NYRA Bets customer wins a cool $500K in life-changing Pick-5 score

by Keith McCalmont

A NYRA Bets customer took down Saturday's early Pick 5 at Gulfstream Park with a life-changing score that returned $524,966.50 for the $0.50 wager.

The winning customer, based in Lexington, Kentucky, joined the NYRA Bets community on March 14 via the $200 new member deposit match bonus program. On Saturday, playing via the NYRA Bets App, the customer constructed the winning Pick 5 ticket which cost a total of $409.50.

Saturday's early Pick 5 wager at Gulfstream Park, which requires bettors to correctly select the winners of the first five races on the card, saw three improbable longshots kick off the sequence followed by a pair of favorites.

Freddy Soto [No. 8, $148.40] hounded 22-1 shot Congrats That throughout the opening leg of the sequence, a five-furlong turf sprint, and prevailed by a half-length under jockey Luis Reyes as the second longest shot on the board at 73-1 in a field of 11.

In the second leg, Union Lane [No. 4, $70] surged to the lead under Miguel Vasquez and opened up a 5 ½-length lead at the top of the lane in the one-mile claiming event on the Gulfstream main track. Sent to post at 34-1, Union Lane dug in gamely at the wire to hold off favored Witch Hunter by a neck.

The string of longshots continued in the Gulfstream third as He's a Babe [No.1, $75.20] went to gate-to-wire at 36-1, longest shot on the board, for a narrow neck score under popular New York-based rider Dylan Davis. The early $0.50 Pick 3 returned a remarkable $14,483.65.

A pair of logical favorites concluded the lucrative wager with Enzoexpress [No. 3, $7.40] taking the penultimate leg under Victor Lebron with an authoritative three-length score in a claiming sprint.

The well-bred Lashara [No. 6, $5.40], a sophomore bay daughter of American Pharoah trained by Mark Casse and piloted by Luis Saez, graduated in a one-mile maiden special weight on the Gulfstream green to complete the sequence.

NYRA Bets is the official online wagering site for the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) available to customers across the United States. NYRA Bets provides fans the opportunity to wager on racing from tracks around the world at any time. The NYRA Bets app is available for download for iOS and Android at NYRA Bets App.

In addition to a host of weekly special offers, NYRA Bets continues to offer a $200 deposit match bonus to new members. For further details on the new member bonus, visit NYRABets.com/#sign-up-bonus.

About NYRA Bets

Introduced in August 2016, NYRA Bets is a leading online wagering platform, available nationwide online, on your phone and at kiosks at NYRA tracks. As a legal, United States-based, regulated and licensed provider of horse race wagering, NYRA Bets gives fans the opportunity to wager on more than 250 race tracks worldwide from anywhere at any time. You can download the NYRA Bets app for iOS and Android.

For more information, visit www.nyrabets.com.