Woodbine Thoroughbred Season Finale – December 4th – Post 1pm

To our IdaBet valued customers, we hope everyone is gearing up for the holidays and took the time to enjoy Thanksgiving with your friends and family.

We wanted to remind you that on Sunday the curtain comes down on the 60th year of racing at the Toronto oval and will be back in spring 2017.  This weekend Woodbine will be boast a stakes-laden card with the Display and Valedictory Stakes with an exciting wagering menu with larger guaranteed early and late Pick 4 and 5 pools, and a mandatory JH5 payout on the last race on December 4th. Also, the T’bred Jackpot Hi5 carryover is almost $240K!

Woodbine Racetrack | Closing weekend 

Date: (December 3^rd-4^th, 2016)

Post Time 1.00 PM E.T.

 On December 3^rd & 4^th watch and wager with IdaBet.com on the final 2016 cards of racing with an exciting stakes-laden schedule, live from Woodbine Racetrack.

• As the curtain comes down on the 60^th year of racing at the Toronto oval, it is to date been a very successful and milestone year of racing at Woodbine.

• The Saturday card will again see two-year-olds in the Display Stakes, a $125,000 (Guaranteed) purse, and also at a distance of one mile and one sixteenth. Last years winner was New York based trainer Gary Contessa’s proud victory, who shipped in Don’t Be So Salty to win the Display Stakes.

• Always another popular highlight of the closing day card is the running of the Grade III Valedictory Stakes, at the distance of 1-3/4 miles for three-year-olds and up on the Tapeta surface. Last year, the Valedictory winner was won in a dominating and impressionfashion by Melmich. The former $20,000 claimer won by 10-1/4 lengths in a track record performance. Melmich was a finalist in voting for the Sovereign Award for Champion Older Male, awarded in April, and was a recent solid 4th place finisher in the Grade II $200,000 Marathon Stakes at Santa Anita (Breeders’ Cup weekend).

• On the wagering side, Woodbine will have larger guarantees ($100K early and late Pick 4, $50K early and $100K late Pick 5) for an impressive $350K in guranteed Pick 4 and 5 pools. Woodbine will also be offering 20-cent bet minimums on all Triactor, Superfecta, Pick 3 & Pick 4 pools that afternoon.

• Why not give the Jackpot Hi5 a go? Huge potential for big pool payouts, there will be a mandatory payout on the last race on December 4^th.

• New this year, and proving to be a successful addition to the track at Woodbine was the tapeta surface providing a consistent and safe track for handicappers, horses and horsemen.

• Watch and wager with IdaBet.com on closing weekend December 3^rd & 4^th for two afternoons of stakes filled excitement! Post times 1:00pm E.T.

We appreciate your support of Woodbine and wish you the best of racing luck & thank you for choosing IdaBet.com!