Day 40
CLASSIX CARRYOVER None
TODAY’S FIRST POST 1:30 p.m.
TODAY’S WAGERING MENU Win-placeshow, exacta, trifecta and superfecta wagering offered on all races. Daily double (races 1-2, 8-9). CLASSIX (races 3-8). Pick-3 (rolling begins with race 2). Pick-4 (races 2-5 races 6-9).
TODAY’S SIMULCASTING SCHEDULE 11:25 a.m. Tampa Bay Downs, 11:45 a.m. Mahoning Valley, noon Gulfstream Park, 3:25 p.m. Turf Paradise, 5 p.m. Penn National, 6 p.m. Mountaineer, 6:05 p.m. Charles Town, 6:25 p.m. Daytona Beach (greyhounds).
TODAY’S FEATURE
Today’s eighth race is an optional claiming/allowance race with a $67,000 purse for 3-year-olds and up at 6 furlongs. The 5-2 program favorite is Ali’s Birthday, who is trained by Randy Morse and ridden by Calvin Borel. Ali’s Birthday has a second and third in two starts this meet, losing to Ride On Curlin by a head on opening day and finishing third to Captain Genius in an optional claimer Feb. 13. Other contenders include Bagg O’Day, 9-2, Ammaroo, 5-1, and Be a Hero, 5-1. Ammaroo and Be a Hero each have a victory over the track this meet.
FINAL FURLONG
Today’s weather forecast calls for 77 degrees and a 20 percent chance of rain, but if rain stays away Oaklawn could have its first fast dry track since March 7. Fourteen of the past 15 racing cards have been held on tracks listed as wet-fast, sloppy, muddy or good. Before March 7, there was a fast track on Feb. 20.