Rainbow 6, Late Pick 5, Super Hi-5 Carryovers Thursday, Oct. 17
Country’s Leading Apprentice Correa Enjoys Three-Win Day Monday

LAUREL, MD – Maryland Million weekend will kick off with a trio of carryovers when live racing returns to Laurel Park with a 10-race program Thursday, Oct. 17.

First race post time is 1:10 p.m.

No one solved the 20-cent Rainbow 6 on Monday’s Columbus Day holiday program, resulting in a carryover of $6,138.20 for Thursday. Tickets with five of six winners returned $215.54.

The 50-cent Late Pick 5 was also not hit, creating a carryover of $5,681.44. Tickets with four of five winners Monday were each worth $48.55.

There will also be a carryover of $697.17 in the $1 Super Hi-5 for Thursday’s opener.

Thursday’s Rainbow 6 spans Races 5-10 and opens with the day’s feature, a $45,000 second-level optional claiming allowance for fillies and mares 3 and older going one mile on the Dahlia turf course, which drew a field of 12. Both sequences include a maiden event sprinting 5 ½ furlongs on the Dahlia in Race 8 that attracted a field of 10 2-year-olds.

In all, Thursday’s card features five races over Laurel’s world-class turf course that drew 53 entries, an average of 10.6 starters per race.

The 34th Jim McKay Maryland Million Day program Saturday, Oct. 19 will feature seven stakes and four starter stakes worth $1.02 million in purses, led by the $150,000 Classic for 3-year-olds and up going 1 1/8 miles on the main track. First race post time on Maryland Million Day is noon.

Entries will be taken and post positions drawn for the Maryland Million Day program on Wednesday, Oct. 16. The draw takes place from 4-6 p.m. in the sports book on Laurel’s second-floor clubhouse and will be streamed live at www.laurelpark.com

Notes: Julio Correa, the country’s leading apprentice rider, picked up three wins Monday aboard Zitarrosa ($5.80) in Race 2, Janelle Dreams ($19) in Race 3 and Aladdin Sane ($15.40) in Race 10. Equibase statistics show Correa, who rides with a five-pound weight allowance, with 107 wins this year, 12 more than Gulfstream Park-based apprentice Cristian Torres.