Already offering a carryover of $2,516.76, Wednesday s (Jan. 27) Pick-6 pool at Yonkers Raceway is now guaranteed at $5,000.
The guarantee is being offered as part of the United States Trotting Association’s Strategic Wagering Program. Free past performances for the sequence, courtesy of TrackMaster, are available here.
Yonkers Raceway s Pick-6 has a takeout rate of 20 per cent, as do the track s nightly Pick-4 and Pick-5 wagers.
Tonight’s 10-race card at Yonkers begins at 7:15 p.m., with the Pick 6 kicking off in the third race.
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The results of the “Clenbuterol plasma concentrations after therapeutic administration in fit Standardbred horses: threshold recommendations” study published online after peer review in
Comparative Exercise Physiology clearly demonstrate and recommend the need for different withdrawal times and threshold levels for harness racing than the current standards that exist for Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racing.
The goal of this study was to identify a withdrawal time guideline for use of clenbuterol at dose levels approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in harness racing, where horses may start (race) at seven-day intervals.
Three members of the Harness Racing Medication Collaborative Kenneth McKeever, PhD FACSM; George Maylin, DVM, MS, PhD; and Clara Fenger DVM, PhD, DACVIM collaborated on the study.
Harness racing in Nevada is one step closer as the Nye County Commission recently approved conducting horse racing by a unanimous 5-0 vote.
The approval on Wednesday (Jan. 20) related to zoning issues of a Quarter Horse racetrack in Pahrump, Nev. a 60-mile drive west from Las Vegas that has been serving as a training center since 1995. The track is approved for non-betting races only.
T.J. Bohannon, president of the Nevada Standardbred Association (NVSA), was a significant contributor during open community comment and spoke to the integrity and safety of horse racing and compliance from governing bodies such as the United States Trotting Association and the American Quarter Horse Association. He also spoke of the economics related to having horse racing with a focus on jobs, education and the multi-stream revenue sources.
Rockinscience, fresh from a sparkling victory for driver/trainer Luke Plano, takes on a solid cast in Saturday night’s featured $9,700 Robert Gordon Pace at Cal Expo.
Watch and Wager LLC will present 13 races with first post set for 4:55 p.m. and the main event is slotted as the eighth contest on the evening.
There are several major contenders in the Gordon line-up, with Rockinscience likely to have his share of backers as he goes for the hat trick this weekend. The four-year-old son of Rockin Image carries the banner of Nikki Hudson and Dave Haness.
After taking the measure of a softer group here on January 10, the bay performer came back last week and streaked home in :27.1 to make it two in a row while stopping the timer in 1:52.2, shaving two full seconds off his lifetime mark.
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