Hall of Famer Prado Earns 6,900th Career Win
Hall of Famer Prado Earns 6,900th Career Win
Rainbow 6, Pick 5, Super Hi-5 Carryovers for Friday’s Program
BALTIMORE – Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado picked up his 6,900th career victory when he came from off the pace to upset Thursday’s second race at historic Pimlico Race Course.
Prado, thoroughbred racing’s winningest active jockey with the retirement this week of all-time leader Russell Baze, took the 1 1/16-mile turf claiming event with Rob Ry Farm and Jayne Marie Slysz’s Dance With Gio ($19.20). Trained by Dove Houghton, the 7-year-old New Jersey-bred mare won by a half-length.
Already one of just 17 jockeys to win 6,000 or more races, he is closing in on an even more elite group. Only seven riders have reached the 7,000 mark, topped by Baze’s 12,842.
“Sixty-nine hundred, it feels good. Hopefully I can continue to be blessed with this career that I have been having,” said Prado, who turned 49 on Sunday. “It’s a gift from God.”
Rainbow 6, Pick 5, Super Hi-5 Carryovers for Friday’s Program
There will be carryovers in the 20-cent Rainbow 6, 50-cent Pick 5 and $1 Super Hi-5 wagers greeting bettors for Friday’s eight-race program.
First race post time is 1:10 p.m.
No one put together the correct six-race sequence in the Rainbow 6 on Thursday, creating a carryover jackpot of $648.05. Tickets with four of six winners returned $138.86.
The Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot is only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day’s pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
Friday’s Rainbow 6 covers Races 3-8 and includes a $40,000 maiden special weight for 3-year-old fillies going six furlongs on the main track in Race 6. Tizsomethingroyal, a $420,000 2-year-old in training purchase last April, is the 5-2 program favorite from outside post 9.
There will also be a carryover of $4,720.91 in the Pick 5, offering an industry-low 12 percent takeout, which spans Races 4-8. Tickets with four of five winners Thursday returned $524.50.
A carryover of $1,438.13 will be available in the Super Hi-5 for Friday’s opener.
Note: Jockey Trevor McCarthy posted a riding triple Thursday, winning with Souper True ($13.20) in the third race, Elusive Joni ($18.40) in the fifth and Desert Princess ($14.60) in the seventh.
