Friday’s Stronach 5 Yields Multiple Payoffs of $12,378
BALTIMORE – The national weekly Stronach 5 wager produced 10 winning tickets worth $12,378.30 each following Friday’s cross-country sequence. A total of $138,309.19 was put into the popular multi-race, multi-track wager that features an industry-low 12 percent takeout. Friday’s sequence opened with three consecutive turf races on both coasts followed by a pair of West […]
State Record Rainbow 6 Carryover Grows to $625,866 for Saturday
Winston Pegg, Hightailing & Owner-Trainer Towler Break Maidens Friday Jockey Carrasco, Trainer Trombetta Team Up for Friday Triple BALTIMORE – After going unsolved Friday, the Maryland state record carryover jackpot in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 reached $625,866.27 for Saturday’s nine-race program at Pimlico Race Course. Post time is 12:40 p.m. No horses were live to […]
Chance It Set for Long-Awaited Return in Sunday Feature
Multiple Graded-Stakes Winner Tonalist’s Shape Returns Saturday HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Shooting Star Thoroughbreds LLC’s Chance It found no easy spot to make his long-awaited return to the races in Sunday’s feature race at Gulfstream Park, where the popular multiple-stakes winner is scheduled to face five battle-tested rivals in a six-furlong optional claiming allowance. “I’m […]
Wondrwherecraigis Has Connections Excited After Impressive Comeback
Multiple Stakes Winner Anna’s Bandit Breezes Wednesday, Nears Return Sunday Program Includes Maiden Special Weight for Juvenile Fillies BALTIMORE – Wonder no more. Michael Dubb, The Elkstone Group, Madaket Stables and Bethlehem Stables’ stakes-placed Wondrwherecraigis is back, and in a big way. The 4-year-old Munnings gelding made a triumphant return after 258 days between races […]
Impressive Debut Winner Sosua Fights Back to Take Thursday Feature
Maryland State Record Rainbow 6 Carryover Reaches $598,522 for Friday BALTIMORE – Mark B. Grier’s Sosua, favored at 4-5 off a 12 ¾-length debut victory March 31 at Tampa Bay Downs, set the pace into mid-stretch, briefly lost the lead and then fought back again along the inside to edge Pretty Edgy by a nose […]
Stronach 5 Kicks off With Allowance Race from Old Hilltop
Four Tracks, 12-Percent Takeout BALTIMORE – Friday’s Stronach 5 will feature full fields, four tracks, and an industry-low 12-percent takeout. The popular wager, which had three winning tickets last week each worth $40,140, will feature racing from Pimlico Race Course, Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Fields and an industry-low 12-percent takeout. The […]
Maryland Record $562,931 Rainbow 6 Carryover Thursday at Pimlico
BALTIMORE – After going unsolved during an all-stakes sequence May 15 capped by Rombauer’s upset victory in the 146th Preakness (G1), Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown, the 20-cent Rainbow 6 will have a Maryland state record jackpot carryover of $562,931 when live racing returns to Pimlico Race Course Thursday. Post time for the first […]
Asmussen Earns Richest Preakness Weekend Trainer Bonus
Edges Defending Champion Maker for Third Win in Five Years BALTIMORE – Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen edged defending champion Mike Maker to claim the top prize of $50,000 for the third time in five years in the Maryland Jockey Club’s $100,000 trainer bonus offered to horsemen for their participation in stakes races over Preakness […]
Preakness (G1) Hero Rombauer Headed for Belmont Monday
Belmont Stakes (G1) Likely for Preakness Runner-Up Midnight Bourbon Medina Spirit, Concert Tour Exit Preakness in Good Order BALTIMORE – After a few hours of sleep, trainer Michael McCarthy was back at Pimlico Race Course Sunday morning, quietly talking about Rombauer’s emphatic victory in the 146th Preakness Stakes (G1) Saturday and looking ahead to the […]
Rombauer Rallies to Pull Upset in Saturday’s 146th Preakness Stakes (G1)
Derby Winner Medina Spirit Fades to 3rd in Middle Jewel of Triple Crown BALTIMORE – John and Diane Fradkin’s Rombauer staged a powerful rally through the stretch of Pimlico Race Course to register an 11-1 upset victory in Saturday’s 146th Preakness Stakes (G1). The $1 million Preakness Stakes, renewed under sunny skies and temperatures in […]