The Gulfstream Park West meet, held at Calder, is dark this Monday and Tuesday and will resume on Wednesday with eight races and first post of 1:15 p.m.
The carryover on the Rainbow 6 will be $14,224. It will be on races three through eight, with the sequence scheduled to start at 2:21 p.m.
On Sunday, there were five Rainbow 6 tickets with all six winners. Each ticket paid $3,121 on the 20-cent only bet.
Program numbers of the winning horses were 11-10-8-2-1-3. Two winners were favorites, and all other winners were 9-1 or lower.
The six races had 61 starters - adding to the difficulty of the wager.
Sunday's wagering on the Rainbow 6 was $33,449. Of that, GP West took out 20 percent, divided 56 percent among tickets with six winners and added 24 percent to the carryover.
Monday, October 15, 2018
Sunday, October 14, 2018
GP West Sunday Card: Ten Races,Two Carryovers
The Gulfstream Park West meet, held at Calder, will have a ten-race card on Sunday with first post at 1:15 p.m.
The first race has a Super Hi-5 carryover of $3,119.
The carryover on the Rainbow 6 is $6,228. It will be on races five through ten with the sequence scheduled to start at 3:26 p.m. The six races have 69 entrants, including Main Track Only and Also Eligible.
There are no stakes races on the card. The eighth and ninth race co-features are allowance optional claimers with $42,000 purses.
Here are highlights from Sunday's ten-race card:
* The Late Pick 5 (races six through ten) had a carryover of $20,288. That was a consequence of no tickets with all five winners on that bet on Friday's card.
Bettors on Saturday added $95,698 to the Late Pick 5 pool.
The payoff for five-of-five was $324.10 on the minimum 50 cent bet. There were an undetermined number of winning tickets.
Three of the winners were favorites. Odds on the other two winning horses were 6-1 and 5-2.
Program numbers on the winning horses were 6-2-5-2-3.
*On Friday there was just one winning ticket on the Rainbow 6, and it paid $23,222.80 on the 20-cent only bet.
Bettors put $25,965 into a new Rainbow 6 pool.
There were 55 tickets with all six winners, and each was paid $263.46.
GP West took out 20 percent of the Rainbow 6 bet, divided 56 percent among winning tickets and put 24 percent into the new carryover.
*It was the second Saturday and tenth day of the 40-day GP West meet that will end Nov. 25.
Total handle was $4,244,494. That was the second highest of the meet - trailing the $5,348,336 on the second Saturday of last year's GP West meet, total handle was $4,926,936.
All three Saturdays had ten races, with none taken off the turf.
The first race has a Super Hi-5 carryover of $3,119.
The carryover on the Rainbow 6 is $6,228. It will be on races five through ten with the sequence scheduled to start at 3:26 p.m. The six races have 69 entrants, including Main Track Only and Also Eligible.
There are no stakes races on the card. The eighth and ninth race co-features are allowance optional claimers with $42,000 purses.
Here are highlights from Sunday's ten-race card:
* The Late Pick 5 (races six through ten) had a carryover of $20,288. That was a consequence of no tickets with all five winners on that bet on Friday's card.
Bettors on Saturday added $95,698 to the Late Pick 5 pool.
The payoff for five-of-five was $324.10 on the minimum 50 cent bet. There were an undetermined number of winning tickets.
Three of the winners were favorites. Odds on the other two winning horses were 6-1 and 5-2.
Program numbers on the winning horses were 6-2-5-2-3.
*On Friday there was just one winning ticket on the Rainbow 6, and it paid $23,222.80 on the 20-cent only bet.
Bettors put $25,965 into a new Rainbow 6 pool.
There were 55 tickets with all six winners, and each was paid $263.46.
GP West took out 20 percent of the Rainbow 6 bet, divided 56 percent among winning tickets and put 24 percent into the new carryover.
*It was the second Saturday and tenth day of the 40-day GP West meet that will end Nov. 25.
Total handle was $4,244,494. That was the second highest of the meet - trailing the $5,348,336 on the second Saturday of last year's GP West meet, total handle was $4,926,936.
All three Saturdays had ten races, with none taken off the turf.
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Average Daily Handle on Races Run at Gulfstream Declined 1.8 Percent During 2018 Summer Meet
By Jim Freer and Barry Unterbrink
At this year's Gulfstream Park summer meet, average daily total handle on races run at Gulfstream was $5.51 million, according to HorseracingFLA's review of Equibase charts for Gulfstream races.
At this year's Gulfstream Park summer meet, average daily total handle on races run at Gulfstream was $5.51 million, according to HorseracingFLA's review of Equibase charts for Gulfstream races.
That was a decline of 1.8 percent from Gulfstream's summer meet record of $5.61 million set in 2017.
Total handle on races run at Gulfstream was $309 million for 56 days during the 2018
summer meet, compared with $292 million for 52 days during the 2017 summer meet.
EDITOR'S NOTE -- On Monday Oct. 8, Gulfstream sent out a news release stating that "total handle for the 2018 summer meet was $369 million compared to $345 million for 2017."
For some race meets, Gulfstream has announced total handle numbers that are the combination of bets made on races run at Gulfstream and of bets made on Latin American Racing Channel (LARC) races for which Gulfstream distributed the signal throughout North America.
On most days, Gulfstream or its sister track Laurel Park in Laurel, Md., carry at least several LARC races from thoroughbred tracks in Chile, Argentina or Uruguay. The Stronach Group owns Gulfstream, Laurel and four other thoroughbred tracks in the United States.
--Jim Freer
Our review of Equibase charts also shows these summer meet comparisons for races run at Gulfstream:
Average number of starters per race increased 2.6 percent from 8.13 for the 2017 meet to 8.34 for the 2018 summer meet.
Average daily purses grew 3.46 percent from $336.8 million for the summer 2017 meet to $349.0 million for this year's summer meet.
The average daily numbers are not altered due to the four less race days during the 2017 meet. Hurricane Irma forced closure of racing for seven straight days last September, and three make up days of racing were not enough to offset that.
The average daily numbers are not altered due to the four less race days during the 2017 meet. Hurricane Irma forced closure of racing for seven straight days last September, and three make up days of racing were not enough to offset that.
Gulfstream held its 2018 summer meet from July 1 to September 30th.
Gulfstream officials have told us several times that the handle-related numbers we have reported are accurate.
Gulfstream officials have told us several times that the handle-related numbers we have reported are accurate.
This summer's decrease in handle on races at Gulfstream can be attributed, in part, to rain and other weather-related conditions.
Gulfstream during this summer's 56-day meet took 65 races off the turf due to rain and other wet conditions. During its 2017 summer meet, over 52 race days, Gulfstream moved 47 races from turf dirt.
Those surface switches usually lead to several or more scratches, and result in lower handle than if a race stayed on turf.
Total handle (also known as all-sources handle) is the combination of all legal bets placed on a track's races.
It includes: live on-track handle; betting at other race tracks and other pari-mutuels; siumulcast wagering, and off track betting outlets; advance deposit wagering via computer and phone services; bets at sports books in Nevada and several other states; and bets at some off-shore sports books.
Total handle (also known as all-sources handle) is the combination of all legal bets placed on a track's races.
It includes: live on-track handle; betting at other race tracks and other pari-mutuels; siumulcast wagering, and off track betting outlets; advance deposit wagering via computer and phone services; bets at sports books in Nevada and several other states; and bets at some off-shore sports books.
Breakdowns of components of Gulfstream's handle for the two most recent summer meets are not readily available.
Friday, October 12, 2018
Saturday's G.P. West Card; Carryovers
Gulfstream Park plans a 10-race card on Saturday, with 94 starters listed to run at Calder Race Track in Miami Gardens, Fla. Five turf races (#2,4,6,8,10) are planned with a first post time of 1:15 PM ET.
In Friday’s action, 71 starters (15 scratches), ran under cloudy/firm conditions. Just one odds favorite (race 3), hit the win column with Heidi Ho winning by 4-1/2 lengths saddled by Edgard Zayas.
The surprise on the day was Si Te Vas (If you go in English), winning the last race at 28:1 odds. That upset the Late Pick 5, which paid $168.50 on 4 of 5, and sets up a nice $20,222 carryover for Saturday.
The surprise on the day was Si Te Vas (If you go in English), winning the last race at 28:1 odds. That upset the Late Pick 5, which paid $168.50 on 4 of 5, and sets up a nice $20,222 carryover for Saturday.
The Rainbow 6 wager paid out $23,222.80 to a single winning bettor. That last race had just 6 starters, and – being a two-year-old jaunt – perhaps the bettor went ALL on that last leg. The late Pick 4 paid $2,023 on 4 of 4.
Nonetheless, the safer bet Saturday will be the Pick 5 since you are playing with the losers money of Friday in the mix with the carryover vs. no carryover on the Rainbow 6.
Total handle was $3.75 million.
Good luck and thanks for reading.
Good luck and thanks for reading.
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