Horseplayers

Professional handicapper and owner of PastTheWire.com Jonathan Stettin won the inaugural Handicapping for Horses Tournament this past August in Saratoga Springs, New York and donated his prize money to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance. The prize money will be presented to the TAA during the Jan. 24 card at Gulfstream Park. The tournament, which lasted the […]

For the 13th consecutive racing day, Santa Anita’s popular 20 cent Single Ticket Rainbow Pick Six Jackpot remained elusive on Monday, resulting in a Jackpot carryover into Friday of $600,551. Although there was no single ticket winner, there were five consolation tickets with six winners, with each ticket returning $19,976.80. With $557,743 carried over from Sunday, […]

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool for Thursday’s program at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., will be guaranteed at $4 million. The popular multi-race wager went unsolved for the 38th consecutive racing day of the 2019-’20 Championship Meet at Gulfstream Monday, when multiple tickets with all six winners were each worth $1,421.20. The Rainbow […]

Oaklawn, which made history last year when it split the $1 million Rebel Stakes (G2) into two $750,000 divisions, is kicking off its 2020 season with another significant stakes split. On Saturday, Jan. 25 (the day after the live meet begins), Oaklawn will split the 31st running of the $100,000 Fifth Season into two $100,000 […]

Horseplayers will get the chance to take a shot at the Black Gold 5 which now carries a pool of $315,146 going into special live Monday racing at Fair Grounds Racecourse. The jackpot is paid out when there is only a single winning ticket. The sequence kicks off in race 5 with an estimated post time of 2:26 […]

For the 12th consecutive racing day, Santa Anita’s popular 20 cent Single Ticket Rainbow Pick 6 Jackpot proved elusive, resulting in a Jackpot carryover of $557,743 into a special eight-race Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday program on Monday. With a carryover from Saturday of $518,025 helping to generate $173,493 in new Jackpot handle today, […]

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $4 million for Monday’s special Martin Luther King Jr. Day program at Gulfstream Park. (First-race post: 12:35 p.m.) The popular multi-race wager went unsolved for the 37th consecutive racing day of the 2019-2020 Championship Meet at Gulfstream Friday, when multiple tickets with all six […]

The New York path to the Kentucky Derby trail continues on February 1 at the Big A with the 140th renewal of the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers, which offers 10-4-2-1 qualifying points to the top-four finishers. The Saturday, February 1 card will also feature the return of the popular Cross Country Pick 5, which in […]

Handicapper Evan Freedman was a “day of” entrant into the first-ever National Horseplayers Championship qualifier at Hialeah Park on Sunday January 12. When the official sign lit up on the final race of the tournament at Gulfstream Park, Freedman’s “all in” wager on 5-1 winner Tricky Magician secured his victory over 54 competitors, including two-time […]

Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., has announced it will guarantee $1 million in Saturday’s 20 cent Rainbow Pick 6 Jackpot, which will be comprised of races four through nine.  With five stakes highlighting the nine-race California-Cup program, four of which will be included in the Rainbow 6, fans will have plenty of lucrative betting […]