Horseplayers

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 went unsolved on Sunday’s Clasico Internacional del Caribe program at Gulfstream Park, growing the carryover jackpot to $250,366.83 for Wednesday, Dec. 11. Multiple tickets with all six winners Sunday each returned $11,806.40. Sunday’s Rainbow 6 was capped by Venezuela’s The Brother Slew ($92.80), ridden by Gulfstream-based jockey Paco Lopez, springing a […]

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 will offer a guaranteed pool of $250,000 for its all-stakes sequence to cap Saturday’s $1.11 million Claiming Crown program at Gulfstream Park. Post time for the first of 11 races is 11:50 a.m. Saturday’s Rainbow 6 will begin in Race 6, the $110,000 Rapid Transit going seven furlongs on the main […]

Saturday’s Cigar Mile Day card will be bolstered by a mandatory payout in the Empire 6 at the Big A. The Empire 6 will start with Race 5, a one-mile maiden event for 2-year-olds, with an approximate post time of 1:35 p.m. Eastern. The highlight of the Aqueduct fall meet, Saturday’s 10-race card features four […]

The Stronach 5, featuring a $100,000 guaranteed pool and industry-low 12-percent takeout, will begin and end on the turf Friday at Gulfstream Park. The popular wager begins at 4 p.m., with a five furlong optional claimer on the turf featuring 11 fillies and mares. It wraps up at 5 p.m. with a mile claiming event […]

Racetrack and advance deposit wagering company officials are among the speakers at Monday’s 3nd Annual National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) Contest Workshop in Tucson, the NTRA announced today. The NHC Contest Workshop, which will be held on the eve of the University of Arizona’s 46th Annual Global Symposium on Racing and Gaming, will take place December 9 at Loews […]

The 31st running of the Grade 1, $750,000 Cigar Mile Handicap drew a field of eight, with many having solid stakes credentials. That being said, all eyes may be on the battle between Maximum Security and Spun to Run. Maximum Security enters the race off strong victories in the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational Stakes and […]

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO), the province’s racing regulator, is considering changes to the rules governing interference in racing, and specifically, adopting the much-discussed Category 1 interference philosophy which is used in nearly every global racing jurisdiction except the United States of America and Canada. The Thoroughbred Idea Foundation (TIF) published a […]

There will be a jackpot carryover of $9,125.32 in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 as Laurel Park moves to a three-day schedule when live racing returns Friday, Dec. 6. After racing on a Thursday through Sunday schedule in October and November, Laurel will race Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays for the duration of the fall meet, which […]

With the Kentucky Derby still 22 weeks away, the pari-mutuel field of “All Other 3-Year-Old Colts and Geldings” closed as the even-money favorite in Pool 1 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW) and Champagne (Grade I) winner Tiz the Law was the 11-1 second choice. Tiz the Law, who finished an adventurous third in […]

There will be a mandatory payout of the Empire 6 on Saturday, December 7 – Cigar Mile Day – at Aqueduct Racetrack. The jackpot carryover heading into Sunday’s card stood at $520,913. The card on December 7 will feature four graded stakes, highlighted by the 31st running of the Grade 1, $750,000 Cigar Mile and […]