$14K Pick 5 carryover,
40K guarantee on tap Saturday
By Mark Ratzky, publicity – Cal Expo Harness
There will be a Pick 5
carryover of $14,190 on Saturday’s Cal Expo card with a guaranteed gross pool
of $40,000, all thanks to a $115 winner and a nose photo in the Pick 5 sequence
last Sunday.
The Pick 5 is a 50-cent wager
that features a reduced 16 percent takeout rate and covers the first five races
on the program. There is a 25 percent minor pool payout.
Last Sunday evening’s Pick 5
started with Tour Guide getting her first snapshot of the year for Steve and
Vickie Desomer while returning $11 to her backers.
Gentle Dragon proceeded to
blow up the toteboard in the second race by posting that 56-1 shocker. Owned by
Tereso Orantes, trained by Lester Smith and handled by David Siegel, the latter
mare had missed the board in her first four appearances on the year, but turned
things around in a big way.
The upsets continued in the
third race as the classy 9-year-old trotting veteran Franks Best hung a nose
decision on 2-5 favorite Winsom Kelly, who needed another stride to make his
closing kick count.
Juntique continued the trend
in the fourth stanza at $24 for owner/trainer Robert Bell and pilot Mike
Jarvis, and nobody had all five winners connected despite the fact that the 3-5
choice My Little Susie proved best in the fifth race Sire Stakes for the
3-year-old trotters.
In addition to the Pick 5,
there is also a reduced 16 percent takeout rate offered on the 20-cent Pick 4,
which comes with a $40,000 guaranteed gross pool on Saturdays and $25,000 on
Sundays.
