Something Awesome gets rest

Something Awesome, who finished last as the 5-2 favorite, bled through Lasix during the $300,000 Pimlico Special on Friday, according to trainer Jose Corrales.

Since being transferred to Corrales last fall, Something Awesome had won 5 of 6 starts, including the Grade 2 Charles Town Classic and the Grade 3 General George at Laurel Park. The 7-year-old had previously been racing on a synthetic surface at Woodbine.

“On a scale of one to five, he bled a three,” Corrales said.

Something Awesome, who is owned by Stronach Stable, will be turned out on a farm and will rejoin Corrales’s stable in late summer. Corrales said that if he trains well, Something Awesome could be considered for the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs.

The son of Awesome Again is 9 for 25 in his career with earnings of almost $1.1 million.

Big Rainbow 6 carryover

There will be a Rainbow 6 carryover of $216,237 on Thursday at Pimlico after there were many, many winners of the wager Preakness Day.

There was a $29,406 carryover into Saturday after there were multiple winning tickets on Friday’s Black-Eyed Susan card.

The Preakness card was unusually chalky, and the 20-cent Rainbow 6 paid $41.04. The winning Rainbow 6 horses returned $2.80, $5.40, $7.80, $4, $3.20, and $2.80.

The highest winning mutuel on the entire 14-race card was the $7.80 Switzerland paid in the Maryland Sprint.

The Rainbow 6 on Thursday begins on race 4.

The races are a conditioned $5,000 claimer; a $7,500 starter on turf; a $5,000 starter; a 3-yearold maiden race; a second-level optional claimer; and a $16,000 maiden claimer on turf.

The number of betting interests are 7, 13, 9, 10, 8, and 14.

Asmussen wins trainer battle

Trainer Steve Asmussen for the second year in a row took down first prize in the $100,000 Preakness weekend trainers’ competition.

Horses earned points for where they finished in stakes on Black-Eyed Susan Day and Preakness Day. Asmussen had a big weekend and took down the $50,000 top prize.

On Saturday, Asmussen won the Grade 3 Maryland Sprint with Switzerland, the $200,000 Chick Lang with Mitole, and the $100,000 James W. Murphy with Tap Daddy. He sent out Tenfold to finish a close third in the Preakness, and also earned points with five other horses.

On Friday, he won the Skipat Stakes with Vertical Oak, finished second in the Grade 3 Pimlico Special with Untrapped, and was third in the Grade 3 Miss Preakness with Buy Sell Hold.

Asmussen’s horses earned 82 points in the competition. Graham Motion was second with 45 points and earned a bonus of $25,000.

A $50,000 trainers’ competition for non-stakes races over the weekend was put in place this year. Linda Rice’s horses earned 22 points, good enough for first place and a bonus of $25,000. Mary Eppler finished second with 19 points and earned $10,000.

Pick 5 guarantee at Monmouth

Monmouth Park will have the first of its five bundled stakes days Saturday. The three-day holiday weekend will also host the popular food truck festival.

The four Saturday stakes will be part of a 50-cent pick five that will offer a unique guarantee: If there is a single winning ticket, that person is guaranteed to receive $150,000 regardless of pool size. The guarantee will also be in place on the other big days of the meet – Father’s Day, June 17; June 30; Haskell Day, July 29; and Sept. 1.

The four Saturday stakes are the Grade 2, $200,000 Monmouth Stakes; the Grade 3, $100,000 Salvator Mile; the $75,000 Boiling Springs; and the $60,000 John J. Reilly.

Pimlico’s loss on Saturday has turned into Monmouth’s gain, as Divisidero and Frostmourne, both of whom were scratched out of the Grade 2 Dixie after it was moved to the main track, are expected for the Monmouth Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile turf race.

Money Multiplier, who won the Monmouth Stakes a year ago for trainer Chad Brown, also is probable for the race. Money Multiplier will be making his first start since finishing third in the Group 1, $1 million H.H. Emir’s Trophy at Al Rayyan Racecourse in Qatar on Feb 24.

In the Emir’s Trophy, Money Multiplier raced for owner Khalifa Al Kuwari and was trained by Jassim Mohammed Ghazali Jahromi. He is now back in Brown’s stable.

The Salvator Mile, a maintrack race, could attract Sunny Ridge, Page McKenney, Great Stuff, and Shaft of Light.