ARCADIA, Calif. -- Three winning Pick Six tickets worth $1.57 million each were sold Wednesday on races at Santa Anita Park.
The winning tickets were sold at off-track betting windows in New York, Kentucky and California.
In a Pick Six wager, bettors try to pick the winners of six races. If there aren't any winning tickets sold, the betting pool is carried over to another day.
Wednesday's Pick Six pool at Santa Anita was $7.3 million, which included a three-day carryover of $1.41 million, the track said.
Track officials said it's the largest Pick Six pool in North American racing history, breaking the record of $6.66 million at Santa Anita on Jan. 23, 1991, when there was a five-day carryover.
The racetrack didn't release names of the winning bettors.
The payout comes a year after the horse racing industry instituted measures to improve wagering security in response to a scandal involving Pick Six bets during the 2002 Breeders' Cup.
SANTA ANITA HANDICAP: Island Fashion will attempt what 40 other fillies have failed to do: beat the boys in the Santa Anita Handicap.
She'll take on eight males in the $1 million race tomorrow for older horses, making her the first filly to run in the event since Serena's Song finished seventh in 1996.
Island Fashion is coming off victories in back-to-back Grade 1 stakes races. Owner Jeff Nielsen and trainer Marcelo Polanco were looking for a major showcase for their gray filly, and decided the 67th Big 'Cap was it.
"The owner likes to compete, I like to compete, and the filly likes to compete," Polanco said.
With Kent Desormeaux aboard, Island Fashion is the fourth choice, at 10-1 odds, on the morning line for the 1 1/4-mile race.
She'll get a weight break at 115 pounds -- eight fewer than 6-5 favorite Pleasantly Perfect, the Breeders' Cup Classic winner who will carry Alex Solis.
Southern Image, the Sunshine Millions Classic winner, is second choice at 5-2. He'll carry 118 pounds and jockey Victor Espinoza.
"He can sit just off the pace or set the pace, whatever we need him to do," trainer Mike Machowsky said. "My only concern is lack of experience and having him run against Pleasantly Perfect."
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The winning tickets were sold at off-track betting windows in New York, Kentucky and California.
In a Pick Six wager, bettors try to pick the winners of six races. If there aren't any winning tickets sold, the betting pool is carried over to another day.
Wednesday's Pick Six pool at Santa Anita was $7.3 million, which included a three-day carryover of $1.41 million, the track said.
Track officials said it's the largest Pick Six pool in North American racing history, breaking the record of $6.66 million at Santa Anita on Jan. 23, 1991, when there was a five-day carryover.
The racetrack didn't release names of the winning bettors.
The payout comes a year after the horse racing industry instituted measures to improve wagering security in response to a scandal involving Pick Six bets during the 2002 Breeders' Cup.
SANTA ANITA HANDICAP: Island Fashion will attempt what 40 other fillies have failed to do: beat the boys in the Santa Anita Handicap.
She'll take on eight males in the $1 million race tomorrow for older horses, making her the first filly to run in the event since Serena's Song finished seventh in 1996.
Island Fashion is coming off victories in back-to-back Grade 1 stakes races. Owner Jeff Nielsen and trainer Marcelo Polanco were looking for a major showcase for their gray filly, and decided the 67th Big 'Cap was it.
"The owner likes to compete, I like to compete, and the filly likes to compete," Polanco said.
With Kent Desormeaux aboard, Island Fashion is the fourth choice, at 10-1 odds, on the morning line for the 1 1/4-mile race.
She'll get a weight break at 115 pounds -- eight fewer than 6-5 favorite Pleasantly Perfect, the Breeders' Cup Classic winner who will carry Alex Solis.
Southern Image, the Sunshine Millions Classic winner, is second choice at 5-2. He'll carry 118 pounds and jockey Victor Espinoza.
"He can sit just off the pace or set the pace, whatever we need him to do," trainer Mike Machowsky said. "My only concern is lack of experience and having him run against Pleasantly Perfect."
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