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No Winners In Friday’s Stronach 5, $97,891 Carryover To Jan. 22

The Stronach 5 will have a carryover of $97,891.79 Jan. 22 after there were no winning tickets in Friday's popular wager.

The Stronach 5, with an industry-low 12-percent takeout and featuring races from Laurel Park, Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Fields, started with a bang Friday when Step by Step won the opening leg and the eighth race at Laurel and returned $54.

That longshot was followed up by Katniss Kas ($17.20) winning Gulfstream's eighth race and the second leg of the Stronach 5 and Spanish d'Oro ($20.20) winning Laurel's ninth race and third leg of the sequence.

The Stronach 5 moved to California for the last two legs. Bang for Your Bucks ($23.60) won Santa Anita's third race before Colavito ($9.20) took the final leg and third race from Golden Gate.

Friday's races and sequence

Leg One – Laurel Park 8^th Race: Step by Step $54
Leg Two –Gulfstream Park 8^th Race: Katniss Kas $17.20
Leg Three –Laurel Park 9^th Race: Spanish d'Oro $20.20
Leg Four –Santa Anita Park 3^rd Race: Bang for Your Bucks $23.60
Leg Five –Golden Gate Fields 3^rd Race: Colavito $9.20

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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Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Guaranteed At $600,000 Saturday

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $600,000 Saturday at Gulfstream Park.

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved for the fourth racing day in a row following last Saturday's mandatory payout. Multiple tickets with five of six winners were each worth $1,235.24 Friday

The jackpot pool is 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 goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.

Saturday's Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 7-12, including four $75,000 Sunshine Stakes for Florida-breds that offer $25,000 win-only bonuses for horses Florida Sire Stakes-eligible starters.

A mile maiden special weight race for 3-year-olds on turf will kick off the sequence in Race 7. The Sunshine Filly and Mare Turf, a 1 1/16-mile turf event for older fillies and mares, follows in Race 8, featuring multiple graded stakes-placed Kelsey's Cross in a well-balanced field of nine.

Noble Drama is scheduled to defend his title in the Sunshine Classic, a 1 1/8-mile race for older state-breds, in Race 9. The 7-5 morning-line favorite may prove to be a popular Rainbow 6 'single' with many bettors.

Extravagant Kid has also been installed as the 7-5 morning-line favorite for his title defense in the Sunshine Sprint, a six-furlong dash for older horses carded as Race 10. The versatile Brendan Walsh-trained gelding, who was beaten by a length while finishing fourth in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1) last time out, captured the 2020 Sunshine Sprint by 2 ¾ lengths. Mark Casse-trained Proven Strategies, who captured the Toronto Cup at Woodbine last time out and Danny Gargan-trained Venezuelan Hug, winner of the Sunshine Turf Preview at Gulfstream Park West, are among the top contenders for the Sunshine Turf, a 1 1/16-mile turf race for older horses carded as Race 11. A full field of $16,000 claimers will contest Race 12, a 1 1/16-mile turf race for older horses.

There will also be a Super Hi-5 carryover of $5,724.55 heading into Saturday's program.

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Kentucky Legislator Files Bill To Raise Taxes On HHR, ADW, Claims Racing Gets ‘A Sweetheart Deal’

Kentucky State Rep. Kim King (R-Harrodsburg) filed a bill in the state's legislature this week to raise tax rates on advance deposit wagering and historical horse racing handle in Kentucky, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. After researching the issue, King said the current tax rate on ADW is far less than on live bets.

“I think they've really been getting a sweetheart deal and it needs to be updated,” King said.

King's bill would raise the tax rate on HHR activity from 1.5 percent of average daily handle to 3 percent and the rate on ADW from .5 percent to 3 percent. She believes the proposal could generate as much as $40 million for the state to spend on schools, health care and other projects.

King filed a similar bill last year but it did not get out of committee. Rep. Adam Koenig (R-Erlanger), who is a member of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission's Equine Drug Research Council, opposes the measure, expressing concern that tax increases would be passed on to the bettor. Koenig is also chair of the House Committee on Licensing, Occupations and Administrative Regulations, where the bill stalled last year.

In 2020, ADW handle in Kentucky was $282 million, of which $1.4 million went to taxes and only $212,093 went to the state's General Fund. HHR handle was $2.2 billion, of which $33.8 million went to taxes and the General Fund received $15.1 million.

Read more at the Lexington Herald-Leader

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Weekend Lineup Presented By Laurel Park Winter Carnival: Sunshine And A Derby Prep

It may be a light weekend for graded stakes, but there are no fewer than 23 non-graded stakes from coast-to-coast on Saturday, including the Winter Carnival Day card at Laurel Park, Sunshine Day for Florida-breds at Gulfstream Park and California Cup Day for Cal-breds or California-sired runners at Santa Anita.

Fair Grounds in New Orleans has a 13-race card with six stakes in all, two of them graded, including the G3 Lecomte, a qualifying points race for the G1 Kentucky Derby. Aqueduct offers the 150th running of the Ladies Handicap, and Tampa Bay Downs presents the Pasco and Gasparilla for 3-year-olds and 3-year-old fillies, respectively, that may have designs on official Derby and Kentucky Derby points races down the road at the Oldsmar, Fla., track.

The action at Laurel gets under way at 12:25 p.m. (all times Eastern) with a nine-race card featuring six consecutive stakes beginning with the Geisha (Race 3, 1:23 p.m.) for older fillies and mares going one mile. The stakes finale at Laurel is the inaugural running of the Spectacular Bid for 3-year-olds going seven furlongs, where a field of nine will go postward.

Winter Carnival Day entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/RaceCardIndexLRL011621USA-EQB.html

Gulfstream Park's 12-race program starts at 11:45 a.m. ET, with the Sunshine Filly and Mare Turf Stakes kicking off the stakes action in the eighth race at 3:15 p.m. The stakes that follow consecutively are the Sunshine Classic, Sunshine Sprint and Sunshine Turf.

Sunshine Day entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/GP011621USA-EQB.html

California Cup Day has 10 races including five stakes for state-bred runners. First post is noon locally (3 p.m. ET) and the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf gets the stakes going in the day's fourth race at 4:30 p.m. ET. Field sizes throughout the day are large, with 105 horses entered in the 10 races.

Cal Cup Day entries: https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/RaceCardIndexSA011621USA-EQB.html

Here's a quick look at the graded stakes

Saturday, Jan. 16

5:23 p.m. ET – $125,000 Louisiana Stakes at Fair Grounds

Wells Bayou, the G2 Louisiana Derby winner in 2020 in front-running fashion, makes his first start in the G3 Louisiana Stakes since finishing a well-beaten fifth in a division of the G1 Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn last May 2. Will he be ready to fire his best off the layoff? Blackberry Wine figures to be breathing down the neck of Wells Bayou and comes off a sharp score in allowance company at Fair Grounds Dec. 13, earning a 98 Beyer Speed Figure in the process. Silver Prospector will be running late in this 1 1/16-mile main track race.

https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/FG011621USA10-EQB.html

6:49 p.m. ET – $200,000 Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds

Trainer Michael Stidham appears to have a strong one-two punch in this G3 Kentucky Derby points race (note that none of the 11 starters will be treated with race-day Lasix in accordance with the eligibility rules for Derby points). Proxy has won two straight at Fair Grounds for Stidham, and this Tapit colt was produced from Panty Raid, winner of the G1 American Oaks on turf and the G1 Spinster on dirt. His other Lecomte runner is Manor House, an upstart gelding who won his debut at Laurel in December by 12 1/4 lengths. Both showed speed and there are several others in the lineup who could make things very competitive on the front end. That could set things up for the stretch-running colt Midnight Bourbon from the Steve Asmussen barn.

https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/FG011621USA13-EQB.html

Sunday, Jan. 17

6:30 p.m. ET – $100,000 Astra Stakes at Santa Anita

Racing fans will get a glimpse of Santa Anita's famous hillside turf course as the nine fillies and mares in the 1 1/2-mile Astra Stakes begin their journey on that course, cross over the main track, then travel once around the turf oval. Quick, the 5-2 morning line favorite trained by John Sadler, has just one victory from eight starts since being imported from England. Second choice Altea, a French-bred formerly trained by Chad Brown but switched to Michael McCarthy prior to her last start in the Dec. 27 Robert J. Frankel (G3), is 1-for-19 in the U.S. since importation from France. Neither inspires great confidence. Avenue de France does like to win, but two of her three career victories from eight starts were in France. She comes off an allowance win for Leonard Powell and might be the “now” horse.

https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/SA011721USA7-EQB.html

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