-old Tapit filly out of 2012 and 2013 champion female sprinter champion Groupie Doll, a two-time Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) winner who concluded her career with a thrilling late-running victory in the 2014 Hurricane Bertie (G3) at Gulfstream. Doll Baby won at first asking last January on dirt. She returned from a month layoff to finish an even fourth in a Dec. 29 optional claiming allowance on the main track to set up her turf debut Wednesday.

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The 20-cent Rainbow 6 gross jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $500,000 Sunday at Gulfstream Park.

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved Saturday for the ninth racing day following a mandatory payout.

The Rainbow 6 jackpot is 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.

Sunday's Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 6-11, including five straight maiden special weight or optional claiming allowances with purses off $84,000 or higher.

An $86,000 entry-level optional claiming allowance for 4-year-olds and up kicks off the sequence. The six-furlong sprint attracted a well-matched field that includes Starship Renegade, who incoming off a sharp 3 ¾-length victory in the same condition for Florida-breds. Todd Pletcher-trained Bourbon Ready, who scored in a maiden optional claimer by 10 ¼ lengths, is the 5-2 morning-line favorite.

A six-furlong maiden special weight race for 3-year-old fillies with an $84,000 purse follows in Race 7, boasting a field that includes a Brendan Walsh-trained daughter of Into Mischief, a Shug McGaughey-trained daughter of Quality Road, and a daughter of Justify trained by Chad Brown, among several well-bred fillies.

A first-level optional claiming allowance for 4-year-olds and up with an $86,000 purse drew a full field for a mile turf event in Race 8. Penner Ash, a son of Curlin who lost a Keeneland allowance by a neck while finishing third in his last race, is scheduled to make his first start for trainer Michael Maker. Jimmy Toner-trained Siege of Boston, a son of War Front, is coming off a 3 ½-length maiden score at a mile on turf at Aqueduct.

An $84,000 maiden race for 3-year-old fillies at a mile in Race 9 drew a field of 10, including Juddmonte homebred Forenoon, a debuting daughter of Arrogate trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott; Chad Brown-trained Get Your Kicks, a debuting daughter of Quality Road; and Seduction, a daughter of Bernardini trained by Pletcher; is set to make her Gulfstream debut after finishing second in her career debut at Aqueduct.

A mile optional claiming allowance on turf with an $86,000 purse drew a highly competitive field of 10 3-year-old fillies for Race 10. Mott-trained American Rockette, who finished fourth in back-to-back Grade 1 stakes last season, is scheduled to make her 2023 debut. Christophe Clement-trained Breath Away, Breath Away, an English-bred daughter of Bated Breath, returns after rallying to graduate over the Gulfstream turf in her debut.

A five-furlong dash for $10,000 claimers on Tapeta closes out the sequence in Race 11.

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It's been reported time and again about how things at The Meadowlands are going swimmingly in 2023, with handle climbing past the $3-million plateau on all nine Friday and Saturday programs that have been contested through the first five weeks of the year.

Cards No. 10 and 11 are set for this Friday (Feb. 10) and Saturday (Feb. 11) at 6:20 p.m. ET.

But what's changed to create the big business? Nothing outrageous, except for some adjustments – some subtle, some not so much – that have gone a long way to fuel the uptick in action at The Big M.

The first – and likely most impactful factor – is field size. Racing secretary Scott Warren and his staff have had an overflowing entry box that goes back to last fall, and as a result, The Meadowlands now cards 14 races a night, instead of 13, which was the norm for several years.

That increase of 7.7 percent may seem small, but the race office has been able to write an extra race every night, with a vast majority of the dashes having a full field of 10. That's two more races every race week during a calendar year that will have 44 weeks of racing. It's considerable. Last weekend (Feb. 3-4), for example, 24 of the 28 races were scheduled to have 10-horse fields (Friday's card was canceled due to extreme cold conditions). Three had nine, and the one race that sent eight to the gate was the Saturday co-feature.

“We cannot thank our horsemen enough for supporting our entry box the way they have,” said track chief operating officer and general manager Jason Settlemoir. “You cannot put out a product like ours – with big fields and a low percentage of winning favorites – without horsemen supporting you. We have that and are extremely grateful for it.”

So big fields drive the machine, and with the race office writing hyper-competitive events, the percentage of winning favorites at The Meadowlands is the lowest in the industry. For the Big M faithful, that makes for good business.

Currently, chalk at The Meadowlands clicks at a success rate of 34. That number compares favorably with the top Thoroughbred tracks in racing.

Here are some current percentages of winning favorites at some of the biggest venues in racing (minimum 100 races, through Feb. 5):

• Harness: Meadowlands, 34; Woodbine Mohawk Park, 42; Northfield, 42; Dover, 46; Yonkers, 46; Monticello, 49; Freehold, 49.
• Thoroughbred (courtesy of Brisnet): Santa Anita, 29; Laurel, 33, Aqueduct, 34; Gulfstream, 35; Tampa Bay, 38.

Given how crowded the current gambling marketplace is, the highly competitive product offered at The Big M is one that appeals to players. They see favorites as vulnerable, which was the vision of Joe DeFrank and Bob Quigley when they got The Meadowlands going with a new brand of harness racing in 1976.

Current Big M president and CEO Jeff Gural, with Settlemoir at the helm of the day-to-day operation, have continued that tradition after working to bring the track back from near extinction a little over a decade ago, when Gural refused to let the harness game in the Garden State wilt and die. Gural insisted on the “no tuck” rule at the track just off the N.J. Turnpike, which has made the already competitive racing a far tougher task for handicappers of all skill levels.

It wasn't all that long ago that the thought of a harness track being top-ranked in handle at night would have been ridiculous, but The Big M is the current king of the nighttime – taking on all Standardbred and Thoroughbred comers – with their nightly 2023 average above $3 million.

A horsemen colony that supports the box, a staff that puts together competitive races in one of the most comfortable venues in the game and a loyal fan base that bets with verve 28 times every weekend. These are the things that have seen business boom at The Meadowlands.

“We'd love to match 2021 and average $3 million per night in handle,” said Settlemoir. “And if we can continue to provide the type of racing we've been providing for some time now, hopefully, that's what we'll be able to accomplish in 2023.”

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