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The Stronach 5 will have a carryover of $97,891.79 Jan. 22 after there were no winning tickets in Friday s popular wager.
The Stronach 5, with an industry-low 12-percent takeout and featuring races from Laurel Park, Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Fields, started with a bang Friday when Step by Step won the opening leg and the eighth race at Laurel and returned $54.
That longshot was followed up by Katniss Kas ($17.20) winning Gulfstream s eighth race and the second leg of the Stronach 5 and Spanish d Oro ($20.20) winning Laurel s ninth race and third leg of the sequence.
The Stronach 5 moved to California for the last two legs. Bang for Your Bucks ($23.60) won Santa Anita s third race before Colavito ($9.20) took the final leg and third race from Golden Gate.
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Full, competitive fields and coast-to-coast racing in under an hour will be delivered by Friday s Stronach 5.
The popular wager that continually shows a strong return on investment and an industry-low 12-percent takeout will feature races from Laurel Park, Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita Park and Golden Gate Fields when it kicks off at 3:55 ET.
The Stronach 5 begins with Laurel s eighth race, a 5 ½-furlong claiming event for fillies and mares. Scamper Along, a 4-year-old filly who broke her maiden at Penn National, is the 5-2 morning-line favorite. Gulfstream s eighth race will serve as the second leg of the sequence. A wide-open, claiming event for fillies and mares at six furlongs brings together a field of 12 led by tepid 3-1 favorite Galt Jak. Laurel s ninth race, a maiden $10,000 claimer for 3-year-olds, serves as the third leg of the sequence. There s lots of options in the 12-horse
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There were 16 winning tickets in Friday s popular Stronach 5, each returning $6,382.70.
The largest payoff in the five-race sequence featuring races from Laurel Park, Santa Anita Park and Gulfstream Park and an industry-low 12-percent takeout was $9.20.
Friday s sequence kicked off with Wonderwall, a 3-year-old filly from the barn of leading trainer Claudio Gonzalez, winning Laurel s eighth race followed by Candygramformongo winning Laurel s ninth race.
The Stronach 5 moved to Santa Anita Park for its third race. Reddam Racing LLC s That Corey, a 3-year-old son of Square Eddie who finished second at Del Mar last time out, ran away from nine others on a mile turf course to break his maiden.
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Short prices resulted in 863 winning tickets in Friday s Stronach 5 with each ticket worth $196.30.
The Stronach 5 featured races from Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita Park and Laurel Park as well as an industry-low 12-percent takeout and two stakes races.
The sequence started with Laurel s eighth race and Belle Tapisserie ($7) winning off the claim for trainer Kieron Magee. The $2.50-1 Belle Tapisserie turned out to be the largest-priced winner of the day.
The $75,000 Janus, run as Gulfstream s ninth race and the second leg of the sequence, was won by 4-5 favorite Imprimis ($3.60), coming off a horrible trip in the Breeders Cup Turf Sprint (G1) in which he was stopped and steadied down the stretch.