Gulfstream Park West (GPW) plans an 8-race card Sunday, with a first post of 1:00 PM. Last post time is near 4:35 PM.
In
Saturday's racing action, 9 races were run, and again, it was fairly
normal as 3 favorites entered the winners circle. ho-hum with the
winners odds-wise.
Jenna Dawn, at 26:1, won by
1-1/2 lenghts in the 4th race, which dwindled down the Rainbow 6 as
just 5 of 6 won the published $449.82 payoff.
Here are the payoffs on the Friday racing card:
Late Pick 4, $1,545.15
Late Pick 5, $3,012.75
Late Pick 5 consolation, 4 of 5 paid: $19.65 Rainbow 6, $449.82 paid to 50 bettors.
The
total pool on the Rainbow 6 was $39,979 as interest will be low here
until the carryover reaches - perhaps - $100,000. Sunday's carryover is $29,897, an increase of $9,591 from Saturday. It kicks off in race 3 at approx. 2:00 PM.
The Super Hi-5 wager also carrys over $2,283. This wager is a $1.00 minimum bet to correctly pick the first 5 finishers in order. Not an easy handicap.
Good Luck!
Gulfstream Park West (GPW) plans an 8-race card Friday, with a first post of 1:00 PM
at the Miami Gardens Track, on the Calder Race Track and Casino
property.
All races today are either maiden claiming, claiming.
allowance optional claiming, or maiden special weight. Last post time is
4:43 PM and all the racing dates on this meet ending Nov. 24th will have 1:00 PM post times.
Four 2 year-old races are planned in
races 1,2,3, and 5. No stakes races today. Just a 15% chance of rain is
expected during racing hours per the Weather Channel.
Here are the payoffs on the Thursday racing card, where 59 starters ran 8 races.
Late Pick 4, $1,065.65
Late Pick 5, $3,841.65
Late Pick 5 consolation, 4 of 5 paid: $42.50
Rainbow 6, $1,597.02 (5 of 6)
Afrolina, at 27:1 was the outlier in
race 3’s two year-old run, which no doubt was the chief reason no one
had the Rainbow 6 wager figured out. Hector Berrios rode the winner in
1:28.55 in the 7 furlong dirt race. Five of 6 on the Rainbow 6 paid the
$1,597.02 to 11 winners.
The total pool on the Rainbow 6 was a
lowly $31,386, as interest will be low here until the carryover reaches –
perhaps – $100,000.
Today’s carryover is $12,296. It starts in race 3 at approx. 2:00 PM.
The Super Hi-5 wager carryover will be $1,729 in race 1 if 7 or more starters leave the gate.
Good Luck!
By Jim Freer
Welcome to South Florida thoroughbred racing's annual "eight miles west" shift for October and November.
Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach ended its summer racing meet on Sunday Sept. 29th. This week, we will have meet-ending stories on the racing and wagering there.
The Gulfstream Park West meet, at Calder in Miami Gardens, will open on Wednesday, October
2nd.
First post will be at 1:00 p.m for an eight-race card on opening day.
The 40-day meet will host racing Wednesdays through Sundays ending Nov. 24th.
GP West History
This is the sixth straight year for the GP West meet. Since its start in 2014 has been held at the Calder Race Course track and stables. The contract for the GP West meet extends through 2020.
Gulfstream in Hallandale Beacy is owned by the Stronach Group, while Calder is owned by publicly-traded Churchill Downs Inc. (CDI). CDI signed the lease after they raced head-to-head on weekends for 12 months from mid 2013 to mid 2014 during a dispute over racing dates.
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Gulfstream's average daily handle proved to be about three times larger than Calder's handle.
Calder and CDI accepted the lease deal, to serve both the Miami & Fort Lauderdale / Hollywood markets.
One issue was the Florida law that requires a pari-mutuel to have at least 40 performances per year to keep their casino license. The Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering determine that the lease enabled Calder to meet that casino requirement.
This year Calder opened a jai-alai fronton.
But Calder, under terms of its Gulfstaesm lease, is still putting 10-percent of net slot machine revenues into race purses at Gulfstream-sponsored meets.
CDI has indicated that it does not plan to extend the Gulfstream lease beyond 2020 and that it does not desire thoroughbred racing at Calder after 2020.
The Stronach Group owns Palm Meadows training center in Boynton Beach, Fla. Palm Meadows is approximately 50 miles North of Gulfstream.
Gulfstream Park will run it’s last
races of the Summer Meet Sunday. It will be race day 54 on the meet that
started July 1st.
This Wednesday, October 2, live racing resumes at
Gulfstream Park West, on the Calder Race Course and Casino property
located in Miami Gardens, about 8 miles West of Gulfstream Park.
Sunday’s race card has 11 races listed, no stakes, and a 1:15 PM first
post.
As reported
yesterday, the Rainbow 6 wager was cashed Friday as a Jackpot win for one lucky
bettor. That reset the carryover to zero on Saturday’s races. The third
leg of the Florida Sires Stakes was run Saturday, with $75,000,
$150,000, and $400,000 purses in the 7 stakes races. 
Three favorites won their stakes races, and a pair of 17:1 and 20:1 winners in two stakes led to a nice Pick 5 payoff.
Marshall Eddies (20:1) won the Mr. Steele stakes by a half-length over Grand Journey in the 10th, and Great Sister Diane (17.6:1) won by 1-1/4 lengths in the 12th race – Monroes Stakes; Hogan’s Holiday the favorite finished a distant 9th.
Here are the late race wagering payoff’s:
Late Pick 4 paid: $672.40
Late Pick 5 paid: $25,670.05
Late Pick 5 (4 of 5); paid $112.85
Rainbow 6: $901.86 paid to 67 correct tickets. *Note:
the Rainbow 6 was paid on a 5 of 6 basis, since no bettor had the
correct wager on all six races. Race 6 kicks off the Rainbow 6 Sunday
with a 4:00 p.m. post time. The carryover is $26,090.
Sunday’s racing is under a mandatory
payout on the Late Pick 4, Pick 5, Rainbow 6 and Super Hi-5 wagers. The
pools minus track takeout, plus any carryover coming into Sunday will be
paid to the correct tickets winning the wager.
Stay tuned to Horse Racing FLA this next week as we transition over the Gulfstream West race track reporting.
Thanks for reading !
