That's a very daunting card that was drawn today for Saturday's races. 14 races, of which 10 are called stakes, have a total, including AE's, of 185 entries. Many trainers have entered horses as if there were not going to be any racing for a while thereafter, and that might very well be the case.
I had read that the Racing Secretary was going to move the stakes races from Friday to Saturday, and indeed there are none on the Friday card. They must have decided not to run some of the planned races that didn't have large fields, opting for those with the largest number of entrants.
Saturday is a mandatory payout day for the Rainbow Pick 6. This morning the carryover pool was around $1.9 million, and it should grow rapidly through Saturday. Given the size of the fields, I suspect it will take a very large bankroll to assemble a ticket that has a fighting chance of hitting all 6.
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