Horse dies after easing up in stretch
BALTIMORE — A filly collapsed and died while running at Pimlico Race Course on Friday, the day before the track hosts the second leg of the Triple Crown.
Congrats Gal faltered in the upper stretch of the Miss Preakness Stakes in 83-degree heat and was eased to the finish line.
The Florida-bred 3-year-old was running her sixth career race. She came in last in the eighth race on the card and fell to the dirt about 100 yards past the finish line.
Congrats Gal jockey Trevor McCarthy said the filly felt hot walking on the track before the race. As a medical team rushed to the scene, Mccarthy said, “She’s clearly sound. Nothing’s broken or anything like that.”
After being treated on the scene, Congrats Gal was taken from the track by ambulance.
It has been a difficult year for horse racing. There were 23 horse deaths at Santa Anita Park in California in a three-month span.
Black-eyed Susan Stakes
Favored Point of Honor rallied from the outside and held off Ulele to win the Black-eyed Susan Stakes by a half-length.
Point of Honor paid $7.80, $4.60 and $3.20 in the $250,000 Grade 2 race for 3-year-old fillies. It was her third win in four career races.
Ridden by Joel Rosario, Ulele paid $7.80 and $5.00 after being installed a 15-1 underdog in the morning line. Cookie Dough paid $3.80 to show. who hit a $40 trifecta on the Kentucky Derby that paid $459,024 and a $100 exacta that paid $150,480. Or so he thought.
The doctor was unable to collect the huge payouts because he placed the bets at a non-pari-mutuel location — the William Hill race and sportsbook inside Reno casino Tamarack Junction — that caps the exacta payout odds at 150-1 and the trifecta odds at 500-1.
Those caps lowered his $40 trifecta payout to $20,000 and his $100 exacta payout to $15,000.
“That’s more than I’ve ever won on any sports bet,” said Friedlander, 53. “But the way it went down, it feels like a huge loss.”
A self-described recreational sports bettor who has played in the World Series of Poker, Friedlander said the only time he bets on horse racing is in the Kentucky Derby.
He was headed to the south side of Reno on May 4, Derby Day, for his son Justin’s high school track meet in Carson City when he stopped at Tamarack Junction to place his bets.
He bet a $100 exacta box of the 8, 13, 16 and 20 horses that cost $1,200, and a $40 trifecta box of 8,
13, 16 and 20 that cost $960. To win the exacta box, Friedlander needed any of his four horses to finish first and second. To win the trifecta box, he needed any of the four horses to finish first, second and third.