$1 million plus carryover for Pick 6 at Belmont, Wednesday

Tomorrow's Belmont card offers a Pick 6 with a carryover of more than $1.1 million (Wednesday June 15th, 2011).

The Belmont Park Pick 6 carryover pool is currently $1,130,718, definitely worth a little lottery-style ticket or two!!! 

TODAY: $1.5 MILLION Rainbow Six at Gulfstream!

With carryover at $1.3 mil, record payout guaranteed

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Anticipation is building at Gulfstream Park as the scheduled guaranteed payout of the Rainbow 6 jackpot on Saturday grows closer. As long as no one claims the $1.3 million-plus jackpot in the meantime, bettors will be scrambling to get a share of a bonanza that could grow as high as several million dollars.

The innovative 10-cent wager has required a bettor to be the only ticket-holder with a single winning combination on the last six races in order to claim the jackpot that has been growing since Feb. 17. On Saturday, the next to last day of the 2011 Gulfstream Park meeting, the entire pool is scheduled to be disbursed among all bettors with tickets including the winners of the last six races on the 12-race program..

The guaranteed payout of the entire pool may send bettors into somewhat of a quandary about how to bet the Rainbow 6. They will have to decide whether to avoid betting more than a single ticket on each combination or forego the chance of winning the whole jackpot and play multiple tickets in the hope of carving out a bigger share of the huge guaranteed payout.

The Rainbow 6 jackpot has been hit four times, including a $221,677 payout on Jan. 27, and the large evenly-matched fields in the six races on Saturday may make it possible for a single bettor to take down the whole jackpot. If not, the entire Rainbow 6 pool, including the $1.3 million-and-growing carryover, will be spread out to all betters holding tickets with all six winners in races 7-12.

Anticipating a jump in betting, starting Thursday Gulfstream’s pari-mutuel clerks will accept wagers on the Rainbow 6, which previously had been accepted only at self-bet terminals.

The Rainbow 6 will be kicked off in the seventh race, a seven-furlong race for $12,500 claiming maidens that drew a field of 12. A field of 12 $15,000-$20,000 claimers was entered for the eighth race, which will be run at five furlongs on turf. The ninth race, a maiden special weight race at six furlongs, will include the smallest field of the six races with 10 entrants. The final three races of the Rainbow 6, a mile allowance, a 1 1/16-mile allowance and a 1 1/8-mile maiden race for $20,000-$25,000 claimers, all attracted 12-horse fields and will all be run on turf.

Biggest Betting Payouts 2009 Horse Racing - Pick Six Carryovers +++

Over the next few weeks I will be posting a series entitled How to Cash Big Tickets at the Track, with chapters on Exactors, Triactors, Superfectas, Pick 3, Pick 4 and Pick 6. Most really large payouts are because of either or both of these 2 factors:

A) One or more longshots hit the board

and/or

B) There was a large carryover.

As B allows you a larger return for the same amount of risk, in 2010 I wil be focusing a lot on betting carryovers, and for those wanting to play along, use the Twitter.com Horse Racing Carryovers website to get alerts on the biggest pools out there!


Here are some of the top horse race wagering wins in 2009; SUCCESS in betting on horse races:

#1 - Saratoga Pick 6 - Saturday, August 8 - (4-3-8-6-3-12), 6 of 6 Paid $483,828.00, 5 of 6 Paid $3,840.00



#2 - Hollywood Park P6 - Mon, May 25 - (11/13/15-5/6-1-9-6-5/8), 6 of 6 Paid $294,018.40, 5 of 6 Paid $2,597.20


#3 - Meadowlands Pick Six Saturday, April 4 record $193,384 payout, five winning tickets (previous record Pick 6 payoff at the Meadowlands came in February 2007, when one winner took down the entire $131,071 pool.)


#4 - Saratoga Pick 6 Carryover - Sun, Aug 16 (7/8-8-1-9-7-3) - 6 of 6 Paid $119,797.00


#5 - Belmont Park Pick 6 - Wednesday, July 15 - (4-3-5-6-1-8), 6 of 6 Paid $114,340.00


#6 - Del Mar Pick 6 Sat, Aug 29 (3-10/13/14-10-9-4-8) - 6 of 6 Paid $97,622.8


#7 - Belmont Park Pick 6 - Saturday, July 9 - (8-3/4-9-7-1/9-2), 6 of 6 Paid $73,949.00


#8 - Golden Gate Pick 6 - Thurs, April 30 - (5-6-5-5-2-3/5), 6 Correct Paid $70,937.40


#9 - Hollywood Park Pick 6 - Sunday, May 3 - (7-2-7-1/3/4/6-5/8-12), 6 Cor Paid $70,362.20


#10 - Belmont Park Pick 6 - Sunday, May 3 - (2-2-9-8-7-6), 6 Correct Paid $67,782.00, 5 Correct Paid $7,473.00


Many happy returns!!!!


Here are some highlights from previous years:

2007

Monday July 3rd pick six at Hollywood Park, which attracted more money than any pick six in North American history, paid $576,040 to 13 ticketholders.


The V75 is a ten-cent pick seven wager in which bettors win by selecting the winning horse in seven races, with consolation prize money going to bettors who select five or six out of the seven. The V64 is a 20-cent pick six wager in which bettors win by picking six winners from six races. There are also consolation prizes for picking four and five winners out of six.

Both wagering options have been extremely popular in Europe, with average weekly pool sizes that are among the largest in the world: $11-million for the V75 and $2.5-million for the V64. Carryover pools have reached as high as $25-million. The record payout for the V75 is $4.8-million, while the largest payout for the V64 was $566,451.


2004

The biggest pick six in NYRA history ended with the first two tickets worth in excess of $1 million in the history of New York racing. Six consecutive double-digit winners conspired to eliminate all but those two tickets, each of which worth $1,120,287. (Posted 17JAN04)

The previous record pay out at NYRA was a $767,998 pick six return on April 9, 1990.