All tracks pay out Wednesday's giant exotic pools as is

Even though the official Equibase chart for race 4 on Wednesday at Churchill Downs does not show a Super High 5 payout, the Louisville, Ky., track confirmed Thursday morning that the track paid out the pool "as is" at about 5 p.m. EST Wednesday.

Churchill Downs handled $751,000 on the Super High 5, a historic total given that the track handled $967,598 on the bet type for this year’s Kentucky Derby and $118,698 on the Kentucky Oaks. Going into Wednesday’s card, Churchill had handled only $424,426 on the Super High 5 across its 10 dates at the current fall meeting.

According to the results page on TwinSpires, the account wagering platform owned by Churchill Downs Inc., the race 4 Super High 5 paid $388.34 for a $1 bet. That's a decent premium on the $128.50 superfecta considering it was only a seven-horse field, with only three horses available for the fifth spot after the superfecta. The $1 trifecta paid $61.40.

The Super High 5 at Churchill was one of several super exotic pools with aberrational totals Wednesday, including a trio of superfectas at Monticello Raceway and The Meadows totaling more than $900,000 and a $359,297 superfecta at Finger Lakes.

The two things all the wagers had in common is that they came through FanDuel Racing and involved liberal use of the "all" button in each position of the wagers.

"Earlier (Wednesday), FanDuel Racing identified technical issues and potential fraud related to wagering pools and took the appropriate steps to stop wagering via its platform," a FanDuel spokesperson said. "This issue is no longer ongoing, and wagering has resumed. The company is undertaking a full review of this matter and will be cooperating with regulatory authorities."

FanDuel had been seeking to reprice each of the pools, but none of the host tracks took that action Wednesday, though meetings were scheduled for Thursday to address myriad concerns raised by Wednesday's action.

At The Meadows, a Penn National-owned harness track near Pittsburgh, none of the first three superfecta pools eclipsed $10,000, but the race 4 pool handled $119,682 with race 5 handling $1,082,884. Things returned to “normal” in races 6, 7 and 8 with pools in the $10,000-$20,000 range.

Things were even more robust at Monticello in New York, where the first two superfecta pools were around $10,000 before race 3 took in $66,516 then back to $12k-$23k in races 4 and 5 before an incredible $1,450,600 came in on race 6 and $950,029 in race 7.

Finger Lakes, a Delaware North-owned racino in Western New York, also got an apparent bump in its race 5 superfecta pool. Races 1, 2, and 4 handled about $45,000 total in that pool, and race 5 did $359,297 in a 7-horse field with race 6 doing $113,563. That race produced $77.50 winner keying a $564.50 exacta for a dollar with the superfecta only paying $3,238.