BY FRANK DRUCKER,
Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS,
NY, Tuesday, November 29, 2016—Much has been written about the subject of
commingled pools, specifically involving Yonkers Raceway and its French
Connection.
Why, you may ask, should anyone on this side of the Atlantic care? Because if you’re one of those horseplayers who has dismissed a track—’The pools are too small’ and/or ‘I’m betting against myself’—the French are your copains (or buddies, chums, amigos).
Take
this past Sunday (Nov. 27th) as the latest example. With real-time
win and show pool commingling of the seven, French-hubbed, added-distance,
overflow fields trots, the tally sheet read as such…
…more
than a half-million dollars was added to the pot. European win-pool figures
ranged from $23,468 to $70,619, with the earlier
races getting the bulk of the attention.
The show pool range went from $16,874 to $45,002, again spiking in
the earlier events.
In other words, these pools are ‘thoroughbred-esque,’ enticing to
bettors of all dollar denominations.
This Sunday (Dec. 4), with its amended first post of 12 Noon (from
original 11:30 AM), the first seven races are ‘French,’ so have at it. An early
program file of these races accompanies, noting that changes are to be made
Wednesday morning (Nov. 30th).
