Racing News

Record Rainbow 6 Jackpot at $1.09 Million for Friday Return

Video: MJC Host-Analyst Naomi Tukker Handicaps Sequence

BALTIMORE – Unsolved during an action-packed Sunday featuring five stakes worth $475,000 in purses, the Maryland state record carryover jackpot in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 stands at $1,093,866.44 when live racing returns to historic Pimlico Race Course Friday.

Post time for the first of eight races is 12:40 p.m.

Marquez Getting Journeyman Career Off to Strong Start

18-Year-Old Leading Rider at Historic Pimlico Race Course

BALTIMORE – A quick look will show Charlie Marquez still on top of the rider standings at historic Pimlico Race Course during its extended Preakness Meet, a spot the teenage sensation has held for weeks, but a closer looks reveals one significant change.

Stronach 5 Returns with Races from Pimlico, Gulfstream & Santa Anita

12-Percent Industry-Low Takeout

BALTIMORE – The Stronach 5 returns Friday with two competitive maiden races and two turf races with full fields from Pimlico and Santa Anita.

The popular wager, cancelled last week when rainstorms forced racing at Pimlico to be called off after the second race, begins Friday at 3:45 ET with Pimlico’s seventh race, a 1 1/16 mile claiming race on the turf from for 3-year-olds and up.

Chub Wagon Stays Undefeated with $100,000 Shine Again Victory

$350,000 Princess Rooney (G2) July 3 at Gulfstream Park Possible Next Spot

BALTIMORE – Daniel Lopez and George Chestnut’s undefeated Chub Wagon passed her biggest test to date with flying colors, reeling in multiple stakes-winning pacesetter Hello Beautiful through the stretch and surging late for a thrilling half-length victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Shine Again at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Street Lute Wins $100,000 Stormy Blues for Seventh Stakes Victory

Valued Notion Leads All the Way in $75,000 Ben’s Cat
    
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– The silks jockey Xavier Perez wore said it all – Lucky 7.

Despite an awkward start while breaking from the outside post, Street Lute won her seventh stakes race when she gamely drove around the field to win Sunday’s $100,000 Stormy Blues at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Godolphin's Pixelate Drives to Victory in $100,00 Prince George's County

BALTIMORE – Godophin LLC’s Pixelate, fifth in the Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1) and beaten a nose last time out here in the Henry Clark, ran down Logical Myth down the stretch to win Sunday’s $100,000 Prince George’s County at Pimlico Race Course by a length.

Trained by Michael Stidham and ridden by Joe Bravo, Pixelate covered a good 1 1/8 mile turf course in 1:53.56. Eons finished third and Argonne fourth.

Stidham called the win “very satisfying because he’s there every time.”

Blame Debbie Goes the Distance in $100,000 Searching

G3 Winner Ends 200-Day Layoff with Front-Running Win

BALTIMORE – Running 12 furlongs off a 200-day layoff over a turf course that absorbed several days of rain proved no obstacle for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Michael Cloonan and Tim Thornton’s Blame Debbie in a front-running 3 ½-length triumph in Sunday’s $100,000 Searching at historic Pimlico Race Course.

Tucker, Gilbert Handicap Sunday's $1 Million Rainbow 6

Sequence Includes Four of Five Stakes Worth $475,000 in Purses

BALTIMORE – With the Maryland state record 20-cent Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot having surpassed the $1 million mark for Sunday, Maryland Jockey Club host and analyst Naomi Tukker and WBAL-TV sports anchor and reporter Pete Gilbert weighed in with ways to take down the life-changing prize.

Record Rainbow 6 Carryover Tops $1 Million for Stakes-Filled Sunday

Video: Trainers Brittany Russell, Dale Capuano Discuss Stakes Horses

BALTIMORE – Take one formidable undefeated horse, mix in a bevy of local stars and out-of-town shippers, and add a Maryland state record carryover jackpot in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 of more than $1 million and the result is one spectacular afternoon of racing at historic Pimlico Race Course.

MJC’s Tukker, WBAL's Wykoff Handicap Saturday's Nearly $1 Million Rainbow 6

BALTIMORE – A Maryland state record carryover jackpot of nearly $1 million in the Rainbow 6 awaits bettors Saturday at Pimlico Race Course, and Maryland Jockey Club host and analyst Naomi Tukker and guest handicapper Scott Wykoff of WBAL Radio have some thoughts about the 20-cent wager, which begins in Race 3.