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Special Del Mar/Saratoga Pick 4 offered Saturday
by Pat Mckenna
A special Pick 4 featuring a quartet of Grade 1 races from Saratoga Race Course and Del Mar will be offered this Saturday, August 20.
The Del Mar/Saratoga Pick 4, hosted by Del Mar, comprises the Fourstardave Handicap (post time 5:40 p.m. ET), the Alabama (6:18 p.m. ET), the Del Mar Handicap (8:43 p.m. ET) and the Pacific Classic (9:15 p.m. ET).
The $1 million Pacific Classic (Del Mar Race 9), the race of the summer in California, drew seven, topped by 2014 Horse of the Year California Chrome, defending champion mare Beholder, and the resurgent Dortmund, who gave California Chrome a run for his money in the San Diego Handicap last month. In the $250,000 Del Mar Handicap (Del Mar Race 8), stakes winnersAshleyluvssugar, Flamboyant, and Finnegans Wake are expected to vie for favoritism in the 1 3/8-mile turf race.
The superlative Songbird will be facing six other 3-year-old fillies in the $600,000 Alabama (Saratoga Race 10) and is 1-5 to stretch her winning streak to 10 in the 1 ¼-mile race. The $500,000 Fourstardave (Saratoga Race 9), rescheduled from last Saturday, drew the same cast, headed by Eddie Read winner Tourist, 5-2 on the morning line over eight others in the one-mile turf race.
The Pick 4, with a $0.50 minimum bet, is available on track at Saratoga and through NYRA Bets.
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