Horseplayers will have an array of special wagering options this weekend coinciding with the first-ever California Crown Day on Saturday. Among the special added wagers are an All-Stakes Pick 5 on Saturday, a pair of two-day All-Stakes Daily Doubles, a two-day All-Stakes Pick 4 and two day All-Stakes Pick 6 linking stakes races on Saturday and Sunday. Each of the special wagers features a player-friendly 15 percent takeout rate.
The two-day, All-Stakes Daily Doubles are $5 minimum wagers. The first combines Saturday’s GII, $750,000 California Crown Eddie D with Sunday’s GII Santa Anita Sprint Championship. The second combines Saturday’s GI, $1 million California Crown with Sunday’s GII Zenyatta Stakes.
On California Crown Day Saturday, the All-Stakes Pick 5 consists of the Unzip Me (race 5), California Crown John Henry (race 7), California Crown Eddie D (race 8), California Crown (race 9) and City of Hope Mile (race 10).
The two-day, All Stakes Pick 6 is a $1 minimum wager. It includes Saturday’s Unzip Me, City of Hope Mile, California Crown John Henry Turf, California Crown Eddie D and California Crown with Sunday’s Santa Anita Sprint Championship and Zenyatta Stakes.
The two-day All Stakes Pick 4 is a $2 minimum wager. It comprises of the California Crown John Henry Turf and California Crown with Sunday’s Santa Anita Sprint Championship and Zenyatta.
GULFSTREAM, SANTA ANITA RETURN COAST-TO-COAST PICK 5
The popular $1 Coast-to-Coast Pick 5 featuring a player-friendly 15 percent takeout returns Saturday. The wager, which combines races from Santa Anita and Gulfstream Park, will be offered every Saturday and Sunday during Santa Anita’s Autumn Meet, which concludes Oct. 27. Saturday’s Coast-to-Coast Pick 5 starts at 2:08 p.m. PT with the ninth race from Gulfstream and follows with Gulfstream Race 11. The sequence also includes the California Crown John Henry Turf presented by 1/ST Bet, California Crown Eddie D and City of Hope Mile from Santa Anita.
$2 PICK SIX RETURNS WITH OPENING DAY FRIDAY
Santa Anita’s pick 6 will return this meeting to a $2 base minimum wager, which for decades was the staple of the track’s signature exotic wager. The pick 6 will be final 6 races on the card daily and challenges horseplayers to pick the winners of all 6 races. The $2 base replaces a short-lived experiment with a $1 base that failed to produce carryovers with regularity. Expect larger daily payouts and more frequent carryovers at the $2 level.
TRIO OF TOURNAMENTS FILL OPENING WEEKEND
Handicapping tournament players have daily options in store for Santa Anita. Friday's card offers a $300 California Crown Betting Challenge feeder. The $6,000 California Crown Betting Challenge highlights the weekend on Saturday. And Sunday's finale will be the $1,000 Breeders' Cup Betting Challenge Super Low Ratio Qualifier. For more details and to sign up, visit xpressbet.com/tournaments.
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