By Mark Ratzky, publicity –
Cal Expo Harness
A $5,100 Carryover in the
Pick 6 with a $10,000-guaranteed pool highlights Friday night's Cal Expo
program.
The Pick 6 will cover races 5
through 10 and first post for the Watch and Wager LLC program is 6:40 p.m.
There are also two wagers
offered each night that come with a reduced 16 percent takeout rate - the
50-cent Pick 5 on the first five races and the 20-cent Pick 4.
The Pick 4 features a
$50,000-guaranteed gross pool on Saturdays and $30,000 on Fridays.
Looking ahead to the Saturday
program there will be some important prep races for next week's Lloyd Arnold
Pace and Stan Bergstein Trot.
The Open Trot will find track
record holder Pridecrest getting much of the attention, while I'm An Athlete
and Allmyx'sliventexas have top billing in the Open Pace.
There
will also be a Filly and Mare Open which spotlights the razor-sharp
Delightfully Wild squaring off against a solid cast.
Remillard, Cruisin For
You delight longshot players
Richard Remillard lit up the
toteboard last weekend with Cruisin For You, guiding the Lester Smith-trained
pacer to a three-quarter length victory while rewarding his backers to a $67
payoff.
The Juan Pacheco colobearer
had actually won two back as the 4-5 favorite, but was coming off a poor effort
and just wasn’t getting any love at the windows this time around.
Remillard is a 62-year-old
native of Winnipget Manitoba is about to complete his first season of
competition at Cal Expo, noting “It’s been nice to get away from the cold.”
Richard fell in love with the
trotters and pacers when introduced to harness racing by his brother-in-law as
a teenager.
He has spent most of his time
over the last 40 years dividing his time between his day job as a meat cutter
and market manager while maintaining a ranch in Winnipeg.
“It was only two years ago
that I decided to concentrate solely on the horses,” he explained. “My partner
Val recently retired and after talking to Quentin Schneider, we decided to come
down to California and give it a try before we get too old.”
