How to bet Wednesday's Pick 4 carryover at Canterbury Park

One of the great exotic bets being offered by Santa Anita Park this season is the Coast to Coast Pick 5, which will be on the wagering menu every Saturday and Sunday throughout the meet through April 7. The bet gives horseplayers a chance to handicap some of the weekend's top races from two elite racetracks and make a big score with a low takeout…

ARCADIA - Even as sports gambling expands, there's still no event each year more tantalizing to bettors than the Breeders' Cup thoroughbred races. Big, competitive fields offer enticing odds on star horses in seven-figure parimutuel pools. Backing the right combination of horses in any of the dozens of "exotic" wagers on the program can turn a few…

Canterbury Park will celebrate the Minnesota breeding and horse racing industry on Saturday, Sept. 9 with the 30th rendition of the Minnesota Festival of Champions, a 10-race program restricted to horses bred in Minnesota. Six of the races are stakes with purses totaling $500000. In all, 76 horses were entered. The first race is scheduled to be run…

Summer is a time for the marquee tracks like Saratoga and Del Mar. However, many other tracks across the country are running during the summer months. Canterbury Park in Shakopee, MN is among them. Saturday's card features 4 stakes races including the Minnesota Oaks and Derby. The track also boasts an industry low takeout in the pick 4 and pick…

Saratoga Scenes-Bear Oak (Eric Soderquist) NYRA Press Office SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) will host the Whitney 2-Day Pick 6, a special two-day all-stakes wager, kicking off with the Grade 2, $500000 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame on Friday's card and concluding with five races on Saturday's…

Jay Lietzau is in his third season as the Star Tribune's horse racing handicapper. Look for his picks - and Canterbury Park results - here and in the print edition of the newspaper. Canterbury Park kicks off its 18th season Saturday and if you enjoy a beautiful Minnesota outdoor event, along with the opportunity to make some serious coin, then…

Canterbury Park in Shakopee, MN is back. With it comes the return of the industry low pick 4 and pick 5 wagers. The opening card features 2 stakes races. One of the separators that makes Canterbury such a great place for bettors is their commitment to pushing the envelope when it comes to wagering options for fans. For the last several seasons…

Horseshoe Indianapolis opens its seven-month meeting on Tuesday, and the Indiana track has made a welcome change to its wagering menu by eliminating the Jackpot Pick 6 and adding a second Pick 5. The Pick 5 features 11.99 percent takeout and is on the first and last five Thoroughbred races each day. For opening day, that means the sequences start…

This week's "Bet With the Best" podcast helps illustrate how the glass is half full. by Dean Towers Chris Larmey is a member of the National Handicapping Hall of Fame and he started a new horse racing podcast a few weeks ago called "Bet With the Best." Rather than focusing on picks, the pod is concentrated solely on game play; that is, how to bet…

There is racing at both Golden Gate Fields and Santa Anita Park on Thursday, and 1/ST Racing is celebrating by offering a special series of "Golden Hour" wagers. Golden Gate added the Thursday card after canceling for Friday. Its late double of races 7-8 are part of the Golden Hour quartet that includes races 7-8 from The Great Race Place. There is…

KY Downs To Host "King of Turf Handicapping Challenge" From the KY Downs Media Team / Jennie Rees: Kentucky Downs is again staging the online, live-money King of the Turf Handicapping Challenge at the late-summer all-turf meet that attracts the largest purses and field sizes in America. Back for the third year will be the instantly-iconic Global…

Just as the Mardi Gras festivities wind their way to Lundi Gras and Fat Tuesday in New Orleans, so too does the live racing at Fair Grounds, where there are nine races for your President's Day pleasure plus a $54483 carryover in the $1 Pick 6. The sequence begins with race 4 and features a low 15 percent takeout on any new money. The biggest…

The coast-to-coast Pick 5 is back this weekend featuring races from Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita. It is a $1 wager with a horseplayer-friendly, 15 percent takeout. To assist in your handicapping, Horse Racing Nation has put together the Coast-to-Coast Pick 5 Pro Reports, a free download. The free Pro Reports guide for the coast to coast Pick 5…

The nation's newest wager premieres this Saturday and Sunday when the Coast-to-Coast Pick Five ties together races from Gulfstream and Santa Anita. The $1 pick five bet will be offered each weekend in January, February, March and April and has a low 15% takeout. Races selected for the weekly wagers will be announced each Wednesday (for Saturday)…

Fair Grounds opens its racing season Friday, while Tampa Bay Downs will follow suit the following week. Those may not sound like the first signs of winter to many, but they are for horseplayers. And a reduction in takeout at Fair Grounds for the 80-day meeting in New Orleans will be music to bettors' ears. The pick 5 takeout has been reduced to…

The 39th annual Breeders' Cup World Championships are nearly here. Are you looking to finalize your Breeders' Cup picks? We can help! With 14 Championship races and over $31 million in total purses and awards, the 2022 Breeders' Cup World Championships on November 4-5, 2022 at Keeneland are the premier horse racing event of the year. "Official…

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ - The Meadowlands seven-program September "mini meet" comes to an end this weekend (Sept. 16-17) with the New Jersey Classic serving as the featured harness racing event. Last Friday (Sept. 9), two "A"-level 3-year-old trotting finals - one for fillies and one for colts and geldings - gave notice to horsemen and owners that New…

Debut runners are a fact of any handicapper's existence. They occur at all tracks and levels of racing. Although horseplayers always should exercise discipline in wagering on the races they're most comfortable with, the prevalence of multi-race wagers as the lowest takeout opportunities in the game makes familiarizing yourself with all variables of…

Favorites at a 41.9 percent clip during the week ending on Sunday, a stark increase from last week's numbers. For the week ending Sept. 4 chalk won at only 36.7 percent. With Labor Day racing to account for, a total of 858 races were run last week. Even with this increase from the prior week's 778 races, average field size remained the same at 7.1…

There's something to be said for structuring betting strategies close to post time, when race-day changes are known and the odds are clearer. But there are also benefits to planning your bets early, even a day or two in advance. You might be thinking, wait, how can I plan bets when I don't know which horses will scratch? And how can I definitively…

Handicapper J. Keeler Johnson shares picks and plays for Tuesday, Aug. 9 at Colonial Downs and Presque Isle Downs, along with thoughts on Colonial's $82227 Pick 5 carryover. Today's special offers from TwinSpires include: Trifecta Tuesday: Receive a 15% bonus on trifecta winnings (excluding stake amount; up to $25 per day) on every Tuesday from…

A Pick 5 carryover of $13386 awaits horseplayers Friday evening at Emerald Downs. For a 50-cent base wager, the action begins in Race 3 and the Horse Racing Nation Pro Reports offer insight on how to approach the sequence. HRN Power Picks is available for every track, every day and have shown a flat-bet profit during the current Emerald Downs…