Rainbow 6 Carryover Swells to $62,695 for Sunday
Rainbow 6 Carryover Swells to $62,695 for Sunday
Limited View Blazes Half-Mile Saturday for March 17 Stakes
MJC Hosts Second Annual Students on Track Program Saturday
LAUREL, MD – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 saw its carryover jackpot swell to $62,695.08 for Sunday after going unsolved on Saturday’s nine-race program.
A total of $31,612 was wagered into the popular multi-race wager, adding to a carryover of $52,584 from Friday’s program. Multiple tickets with all six winners were each worth $583.76.
Sunday’s Rainbow 6 covers Races 4-9 highlighted by a $42,000 entry-level allowance for fillies and mares 4 and up going about 1 1/16 miles on the main track.
There will also be a carryover of $4,016.58 in the $1 Super Hi-5 for Sunday’s opener. First race post time is 12:30 p.m.
Limited View Blazes Half-Mile Saturday for March 17 Stakes
Multiple stakes-winning Maryland-bred 3-year-old filly Limited View breezed four furlongs in 45.40 seconds Saturday at Laurel, the fastest of 59 horses at the distance, in preparation for her next start March 17.
Trainer and co-owner John Salzman Jr. nominated the daughter of Freedom Child to both the $100,000 Beyond the Wire for sophomore fillies at one mile and the $75,000 Conniver at seven furlongs for state-bred females 3 and up, two of five stakes worth $450,000 in purses on the St. Patrick’s Day program.
It was the third work for Limited View since capturing the six-furlong Marshua Stakes Jan. 27 in her 3-year-old debut.
“She went really good. She does it so easy,” Salzman said. “We’re going to enter in both spots. I’m not all hyped up to run against older fillies and mares this older in the year but there’s some tough horses in the 3-year-old filly race, too. I’ll look at both races and talk to [jockey] Edgar [Prado] and see what he thinks. I’m leaning toward the 3-year-old fillies naturally but if something happens and theother race came up a little lighter, it’s not out of the question that I run her against the older fillies.”
Limited View won the Maryland Million Lassie and Maryland Juvenile Championship at 2 before ending her juvenile season finishing off the board in the Gin Talking Stakes Dec. 30.
MJC Hosts Second Annual Students on Track Program Saturday
The Maryland Jockey Club on Saturday hosted its second annual Students on Track program to introduce college students to all aspects of thoroughbred racing.
A total of 28 students from the University of Maryland, Goucher College, Equine Studies Institute, University of Findlay and Virginia Tech took part in the program, which ran from 9 a.m. top 1 p.m.
The program allowed currently enrolled college students the chance to watch morning workouts and interact with persons playing a vital role in a horse’s daily care, take part in a three-person panel discussion/question and answer session, and network with racing experts during the early live races.
This year’s panel was comprised of Dr. Charles Arensberg, veterinarian at the Fair Hill Training Center in Elkton, Md.; Jocelyn Brooks, chief of staff at prominent owner Sagamore Farm; and Jessica Hammond, program administrator for Beyond the Wire, the Maryland racing community’s aftercare initiative.
“This was a wonderful opportunity to meet such a diverse group of driven individuals who have shown a passion for the sport and the industry,” Arensberg said. “I look forward to watching their careers develop and mentoring them as young professionals.”
“The Maryland racing industry is thriving and generating interest and this program is an example of that,” Hammond said. “It was exciting to see so many students attend, ask thoughtful questions and even take notes.”
Added Brooks: “Programs like Students on Track are so important to the health and future of the horse racing industry.”
Notes: Meet-leading jockey Jorge Vargas Jr. added two winners with Phil’s Cocktail ($12.20) in the second race and Oldfashioned Club ($4) in the fifth. J.D. Acosta also won twice aboard Brighton Lane ($7.20) in the sixth and Royal Crusader ($8.80) in the eighth, and Sheldon Russell doubled on Delta Outlaw ($4.40) in the seventh and Presenter ($7.20) in the ninth.
Clerk of Scales Frank Saumell reported jockeys Elvis Trujillo and Steve Hamilton were taken to Howard County Hospital for observation following a three-horse spill near the eighth pole in Race 8. Jockey Edwin Gonzalez, whose mount, Gato Dolce, broke down and caused the chain reaction spill, escaped serious injury.
