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Stakes-Quality Allowance At Laurel Highlights Friday’s Stronach 5

A $55,000 allowance event at Laurel Park featuring six stakes winners, including two graded-stakes winners, highlight a competitive Stronach 5 Friday with a $100,000 guaranteed pool and an industry-low 12-percent takeout.

The third leg of the sequence, Laurel's eighth race for 3-year-olds and up going a mile, could well be a stakes race. The field of 10 includes graded-stakes winners No Dozing and Name Changer, multiple-stakes winner Alwaysmining, graded-stakes placed and stakes winners Honor the Fleet and Cordmaker, and stakes winner John Jones.

The second leg of the Stronach 5, Gulfstream's ninth race, is a $47,0000 allowance optional claimer at a mile for fillies and mares, while Laurel's ninth race and the conclusion of the Stronach 5 features a competitive field of 10 3-year-olds and up going 1 1/16 miles on the All Along turf course.

Friday's races and sequence

· Leg One – Laurel Park 7th Race: (13 entries, 5 1/2 furlongs turf) 3:50 ET, 12:50 PT

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

· Leg Three –Laurel Park 8th Race: (10 entries, 1 mile) 4:21 ET, 1:21 PT

· Leg Four –Gulfstream Park 10th Race: (11 entries, 1 mile turf) 4:30 ET, 1:30 PT

· Leg Five –Laurel Park 9th race: (10 entries, 1 1 1/6 mile turf) 4:52 ET, 1:52 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.

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Announcer, Analyst McNerney Hoping To Bring ‘More Educated Angles’ To Dual Role At Ellis Park

Jimmy McNerney, Ellis Park's announcer who also does the morning line and race selections for the program, is resuming his role as pre-race analyst from his booth. Rocco O'Connor, the paddock analyst the past two years, has left horse racing.

McNerney also is the race-caller at Turfway Park during the winter and a top jockey agent at Indiana Grand. He believes having a bird's-eye view of so many races helps him in his handicapping.

“I think I have unique insight just from my other duty as announcer,” said McNerney, who had been the Ellis broadcast analyst several years ago and also holds that position at Turfway Park. “Not that other people can't see it on replays, but I do catch stuff. I watch the horses on the gallop-out, whereas the normal replay stops and goes back to odds or slow-mo finish. I can see them galloping out. I watch all that stuff, really critique a race. When I prepare, I watch the last couple of replays of most horses, not only for handicapping purposes but I do it also because sometimes you need the pronunciation of a name. Probably being an announcer gives me a little more insight.

“And I'm so close to all those people down there that I have a lot of insight with the local horsemen. I know how horses are training. I hope I can bring a little more educated angles.”

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Rainbow 6: Gulfstream’s Mandatory Payout Tuesday Yields Payouts Of $6,533

Gulfstream Park's mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 Tuesday returned $6,533.16 with four of the six winners being post-time favorites.

There was $3,478,915 bet into the pool Tuesday. The Rainbow 6 will begin again Wednesday afternoon with a $100,000 guaranteed pool. First race post is noon.

Tuesday's Rainbow 6 started with favored Dinner At Five, the 4-5 favorite trained by David Braddy, winning Gulfstream's fourth race. The third and fourth legs of the Rainbow 6 produced big payouts with Miss Mac ($69.80) winning the sixth race and Allegedly Perfect ($38.60) winning the seventh. Even-money favorite Panarea ($4) won the fifth leg of the Rainbow 6 before the sequence wrapped up with 4-5 favorite I'm Prayingforthat ($3.60) winning Gulfsream's ninth and final race.

The carryover jackpot 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.

Gulfstream's 10-race program Wednesday includes a couple of maiden special weight events. The second race, for 2-year-old fillies going five furlongs on the turf, includes Flaxman Holdings Ltd.'s Uyuni, a daughter of Uncle Mo trained by Wesley Ward, and Arindel's homebred Tequa, who finished second in her debut. The fourth race, for fillies and mares, Karl and Cathi Glassman's first-time starter Pertinent. First race post Wednesday is 1 p.m…Gulfstream's July 4th program will feature 12 races including the $75,000 Carry Back for 3-year-olds and the $75,000 Azalea for 3-year-old fillies. First race post is noon.

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Emerald Downs: Wednesday Card Features $31,361 Carryover In $0.50 Pick 5

Week two of the 2020 season at Emerald Downs in Auburn, Wash. begins Wednesday with a 10-race program at 2:15 p.m., and continues Thursday with a nine-race card at 5 p.m. Wednesday has added intrigue with a $31,361 carryover in the $0.50 Pick 5 on races 6 through 10.

For handicappers, opening week proved challenging with favorites clicking in just four of 20 races for a lowly 20 percent strike rate. Eleven winners reached double digits including bombers Constant Craving ($49.40), Benny the Jet ($45), Cate's Gold ($40) and Ri' Pin Snap ($35.40).

A certain amount of wackiness is to be expected. Most of the horses that ran last week had not seen racing action since 2019, and the ones that had raced had been off for several weeks. Handicapping is tricky without current form to evaluate, but also lucrative!

$0.50 Pick 5 Synopsis:

Race 6 (4:55 PDT), $8,000 claiming, F&M NW3L, 5 ½ furlongs: Trainer Jorge Rosales won at a 27 percent clip here in 2019 (28 for 105) including a 10 for 35 mark with owner Marjorie Avery. Here they team with Coilette, a fast California-bred who beat older fillies and mares last fall in a $16,000 NW2L at Del Mar. Anything close gets the job done here. Emma's a Beast had a productive spring on the Tapeta at Golden Gate but this is her debut vs. older horses, while Sadie Sue returns to dirt for top trainer Blaine Wright.

Race 7, $18,000 MSW, 3-year-olds and up, 5 ½ furlongs: The three Chris Stenslie/Jody Peetz runners are all full brothers to Emerald Downs Horse of the Meetings! Spittin Image (Harbor the Gold-Flying Memo) is the younger brother of O B Harbor, Harbors Rule (Harbor the Gold-Felice the Cat) is younger brother of Mach One Rules and Brothers (Harbor the Gold-Bahati) is kin to Sippin Fire. The Stenslie trainees are 6-1, 6-1 and 7-2 on the morning line. This race is difficult. Morning line favorite Time 'n Time Again has lost 13 times but has earned over $43,000 and came within a head of crossing the wire first in the 2018 Gottstein Futurity.

Race 8, $15,000 claiming, 3-year-olds and up NW3L, 5 ½ furlongs: After smashing the single season record last year with 81 wins, trainer Frank Lucarelli is off and running again in 2020, bagging three wins, three seconds and two thirds from 11 starts last week. Luke has 'em surrounded in this one with morning line favorites Golden Cowboy (6-5) and Irish Terrier (7-2). Although winless in 11 tries last year, Cowboy earned decent figures while banging heads with sharp older sprinters such as Cross Creek, So Lucky and Freiburg, and his tactical speed is an asset in a field without a confirmed front runner. Incidentally, there were 12 races last week at 5 ½ furlongs, and six were won gate to wire, one was taken by a stalker, and five were won by come from behinders.

Race 9, $18,500 ALW, F&M NW2L or WA-BRED NW3L, 5 ½ furlongs: Last year's state and track champion juvenile filly Windy Point makes her 2020 debut in this evenly matched sprint. Windy was 2-2-0 in five starts as a juvenile including a dominant victory in the Washington Cup; the lone misfire was against males from the 12-post in the two-turn Gottstein Futurity. She looks ready to fire after a steady stream of works for underrated trainer Jose Navarro, and her versatile style is helped by an outside post. There are four 4-year-olds in the race including a pair from the Kay Cooper barn. Magical Spell finished a great second to state champion sophomore filly Alittlelesstalk in the Washington Cup at a mile while Suddenly Awesome banged heads with the likes of Killarney Lass, Alittlelesstalk and No Talking Back.

Race 10, $8,000 maiden claiming, F&M, 6 furlongs: A combination of a decent recent race at Golden Gate and jockey Gary Wales makes Stand in Your Love formidable in the nightcap. Whata Flirt makes her Emerald Downs debut for trainer Sharon Ross and the Emerald Racing Club, but the 5-year-old mare has 12 runner-up finishes without a victory on her resume. Perhaps a return to dirt does the trick? I C Fire is another with a fair recent race in the Bay Area, and the barn clicked at a big price with its lone starter last week.

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