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Friday The 13th Luck On The Line In Special Stronach 5

Bettors will have an opportunity to get lucky on a special Friday the 13th edition of the Stronach 5 with races from Laurel Park, Gulfstream Park West and Golden Gate Fields.

Beginning at approximately 3:24 p.m. EST, the Stronach 5 will once again feature an industry-low 12-percent takeout.

Laurel will kick off the Stronach 5 with three consecutive racing starting in Race 7, a waiver maiden claimer for 2-year-olds sprinting seven furlongs that attracted a field of 12 juveniles led by 9-5 program favorite Hello Hot Rod from the red-hot barn of trainer Brittany Russell.

The sequence continues in Race 8, a starter optional claimer for 3-year-olds and up going six furlongs where Nomo Ron, a last out winner at the track and distance, is the 5-2 top choice in a field of nine, and Laurel's Race 9 finale, a maiden claiming event for 3-year-olds and up at about 1 1/16 miles.

Action moves to Gulfstream Park West's Race 9 finale for Leg D, a one-mile claiming event for fillies and mares 3 and up scheduled for the grass featuring 2-1 turf favorite Hoponthebusgus, a seven-time career winner of nearly $260,000 in purses, and Free to Fly, the top choice should the race be moved to the main track.

Wrapping up the Stronach 5 is Race 3 from Golden Gate, a maiden claimer for fillies and mares 3 and up sprinting five furlongs over the all-weather surface. Barbara DeLima homebred Irenie, second in her previous start, is the 2-1 morning-line favorite.

Friday's races and sequence

· Leg One – Laurel Park 7th Race: (12 entries, 7 furlongs) 3:24 ET, 12:24 PT

· Leg Two –Laurel Park 8th Race: (9 entries, 6 furlongs) 3:54 ET, 12:54 PT

· Leg Three –Laurel Park 9th Race: (12 entries, abt. 1 1/16 miles) 4:24 ET, 1:24 PT

· Leg Four –Gulfstream West 9th Race: (14 entries, 1 mile turf) 4:42 ET, 1:42 PT

· Leg Five –Golden Gate Fields 3rd Race: (8 entries, 5 furlongs) 4:44 ET, 1:44 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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Gulfstream West Postpones Four Turf Stakes Due To Wet Conditions

Continuing wet weather conditions in South Florida have led Gulfstream Park West officials to postpone four Florida-bred turf stakes scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 14 to Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 21 and 22.

The $60,000 Millions Turf Preview for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/16 miles, where 7-year-old Galleon Mast is targeting a three-peat, and the $60,000 Juvenile Fillies Turf at one mile have both been moved to the Nov. 21 program.

Led by defending champion Picara, 4-for-6 lifetime at Gulfstream West, females 3 and up will go 7 ½ furlongs in the $60,000 Filly & Mare Turf Preview, and 2-year-olds will travel one mile in the $60,000 Juvenile Turf Nov. 22.

Five of Saturday's nine-race card are $60,000 state-bred stakes, all scheduled for the main track – the Millions Classic Preview for 3-year-olds and up at one mile (Race 3); Juvenile Fillies Sprint (Race 4) and Juvenile Sprint (Race 7), each at 6 ½ furlongs; six-furlong Millions Sprint (Race 5) and seven-furlong Millions Distaff (Race 8).

Post time Saturday is 12:35 p.m.

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Economics Professor Marshall Gramm Wins 2020 Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge

Making the biggest wagering score of his life, Marshall Gramm, an economics professor at Rhodes College and a racehorse owner from Memphis, Tenn., nailed a cold exacta with Authentic and Improbable for $170,250 in the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) to propel him to victory last Saturday in the 2020 Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge.

The 12th annual Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge, Thoroughbred racing's biggest live-money tournament, held Nov. 6-7, featured 430 top horseplayers wagering on the two-day card of the 37th Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington.

Gramm, 47, finished with a total score of 170,250 points. Combined with his first-place prize of $322,500, Gramm had total winnings of $492,750. That put him ahead of second-place finisher Jonathon Kinchen, NYRA/Fox Sports television handicapper and analyst. Kinchen compiled 161,025.20 points, and combined with his second-place prize of $215,000, he had total winnings of $376,025.20. Dylan Donnelly, from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., finished third with 136,200 points and $118,250 in prize money, for total winnings of $254,450.

In this year's BCBC, each player was required to fund a $2,500 buy-in and a $7,500 betting bankroll ($10,000 total). All buy-in monies were applied to the prize pool, making the total prize pool $1,075,000. Players made real wagers (win, place, show, exacta, trifecta and daily double) with their $7,500 bankroll on 22 races over the two days and kept all monies earned from their wagering.

A big sports fan who grew up in Washington, D.C., Gramm loved “numbers and statistics,” and learned the handicapping game by reading books from noted racing journalist and author Andrew Beyer.

Gramm has played in the BCBC five of the last six years, registering his best finish in 2018, taking fifth place. He has been teaching economics at Rhodes College since 2000 and currently chairs the department. Gramm has taught a course at Rhodes called Economics of Racetrack Wagering Markets, which he describes as a class on “decision making, price discovery and probability.” Along with Clay Sanders, he is also co-managing partner of Ten Strike Racing, a stable that has won 338 races, including stakes winners Dot Matrix, Long On Value and Warrior's Charge.

Gramm experienced a range of emotions when he learned that he had won the tournament. “When I hit (the exacta), I was thrilled, my biggest score ever. You know you've had a great day, but it was nerve-racking, and a relief, and I will always be able to say that I am a BCBC Champion.”

In this year's BCBC, Gramm was in contention throughout. On Friday, he cashed a $600 daily-double wager on Vequist in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), followed by Aunt Pearl (IRE) capturing the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1). Those bets earned him $17,350 and he closed out the first day of competition in seventh place.

On Saturday, Gramm went “all in” on Monomoy Girl winning the Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1), wagering his $18,165 bankroll and more than doubling his money. After hitting on a minimum show bet in the Longines Breeders' Cup Turf (G1), Gramm went into the Longines Breeders' Cup Classic in 11th place with $36,930. In the climactic race of the World Championships, he made six individual exacta wagers using Authentic, Improbable and Tom's d'Etat. Gramm wagered $7,500 on the Authentic-Improbable combination and won the tournament.

Runner-up Kinchen had nothing but praise for Gramm. “Marshall is a dear friend and I am very happy for him. The BCBC is the Masters of handicapping contests. It's not all about the money, it's about the title. I wanted to win, but there are about three people in the world I am ok running second to, and Marshall is one of them.”

Due to COVID-19 restrictions at Keeneland, most of the BCBC tournament play was conducted online at TVG.com, the official Breeders' Cup wagering partner, Xpressbet.com and NYRA Bets. The BCBC was also conducted at designated satellite locations at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., Del Mar racetrack in Del Mar, Calif., and at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif.

A list of the top 15 BCBC finishers appears below. Complete tournament results are available here.

Player	Score	Prize Money	Total
1	Marshall Gramm	170,250.00	$322,500.00	492,750.00
2	Jonathon Kinchen	161,025.20	$215,000.00	376,025.20
3	Dylan Donnelly	136,200.00	$118,250.00	254,450.00
4	Matthew Kwiatkowski	133,501.60	$80,625.00	214,126.60
5	Jason Lane	120,000.00	$64,500.00	184,500.00
6	Brendan Fay	107,110.00	$53,750.00	160,860.00
7	Vic Stauffer	77,900.00	$43,000.00	120,900.00
8	Steven Wells	52,980.00	$37,625.00	90,605.00
9	Robert Shoemaker	42,739.40	$32,250.00	74,989.40
10	James Lisowsky	42,634.30	$26,875.00	69,509.30
11	Frank Gryboski	42,201.60	$21,500.00	63,701.60
12	Mike Yurczyk	42,200.05	$18,812.50	61,012.55
13	Matthew Kwiatkowski	40,416.00	$16,125.00	56,541.00
14	Christy Moore	37,067.50	$13,437.50	50,505.00
15	Brent Johnson	36,996.50	$10,750.00	47,746.50

Online qualifying for the 2021 Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge begins this Sunday, Nov. 15 on Horseplayers.com. A guaranteed 2021 BCBC berth will be awarded to the winner of the contest, which has a $500 entry fee and a low 1 per 23 ratio. Players can sign up for Sunday's contest here.

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‘Hard Work Is Paying Off’ For Kendrick Carmouche At Aqueduct

The first weekend of the Aqueduct Racetrack fall meet saw veteran rider Kendrick Carmouche surge to the top of the standings, posting nine wins, a pair of runner-up efforts and a third-place finish in 27 mounts, registering five more wins than the next-closest rider in Pablo Morales with one-sixth of the 18-day meet concluded.

The long-time New York stalwart made a name for himself on the Parx circuit, winning seven riding titles there from 2008-11 and earning induction into its Hall of Fame in 2015. But racing in the highly competitive NYRA circuit has still seen the 36-year-old earn trips to the winner's circle, including aboard Malathaat in the $100,000 Tempted on Friday. That marked a memorable day that also saw him pilot Microsecond to victory in the day's seventh race, earning trainer Todd Pletcher his 5,000th career win.

“Coming from Parx, I could win three, four, sometimes five races a day there, and to come to New York, I've been here for five years and I think the work I've been putting in, you can see it now,” Carmouche said. “I've had a lot of support from my family and the fans and the owners and trainers, they've been great and it means a lot.

“No matter who I'm on, I'm trying to put the horse in the best position for my horse to win,” he added. “I'm putting my horse in the best position. Once I get that, I'm going to try and win it from there. If I don't get the job done, that's the way it is. But it's tough riding with the best riders in New York. I feel like I'm doing good for my situation, I just need to work a little bit harder and do things a little bit different. The hard work is paying off.”

Entering Thursday, Carmouche had posted a winning percentage of 33.33 percent and has finished in the money in more than 44 percent of his starts this meet, compiling earnings of $432,503.

For his career, which started with his first victory in 2000, Carmouche has amassed 3,300 wins in more than 20,000 starts, notching earnings in excess of $112 million and six career Grade 2 wins, including this year aboard Fire At Will in the Pilgrim.

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