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5 THINGS ABOUT YESTERDAY’S RACING…

  1. Somebody hit the Jackpot Pick 5 at Laurel Park yesterday for a handsome payout of $87,835.35 — not bad for a day’s work!  The sequence included 3.20-1 Graced, 4.90-1 Coco Punch, 10.20-1 Student Pilot, .90-1 Balance of Power, and 4.90-1 Laysh Laysh Laysh.  Perhaps the key was a couple of short-priced but dubious favorites, including 3-5 Distorted Dream in the seventh, a soft maiden claiming affair…
  2. Nine different trainers and nine different riders had pictures taken at Laurel yesterday…
  3. Well, looky here — last night we tweeted the following about the seventh race from Charles Town: “Tim Grams’ Only Simon lightly raced and enters off 2 good tries, right to improve at 9-2.”  Only Simon won and paid $11.60 — blind squirrel, meet nut!  And, by the way, that’s as good a reason as any to follow us on Twitter @TheRacingBiz…
  4. Three wins on the Charles Town evening for Jose Montano, who took the second, eighth, and ninth.  He’s tied for third in the colony with 17 wins to date, though well behind leader J.D. Acosta’s 27.  Trainer Ronney Brown registered two wins on the evening and now has a meet-leading 26, six more than Jeff Runco, though Runco leads in earnings…
  5. Here’s something you don’t see everyday: Todd Pletcher starting a horse at Penn National.  Last night, he sent out Supermonic, a three year-old son of Latent Heat, to break his maiden, which he did by 2 1/2 lengths at 7-10 odds.  Clinton Potts had the mount, one of two winners for him last night; Angel Rodriguez also had two wins, and he ranks third among Penn National jocks, with 19 triumphs in 2014…

AND 3 ABOUT TODAY’S…

  1. The eighth at Laurel is a nice optional claimer/four-other-than allowance going seven furlongs.  The compact group includes four horses — Cease, Broad Rule, Praetereo, and Bet the Power — that have won more than $300,000.  Smash and Grab has won over $200,000 in a 21-race career, while Perilous Indian, the pauper of the group, has won $138,000 in 19 starts but enters off a win in three-other-than company, the only runner entering off a victory…
  2. Bettors take note: Charles Town is offering four races with full starting gates (of 10) tonight and a couple of others that’ll go with nine.  And, though the fields generally aren’t as big, the track has carded a maiden special weight and three allowance races for the evening…
  3. Back in January, we flagged Citi’s Barometer, who’d won a claiming race at Penn National by 14 (!) lengths.  He ran next on January 29 against state-bred allowance foes, finishing second while well clear of the rest.  Off since then, he is slated to return tonight, again in allowance company; this time, he’s 9-5 on the morning line….

(Featured image by Laurie Asseo.)