Big Dollar Bill Cashes In; Wins Featured Machmer Hall Purse

By Amy Owens —-

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Big Dollar Bill Cashes In; Wins Featured Machmer Hall Purse

LEXINGTON, KY (April 19, 2018) – Dennis Farkas and Brett and Cheryl Franklin’s Big Dollar Bill rallied from far off the pace to post a 2¼-length victory over Silver Dust in the $76,000 Machmer Hall Purse for 4-year-olds and up before a crowd of 8,975 on a brisk Thursday afternoon. (Click here for a replay of the race.)

Trained by Ian Wilkes and ridden by Chris Landeros, Big Dollar Bill covered the 1 1/16 miles on a fast main track in 1:43.08.

Big Dollar Bill is a 4-year-old gelded Kentucky-bred son of Midnight Lute out of the Honor Grades mare A Precious Memory. The victory was worth $45,600 and increased Big Dollar Bill’s earnings to $139,726 with a record of 11-2-4-2.

Sent off as the second choice in the field of seven, Big Dollar Bill returned $5.80, $2.80 and $2.20. Silver Dust, ridden by Corey Lanerie, returned $3 and $2.40 with favored Uncle Mojo finishing another 2½ lengths back in third under Jose Ortiz and paying $2.60 to show.

Racing continues Friday with a 10-race program beginning at 1:05 p.m. ET and featuring the 24th running of the $100,000 Hilliard Lyons Doubledogdare (G3) for fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, going 1 1/16 miles on the main track. Post time for the Hilliard Lyons Doubledogdare, the afternoon’s ninth race, is 5:30 p.m.

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