Trainer Magee Clinches Preakness Meet at Pimlico Title Friday; Rainbow 6 Carryover $6,065 for Stakes-Filled Saturday
Trainer Magee Clinches Preakness Meet at Pimlico Title Friday; Rainbow 6 Carryover $6,065 for Stakes-Filled Saturday
Rainbow 6 Carryover $6,065 for Stakes-Filled Saturday
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BALTIMORE – With two days remaining in the Preakness Meet at Pimlico, trainer Kieron Magee clinched his second consecutive Maryland meet title when Mothernaturespell won Friday’s fourth race at historic Pimlico Race Course.
Winner of the preceding winter-spring meet at Laurel Park, Magee is first with 14 wins at the current stand which wraps up Sunday, June 26. The only trainer in position to catch Magee, Jamie Ness, has 11 winners but no starters Saturday or Sunday.
“This is home. I love Laurel, but this is home for me so this means a little more,” Magee said. “I galloped horses here for 25 years and live 20 minutes from here. It’s home.”
Magee was second to Ness at last year’s Pimlico meet after capturing the 2014 title with 18 wins. He has been Maryland’s leading trainer for the past two years.
Favored at 3-2 in a field of seven fillies and mares, 4-year-old Mothernaturespell ($5) is co-owned by Ralph Gales Jr. and Magee. Disqualified from first June 2 at Pimlico, she has four wins from 16 lifetime starts.
“I’ve got some good owners and they’re not scared to put their horses in the right spots,” Magee said. “A lot of my owners are claiming owners and that helps. When those races come up I usually have one in there, and that helps tremendously.”
Magee has no horses entered Saturday but is running three on Sunday’s eight-race meet finale. Laurel Park opens its summer meet on Friday, July 1.
Rainbow 6 Carryover Swells to $6,065 for Stakes-Filled Saturday
There were no winners of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 on Friday, leaving a carryover jackpot of $6,065.69 for Saturday’s stakes-filled Maryland-Virginia Breeders’ Day program.
First race post time is 1:10 p.m.
No bettor correctly selected all six winners in the popular multi-race wager Friday. Tickets with five of six winners were worth $255.20.
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.
Saturday’s Rainbow 6 covers Races 4-9 and includes four of the five turf stakes worth $330,000 on the nine-race program – the $75,000 All Brandy Stakes in the fifth, $60,000 White Oak Farm Stakes in the sixth, $75,000 Find Stakes in the seventh and $60,000 Nellie Mae Cox in the eighth.
The first stakes is the $60,000 Edward P. Evans in Race 3.
Note: Trevor McCarthy posted a riding triple to move into a tie with Victor Carrasco atop the jockey standings at 26 wins. McCarthy was first with Stillburnin ($6.20) in the second race, Blu Moon Ace ($3.80) in the seventh and Frisky Magician ($) in the eighth. Jevian Toledo visited the winner’s circle twice, aboard She’s On a Roll ($7.80) in the first and I. E. Flash ($40.80) in the third. Carrasco’s lone win came with Dattt Melody ($42.80) in the sixth.
