Daylight Ahead Returns a Winner Sunday at Laurel; Rainbow 6, Late Pick 5, Super Hi-5 Carryovers for Friday
Daylight Ahead Returns a Winner Sunday at Laurel; Rainbow 6, Late Pick 5, Super Hi-5 Carryovers for Friday
Rainbow 6, Late Pick 5, Super Hi-5 Carryovers for Friday
Leading Rider McCarthy Posts Three-Win Afternoon
LAUREL, MD – Winners Circle Partners VIII homebred Daylight Ahead, racing for the first time since last July, caught even trainer Hugh McMahon off guard by rolling to a 2 ½-length upset at odds of 15-1 in Sunday’s co-featured fifth race at Laurel Park.
Daylight Ahead ($32), a 4-year-old daughter of Mineshaft, stalked pacesetter Anna May Our Queen through a half-mile before taking a three-length lead into the stretch and powering home to win in 1:05.51 for 5 ½ furlongs over a Bowl Game Turf Course rated good.
“It was a surprise, a very pleasant one. She’s conditioned to go long,” McMahon said. “I was doing long to try and get the speed out of her but she just wanted that lead and kept on going. I thought she’d need the race.”
Daylight Ahead’s first two career wins came on dirt last winter and spring, and she had raced twice before on turf before finishing fifth in an optional claiming allowance July 22 at Laurel going six furlongs on dirt in her final start of 2016. She had been training steadily for her return in Sunday’s $45,000 second-level optional claiming allowance for fillies and mares 3 and older.
“I thought there was always more to this filly. She’s inexperienced, she’s green, she needs to be seasoned with more races. She’s a bigger and better filly this year. She’s put on weight,” McMahon said. “She does have a lot of natural talent. I’ve just got to get out of the way. That’s my job.”
Rainbow 6, Late Pick 5, Super Hi-5 Carryovers for Friday
There will be carryovers in the 20-cent Rainbow 6, 50-cent Late Pick 5 and $1 Super Hi-5 when live racing returns to Laurel with a nine-race program Friday.
First race post time is 1:10 p.m.
No one selected all six winners in the Rainbow 6 on Sunday, growing the carryover jackpot to $6,640.85. Tickets with five of six winners returned $430.08.
The Late Pick 5, which offers an industry-low 12 percent takeout, will have a carryover of $3,213.78 after going unsolved Sunday. Tickets with four of five winners were worth $119.
There will be a carryover of $7,053.49 in the Super Hi-5 for Friday’s opener, a 5 ½-furlong main track claiming sprint for females 3 and up.
The Rainbow 6 will span Races 4-9 and includes all four grass events carded on the Fort Marcy and Kelso Turf Course layouts. The Late Pick 5 begins in Race 5.
Leading Rider McCarthy Posts Three-Win Afternoon
Trevor McCarthy added to his winter-spring meet-leading totals with a riding triple Sunday, aboard Whiskey Sour ($8.20) in the second race, Lady Terp ($5.80) in the sixth and Saida ($8.60) in the ninth. Jockeys Jevian Toledo and Jomar Torres and trainers McMahon and Scott Lake all had two wins apiece.
