Horseplayers | Horse Racing Free Tips

Santa Anita’s Free Online ‘Showvivor’ Handicapping Challenge Returns With $5,000 Prize Money

Santa Anita's popular free online “Showvivor” marks its return on opening day, Saturday, Dec. 26, with a new Total Win Earnings category and a Monthly Contest provision which will be included in the existing season-long total prize money awarded of $5,000.

With special early first post on opening day pegged at 11 a.m., the contest offers fans a variety of cash incentives, highlighted by the $2,500 top prize, which will be awarded to the longest “Show Streak” over the course of the entire Winter/Spring season which culminates on June 20.

Registration at showvivor.santaanita.com is free and easy and Showvivor participants can select one horse from one race each racing day. That horse must run no worse than third in order for the player to “Showvive.” If the player's selection fails to run 1-2-3, that individual is not totally eliminated, as he or she may start up a new streak the next racing day. The player with the longest “Show Streak” on June 20 will be declared the top prize winner of $2,500.

The longest “Show Streak” is just one of five separate says to win beginning Dec. 26.

SHOW STREAK The player that has the longest “show” or no-worse than third place finish streak at the end of the Winter/Spring Meet will win the Grand Prize of $2,500. Players are advised that if they fail to make an online selection on a given day, their streak is still alive, but they will not receive credit for any days missed.

WIN STREAK This carries a $1,000 prize and is intended to reward players who have selected the most consecutive first place finishers. If a player fails to make a selection on a given day, his or her streak may continue, but the player will not receive credit for any days missed.

TOTAL WINS On closing day, June 20, the player that has selected the most total wins will receive a $500 prize.

HIGHEST SINGLE WIN PAYOUT This carries a $500 prize and will be awarded to the player with the single highest win payout (on a Two Dollar wager) over the course of the entire meet.

TOTAL WIN EARNINGS This is a new Showvivor category which carries a prize of $500 and is awarded to the player that accumulates the highest total dollar amount-won based on their selections at the end of the meet. For example, each time an entrant's selection finishes in first place in the official standings (Wins), the dollar amount, based on Santa Anita's official Two Dollar Win payout, will be added to that player's total money-won to date. The winner will be determined on closing day.

MONTHLY CONTEST, NEW WAY TO WIN Separated into five different date ranges, beginning Dec. 26 through Jan. 31, and ending June 4 through June 20, the winner, by Total Monthly Win Earnings, of each of these individual calendar periods earns an entry into the next $500 Live Money Handicapping Contest via Xpressbet and thus an opportunity to compete for more cash and prizes. No exchanges are offered.

Entries for opening day, Saturday, Dec. 26, will be taken this Monday, Dec. 21. For additional information on ShowVivor, please visit santaanita.com or call (626) 574-RACE.

The post Santa Anita’s Free Online ‘Showvivor’ Handicapping Challenge Returns With $5,000 Prize Money appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

TVG’s Weekend Coverage Highlighted By Road To The Kentucky Derby Preps

The road to the 2021 Kentucky Derby will run through Remington Park and Los Alamitos this weekend with live coverage of the $200,000 Remington Springboard Mile on Friday and the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) on TVG, America's horse racing network. Additional stakes races from Fair Grounds and Gulfstream Park will highlight the weekend's broadcast.

With qualifying points for the 2021 Kentucky Derby on the line, Friday night's $200,000 Remington Springboard Mile has drawn a field of eleven juveniles to compete in the one-mile contest. Outadore, third in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) for trainer Wesley Ward, will square off against a pair of rivals for trainer Steve Asmussen including Cowan, the runner-up in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1). Post time for the Remington Springboard Mile is 11:28 p.m. Eastern.

TVG's Mike Joyce and Britney Eurton will be live on-site at Los Alamitos this weekend with expert analysis and insights into Saturday's ten-race card including the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2), the fourth race of the day. The race offers points towards a spot in the starting gate at the 2021 Kentucky Derby and has drawn a field of six including Spielberg for trainer Bob Baffert. Baffert has won the last six editions of the Los Alamitos Futurity and saddled Thousand Words to victory in 2019 with Flavien Prat aboard. Prat also has the mount on Spielberg.

The action will continue at Fair Grounds this weekend with a supersized thirteen race card which will feature six stakes races. The thirteenth and final race on the card, the $75,000 Tenacious Stakes, will mark the return of promising 3-year-old Maxfield for trainer Brendan Walsh. A homebred for Godolphin, the dark bay son of Street Sense is undefeated from three starts and has been on the sidelines since a victory in the Matt Winn Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs in May. Florent Geroux will be in the irons.

The featured race at Gulfstream Park on Saturday is the $100,000 Mr. Prospector Stakes (G3) which has attracted a contentious field of twelve including the 2019 winner, Diamond Oops for trainer Patrick Biancone. The 5-year-old gelding, sixth in the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) will face off against multiple graded stakes winner Firenze Fire for trainer Kelly Breen.

In addition to racing from Los Alamitos, Remington Park and Fair Grounds, TVG will also be featuring Aqueduct, Tampa Bay Downs, Laurel Park and more. Fans can tune in on TVG, TVG2 and the Watch TVG app which is available on Amazon Fire, Roku and connected Apple TV devices.

The post TVG’s Weekend Coverage Highlighted By Road To The Kentucky Derby Preps appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

$423,178 Carryover In Friday’s ‘Traditional’ Pick 6 At Los Alamitos

A $33 upset by Smart Nonni in Thursday's ninth and final race at Los Alamitos in Cypress, Calif., triggered a fourth consecutive carryover in the track's Pick 6.

The carryover will be a robust $423,178 when racing resumes Friday and will be paid out to all tickets selecting six correct winners in the $2 base wager spanning races four through nine.

There were live tickets into the finale to the first three betting choices – one each to favored Squared Shady and second choice Coco's Joy and two to second time starter Sircat Nelly – but the best any of those participants could do was Squared Shady's fourth place finish.

Edgar Payeras was aboard for Swift Nonni's easy gate-to-wire score for a partnership and trainer Marcia Stortz.

The Pick 6 will begin in Friday's fourth race. Post time is 12:30 p.m. and scheduled post time for the fourth is 1:58 p.m.

There is also a three-day Super High Five carryover of $69,226. The $1 minimum wager will be offered – per usual – on the day's final race. Friday's ninth has a scheduled post time of 4:28 p.m.

The post $423,178 Carryover In Friday’s ‘Traditional’ Pick 6 At Los Alamitos appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

Laurel Park, Gulfstream Gear Up For Stronach 5

Friday's Stronach 5, featuring an industry-low 12-percent takeout, will feature five competitive races from Gulfstream Park and Laurel Park, including two on the turf.

The Stronach 5 kicks off at 3:49 ET with the eighth race from Laurel and concludes with Gulfstream's 10^th race at 5:10 ET.

Handicappers from Gulfstream and Laurel have put together an All-Star Stronach 5 ticket of $108.

All-Star Ticket: https://www.xbtv.com/video/stronach-5/stronach-5-all-star-ticket-for-december-18th-2020/

Laurel's eighth race begins the sequence. The six-furlong optional allowance event brings together Trunk of Money, a winner of three consecutive races for trainer Scott Lake, and Fille d'Esprit, a winner of her last three and six of her last seven. John Robb trains.

The second leg of the sequence, Gulfstream's eighth race, is a starter optional claimer at a mile on the turf. Mike Maker sends out Storming Lion, a maiden winner at Churchill Downs last time out. Thinkaboutit, trained by Eddie Plesa Jr., enters the race off a victory against maiden claimers at Gulfstream Park West as does Honorable from the stable of Todd Pletcher.

After a two-turn claiming event at Laurel for $5,000 claimers which attracted a field of 10, the Stronach 5 wraps up with two races from Gulfstream. The fourth leg of the sequence, Gulfstream's ninth race, an allowance optional claimer contested over a mile turf course for fillies and mares, brings together a competitive field of 10 including graded-stakes placed Sister Hanan from the Brad Cox stable and six other stakes-placed fillies and mares. Gulfstream's 10^thrace wraps up the Stronach 5 as a field of 10 claimers go six furlongs.

Friday's races and sequence:

– Leg One – Laurel Park 8^th Race: (10 entries, 6 furlongs) 3:49 ET, 12:49 PT

– Leg Two –Gulfstream Park 8^th Race: (9 entries, 1 mile turf) 4:08 ET, 1:08 PT

– Leg Three –Laurel Park 9^th Race: (10 entries, 1 1 1/6 mile) 4:18 ET, 1:18 PT

– Leg Four –Gulfstream Park 9^th Race: (10 entries, 1 mile turf) 4:39 ET, 1:39 PT

– Leg Five –Gulfstream West 10^th Race: (10 entries, 6 furlongs) 5:10 ET, 2:10 PT

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.

The post Laurel Park, Gulfstream Gear Up For Stronach 5 appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post