With one of the biggest jackpots in the history of New York racing on the line at Aqueduct today – a Pick 6 pot likely to go over $2 million – Post racing writer Ed Fountaine and the Breeders’ Cup $2 Million Man, Graham Stone, will go head to head in an attempt to nail the big prize.
A four-day carryover of $761,021 has created the juicy betting prospect and – weather permitting – races four through nine should get the pulse racing for Big A Pick Six bettors across the country.
The payoff, if only one ticket hits all six, should surpass the New York record of $767,998 paid out at the Big A in 1990.
The carryover was set in motion Wednesday, when two of the first three winners paid $30 plus. Surprisingly, 14 tickets were still alive with Festy Eskimo, the 3-2 favorite in the ninth race, who looked like a sure thing rallying in deep stretch.
But the faint-hearted Le Renard Subtil – 1-for-31, with 23 losses in a row – repulsed Festy Eskimo’s bid to pay $56.50, setting up today’s near-record carryover.
Fountaine has formulated a $192 ticket while Stone, the 44-year-old Rapid City, S.D., resident who was the lone winner of last year’s $2.6 million Breeders’ Cup Pick 6 at Santa Anita, has put together a ticket that costs $144 (see graphic).