Horseplayers

No one picked all five winners in Monmouth Park’s late Pick 5 on Friday, creating a carryover of $12,622.96 for Saturday’s early Pick 5, which is on races one through five. The Pick 5, which is offered twice daily at Monmouth, is a 50-cent wager with a takeout rate of just 15 percent. On Friday, the late Pick […]

The Paulick Report in conjunction with NYRA Bets is pleased to introduce a new weekly feature, NYRA Bets Presents Weekend Play At Saratoga. Each week, one of our editors will focus on a single wager – whether it’s win, place or show, exacta, trifecta or multi-race bet like the NYRA Bets Late Pick 5, which […]

A single bettor had a record payday Thursday when he became the only person to hit the Final Five Jackpot at Canterbury Park. The Star Tribune reports that the winning ticket, which was played online, was worth $312,130.90. The Final Five wager requires the horseplayer to pick the winners of the final five races on the card, […]

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 went unsolved for the 12th straight racing day at Gulfstream Park Thursday, producing a $275,764 carryover jackpot for Friday’s 2:15 p.m. Twilight card. Multiple tickets with five of six winners were each worth $1,803.30. The Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot is paid out only when there is a single unique ticket sold […]

A single Pick Six ticket on races 3 through 8 Thursday at Del Mar took down a nifty pot of $84,518 – collection both the day’s regular Pick Six pool as well as the “Jackpot” pool carried over from the track’s opening day Wednesday. The ticket, which cost $2,560 and was sold at The Meadowlands […]

A document outlining upcoming federal regulatory actions released Thursday by The White House indicates that modernized tax guidance relating to withholding and reporting of pari-mutuel winnings is nearing enactment. The “Current Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions” describes the Amendment of 3402(q) Regulations providing new rules for pari-mutuel wagering as in the “Final Rule […]

Jerry Bossert will be providing handicapping selections for each day of the 2017 Saratoga Thoroughbred meet. Racing writer and handicapper for the New York Daily News from 1994-2014, Bossert is a manager for Darby Development, owners of Monmouth Park, at their Favorites at Hillsborough off-track wagering facility in New Jersey. Follow Jerry on Twitter @JerryBossert […]

The 79th running of the Grade 1, $500,000 Diana Stakes is part of a magnificent opening weekend race card at historic Saratoga Race Course. Six horses are entered but three of them would be marquee horses on any race card. Leading that trio is multiple grade 1 stakes winner Lady Eli, coming off another gutty […]

Ellis Park, in conjunction with AmWager, is staging a live-money handicapping tournament that will send its top four finishers to the National Horseplayers Championship in Las Vegas, Feb. 9-11, 2018. The Bluegrass Tournament Presented by AmWager will be Sunday, Aug. 20, the same day that Ellis Park stages its pair of stakes for 2-year-olds. Entry […]

Racing analyst Tom Amello will present the first of two educational seminars dedicated to thoroughbred handicapping at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame on Tuesday, July 25 at 11 a.m. Amello’s “Handicapping 101” is aimed at introductory racegoers who are beginning to learn the sport and seek to understand its basic elements. […]