A PEEK AT THE PROGRAM–FRIDAY, JANUARY 12
Some insights into tonight’s racing program for our IdaBet players:
1ST RACE – (2) E L DARTSMYBOY is one we haven’t seen before, but has enough of small-track resume on both sides of border. Foes here far from vicious.
2ND RACE – (1) BROWN BRINNY is lass who’s been successfully ‘peeked’ in past. Continues to draw well and taken to handle these from a perceived pocket.
3RD RACE – (7) MORE THAN MANY was very solid number at level just below this, tries with these haven’t been poor. Gonna be price if she gets involved.
6TH RACE – (5) PRETTY IMAGE ended ’17 when she finished third to pair of much-better ladies than the sorority of tonight. Gazed in very light distaff derby.
10TH RACE – (5) WE THINK ALIKE returns off tidy central Jersey win and back in for tag. Been a tough-to-figure sort, but surmising good enough for these.
11TH RACE – (6) PEMBROKE WILDCAT has been receiving no love with the robo-draw. Can play here, provided gets numbers to chase or race falls apart.
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$2 +/- (thru Tue., Jan. 9) – 6 wins ($56.50)
from 18 ($36) selex (+$20.50, house money…what a concept)
highest-priced winner – CONSOLIDATOR ($15.60)
lowest-priced winner – OZONE BLUE CHIP ($4.60)
BY FRANK DRUCKER,
Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
Thank you for your continued support of Yonkers Raceway and IdaBet.com!
Jan 11, 2018
It only seems fitting that the first race on Friday night’s (Jan. 12) opening card of the 2018 season at Buffalo Raceway will feature three award winners from the 2017 campaign.
Yonkers Raceway’s Friday evening (Jan. 12th) Pick 5 wager starts with a double carryover of $15,113.25 as well as a $40,000 guaranteed pool.
The ‘instant’ guarantee is in conjunction with the U-S Trotting Association’s Strategic Wagering Program.
The Pick 5 is a 50-cent base wager comprising races 7 through 11 during every racing card. It has no consolation payoff, meaning if no one selects all five winners (as was the case Monday and Tuesday nights), the entire pool (minus takeout) moves to the next racing program.
BY FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
Happy Wagering and thank you for choosing IdaBet.com!
Meadowlands Racetrack news for our IdaBet players:
Friday, January 12th– 14 races, post time 6:35 pm. $ 125,000 guaranteed pick 5 carryover!
Saturday, January 13th– 14 races, post time 6:35 pm.
Fulton Quien Sabe Ranches’ He Is The Risingstar will look for a three peat when he faces six rivals in the $20,000 Barbra B Handicap on Sunday night at Los Alamitos. First post is 5:15 for the nine-race card.
Trained by Paul Jones, the 6-year-old gelding by Mr Jess Perry is perhaps the nation’s top 550-yard Quarter Horse. He’s won five stakes races at this distance since December of 2015, four of those at Los Alamitos. In addition to his 2016 and 2017 wins in the Barbra B, He Is The Risingstar also won the Paul Ford Handicap at 550 yards in 2015 and 2016. He makes his return to the Orange County oval after spending the bulk of 2017 racing in Texas. He Is The Risingstar won the TQHA 550-Yard Stakes at Retama Park on July 28 and in his last start he competed in the Refrigerator Handicap at 440 yards. Cesar De Alba will ride the Mercy Hinklins Horse Farm LLC-bred runner. He’ll be going after his sixth win in 15 career starts. .
Keith Craigmyle and Paul Lewis’ Thoroughbred sprinter Miss Loujean, a two-time winner at 870 yards at Los Alamitos since November 17, is among the six other runners in the Barbra B. Miss Loujean had a tremendous 2017 campaign, winning four races, running second in four more and third in one other race, all from only 10 starts. She’s won eight times in 43 career starts. Abigail Kawananakoa’s Racy High Roller, winner of the PCQHRA Breeders Futurity in 2016, will try this distance for the first time in his career when he starts from the outside post seven. Four other Quarter Horses will also race.
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