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Report: CDI Exploring Sale Of TwinSpires

Churchill Downs Inc. is exploring the sale of its advanced deposit wagering platform Twinspires, according to a report in Bloomberg.

Worth approximately $1.5 billion, Twinspires is the official wagering partner of the Kentucky Derby.

Anonymous sources told Bloomberg CDI has reached out to an adviser to solicit potential interest, but stressed that no final decision about its sale has been made.

CDI's share price rose to a high of $236.26 Thursday after the report was released.

Aqueduct Plagued By Timing Issues, Malfunctioning Photo Finish Technology On Dec. 2 Card

An equipment malfunction during Aqueduct's sixth race on Dec. 2 left stewards to determine the order of finish by video. The starter allowance race was won by Electric Youth at odds of 10-1 over Chloe Rose, but after a delay, third place was determined to be a dead heat between Thegoddessofsnakes and Rosey's Peach. No photo of the third place finish was shown after the official placings, and evidently one does not exist.

“NYRA is reviewing the circumstances that prevented the creation of a photo finish image of today's 6th race at Aqueduct Racetrack,” said Pat McKenna, senior director of communications for the New York Racing Association, in a statement. “In the absence of that image, the placing judges reviewed the finish by utilizing the enhanced video replay system available to the stewards. Under the rules of racing in New York State, the placing judges have sole discretion in determining the order of finish, which was 5-2-1,8 (DH).”

According to the race's chart, finish margins were collected manually by the chartcaller “due to an issue by Teletimer with the photo.”

Elsewhere on the race card, times were unavailable for the eighth race due to an unspecified timing issue noted in the chart. The quarter-mile time for the ninth race was also unavailable due to a timing issue.

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Double Pick 6 Carryover Of $288K Into Friday’s Card At Aqueduct

Friday's card will be bolstered by a double Pick 6 carryover of $288,843 as the multi-race wager went unsolved on Thursday at Aqueduct Racetrack.

The $1 Pick 6 returned $504.50 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly.

Thursday's sequence kicked off in Race 4 with Radio Days [No. 4, $2.50] impressing as the mutuel favorite in a seven-furlong allowance optional claiming sprint for juvenile fillies under Dylan Davis for Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey.

Sandrone [No. 5, $6.60], the 2-1 public choice, captured Race 5 with Luis Saez up for H. James Bond in a six-furlong outer turf sprint for New York-bred juveniles before Electric Youth [No. 5, $23.40] spiced up the sequence at odds of 10-1 with Saez up for Rudy Rodriguez in Race 6. Saez completed a natural hat trick by winning Race 7 with the Bond-trained Reckless Spirit [No. 7, $16].

Space Launch [No. 2, $21] found the wire in time to win Race 8, a 1 1/16-mile outer turf allowance, with Manny Franco up for Christophe Clement.

With only two horses uncovered in the Pick 6 to close out the sequence in Race 9, the Kelly Breen-conditioned Courvoisier [No. 10, $30] staved off Perfect Fight to secure the carryover in the nine-furlong maiden tilt for 2-year-olds.

Friday's Pick 6 kicks off in Race 5 at 1:42 p.m. Eastern. First post on the 10-race card is 11:50 a.m.

NYRA Bets is the official wagering platform of Aqueduct, and the best way to bet every race of the fall meet. Available to horseplayers nationwide, the NYRA Bets app is available for download today on iOS and Android at www.NYRABets.com.

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Non-Jackpot Pick 6 Carryover Headlines Thursday’s Card At The Big M

For the next two weeks, they'll be an extra night of racing at The Meadowlands for fans to enjoy, and as an added bonus, when live action takes place Thursday (Dec. 2) evening, they'll be a pot of gold waiting for players.

The 20-cent Pick-6 pool will be overflowing since the bet failed to yield a winning ticket last weekend (Nov. 26-27), so there is a carryover of $20,096 heading into Thursday's card. The Pick-6 will span races four through nine. Free past performances are always available for all Meadowlands programs by going to playmeadowlands.com.

Some simple mathematics tell us why carryovers like these present a remarkable opportunity for bettors. To begin with, the carryover is not subject to the takeout. If the wager takes in $30,000 of “new money”, $4,500 would be removed for the “rake”, which would leave $45,500 in the total pool, a return to the player of 151 per cent instead of the normal 85.

“This is a traditional, non-jackpot Pick-6,” said track Chief Operating Officer and General Manager Jason Settlemoir. “So that just sweetens the pot for the educated horseplayers. The wager is priced with a low 15 per cent takeout and has a low base bet of 20 cents. Players will also love that there will be a negative takeout if the final Pick-6 pool is under $150,000. From a wagering standpoint, it just doesn't get any better than this.”

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