With Hurricane Approaching Southern California, Del Mar Cancels Sunday Card

Bowing to Mother Nature and putting safety first on its list, Del Mar Thoroughbred Club has announced a cancelation of its planned Sunday racing card.

With a rare and sizeable hurricane set to sweep into the Southern California area, the shore track determined it had little choice but to call off the nine-race program it had scheduled to close out the weekend.

“For the safety of everyone involved — our horses, our riders and all the workers, staff and fans — we have made the decision to cancel Sunday's races,” DMTC president and COO Josh Rubinstein said Saturday morning. “Unfortunately, the forecast calls for substantial rain and winds that appear to be headed our way. We are hopeful this will only be a one-day thing for us, but it is a necessary step we feel we have to take.”

This incident will be only the second time in the track's 84-year history it has lost a day of racing to the elements. In 2019, its Thanksgiving Day card was called off ahead of a projected storm.

Track officials have indicated that no individual make-up day will be scheduled in light of the loss. Instead, the plan is to arrange to work in many of the planned races on different days over the course of coming weeks.

Del Mar has a 31-day schedule this year which started on Friday, July 21 and goes forward to Sunday, September 10.  Racing is conducted on a Thursday through Sunday basis primarily with the addition of an extra card on Labor Day Monday, September 4.

Racing will resume at the track next Thursday with a 2 p.m. first post.

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Rainbow 6 Mandatory Payout Set For Saturday At Gulfstream; Pool Expected To Surpass $1.5 Million

A mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 gross jackpot pool is set for Saturday's 10-race program at Gulfstream Park, where the popular multi-race wager's pool is expected to surpass $1.5 million.

The Rainbow 6 went unsolved Friday for the 20th consecutive racing day following a mandatory payout, producing a gross jackpot pool of $338,577.47 heading into Saturday's wagering.

On mandatory-payout days, the entire Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the wager's six-race sequence. The carryover jackpot is usually only 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 usually goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winner, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.

The Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 5-10, featuring the $65,000 Sheer Drama Stakes in Race 9.

The sequence kicks off with a 1 1/16-mile $10,000 claimer on Tapeta that drew a field of eight 3-year-olds and up for Race 5. Gooch Go Bragh, who romped at this level in his first start off the claim for trainer Jose D'Angelo, is rated as the 5-2 morning-line favorite who'll be challenged by a group of evenly matched rivals.

A field of nine Florida-bred 2-year-olds will line up in the starting gate for a 6 ½-furlong maiden special weight test in Race 6. Bobby Dibona-trained Arrogancy, the 3-1 morning-line favorite who lost by a neck in his recent debut, Victor Barboza-trained Awesome Train, a runner-up in his debut, and Juan Alvarado-trained Jigsaw, who returns to the main track on which he finished third twice, will face five first-time starters. David Fawkes-trained Go Billy Go, is a half-brother to Starship Bonita, who captured two legs of the 2017 Florida Sire Stakes series and was a winner of multiple open stakes.

An optional claiming allowance for 3-year-old fillies follows in Race 7. The 6 ½-furlong sprint drew a field of seven, including multiple stakes-placed Trust Me, a Fawkes trainee who is rated as the 8-5 morning-line favorite. Jose D'Angelo-trained Flag Woman, rated second at 3-1, is scheduled to seek her third straight victory.

Graded stakes-placed Volcanic is the 5-2 morning-line favorite in a field of nine assembled for Race 8, an optional claiming allowance at a mile and 70 yards on Tapeta for 3-year-olds and up. Trained by Hall of Famer Mark Casse, Volcanic has won twice and finished second once in three starts on Tapeta. Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained Centrodelantero made a strong step forward in his first start on Tapeta with a second-place finish last time out. Eddie Plesa Jr.-trained Wind Ninety Nine has also taken to the all-weather surface while finishing second in his two most recent starts.

Averill Racing and ATM Racing, and Jayson Werth's R Adios Jersey, a multiple-stakes winner trained by Georgina Baxter, is rated as the 8-5 morning-line favorite in a deep field of eight fillies and mares for the seven-furlong Sheer Drama. The daughter of Adios Charlie has been first or second at the first call of all but one of her 13 career races, in which she finished in the money11 times. Fawkes-trained Charlie's Wish, another ultra-consistent competitor who is coming off a 4 ¾-length romp in the Azalea, will face older horses for the first time Saturday as will Alvarado-trained Flakes, the Azalea runner-up.

Race 10, a five-furlong maiden race for $10,000 claiming fillies and mares on Tapeta, will likely be a popular 'spread' leg among Rainbow 6 bettors.

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Sunday’s Cross Country Pick 5 Features Action From Saratoga, King’s Plate Day At Woodbine

The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) will host a Cross Country Pick 5 on Sunday featuring racing from Saratoga Race Course and stakes action from the lucrative King's Plate Day card at Woodbine Racetrack.

The Cross Country Pick 5 requires bettors to pick the winner of five select races from tracks across the country. The minimum bet for the multi-track, multi-race wager is 50 cents. Wagering on the Cross Country Pick 5 is available on ADW platforms and at simulcast facilities across the country with each week featuring a mandatory payout of the net pool.

The Cross Country Pick 5, boasting a low 15 percent takeout, offers sequences with races from Saratoga Race Course and partner tracks across the country.

Free Equibase past performances for the Cross Country Pick 5 sequence will be available for download at https://www.nyra.com/saratoga/racing/crosscountrywagers.

Cross Country Pick 5 – Sunday, August 20

Leg A: Woodbine – Race 8, $125K Soaring Free (4:23 p.m. Eastern)

Leg B: Saratoga – Race 7, ALW (4:37 p.m.)

Leg C: Woodbine – Race 9, G2 Dance Smartly (4:58 p.m.)

Leg D: Saratoga  – Race 8, MSW (5:14 p.m.)

Leg E: Woodbine – Race 10, $1 million King's Plate (5:39 p.m.)

Saratoga Live will present daily coverage and analysis of the summer meet at Saratoga Race Course on the networks of FOX Sports. For the complete broadcast schedule, visit https://www.nyra.com/saratoga/racing/tv-schedule.

NYRA Bets is the best way to bet every race of the Belmont spring/summer meet. Available to horse players nationwide, the NYRA Bets app is available for download today on iOS and Android at www.NYRABets.com.

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Santa Anita Reverts To Traditional Pick 6 For Autumn Meet Beginning Sept. 29

Santa Anita Park has announced that beginning with the opening of its 18-day Autumn Meet on Friday, Sept. 29, the track will offer a traditional $1 Pick Six. Track officials have responded to the wishes of a vast number of players seeking a return to a more traditional Pick Six format with 70 percent of the net pool paid to tickets which correctly select all six winners and 30 percent paid in a consolation payoff to those players who select five of six winners.

As is the case with the traditional Pick Six format, in the event there are no tickets with all six winners, 70 percent of the net pool is carried over to the next card and 30 percent is paid out to winning consolation tickets.

The Pick Six will again be comprised of the final six races on each day's program with a mandatory payout in place on closing day, Sunday, Nov. 5.

Santa Anita's Autumn Meet will be highlighted by the 40th Breeders' Cup World Championships, which will be hosted by Santa Anita for a record 11th time on Friday, Nov. 3 and Saturday, Nov. 4.

Live racing will be offered on a Friday through Sunday basis for the entire meet, with the exception of special holiday racing on Monday, Oct. 9, which is Indigenous People's Day, and on Thursday, Nov. 2, the day before the Breeders' Cup World Championships. (Santa Anita will be open for simulcast wagering only on Friday, Oct. 13).

For more information on Santa Anita's Autumn Meet and the 40th annual Breeders' Cup World Championships, please visit santaanita.com or call (626) 574-RACE.

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