ELMONT, N.Y. – Saturday’s card at Belmont Park will be bolstered by a Pick 6 carryover of $56,383 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Friday’s nine-race program.
The $1 Pick 6 returned $299 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly.
The sequence started off in Race 4 with Grade 1-placed Soldier Rising [No. 3, $3.20] taking an optional claimer under Jose Ortiz in his second start off a six-month layoff for trainer Christophe Clement. Race 5 saw Mexican Wonder Boy [No. 7, $5.40] win for a $40,000 tag sprinting six furlongs on the muddy main track after the race was taken off the turf. Heman Harkie engineered the winning ride for trainer Chandradat Goberdhan.
Veteran gelding Kumar [No. 3, $15] turned back two challenges down the stretch in Race 6 to land a $20,000 claiming victory under Jose Lezcano for trainer Gustavo Rodriguez with a rail-skimming trip. Galt [No. 2, $11.40] rode the rail down the backstretch in Race 7 before he was angled outside of Highly Respected down the lane to win the optional claimer for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott. Javier Castellano provided the winning ride.
Wicked Fast [No. 4, $57.50], with Jose Lezcano up, provided the biggest upset in the sequence in Race 8 for trainer Jorge Abreu. The allowance win was the second on the card for Lezcano.
With the carryover already confirmed, Causin’ Mayhem [No. 6, $4.10] went wire-to-wire as the even-money favorite in Race 9 to break his maiden with Manny Franco up for Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher.
Saturday’s Pick 6 will kick off in Race 5 [3:03 p.m. Eastern]. First post for the 10-race card, which features the Grade 2 Pennine Ridge in Race 9, is 1 p.m.
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