New Wagering Menu Unveiled For Santa Anita Park’s 2024 Autumn Meet

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NEW WAGERING MENU UNVEILED FOR SANTA ANITA PARK’S
2024 AUTUMN MEET

$2 Pick 6, new $5 minimum Late Daily Double with low takeout among changes

ARCADIA, CA (September 11, 2024)—Horseplayers will find a slightly revised wagering menu for this year’s 16-day Santa Anita Autumn Meet, which opens Friday Sept. 27.

The Pick Six, which is offered daily and covers the final six races, is now a $2 minimum wager. Previously, the Pick Six was a $1 base wager. Beginning with its inception in the early 1980s, the Pick Six for decades had been a $2 minimum wager at Santa Anita and other California tracks. In recent years the base cost of the Pick Six had been lowered to different price points.

The Pick Six will continue to pay out 70 percent of each day’s pool to tickets that have all six winners with the remaining 30 percent going to consolation payouts. If there are no tickets with six winners, 70 percent of the pool will carryover to the next race day with the remainder paid out in consolations.

New to the Santa Anita wagering menu this year is a $5 minimum Late Daily Double and a $3 Late Pick Three, both featuring a player-friendly 15 percent takeout. The late Daily Double covers the last two races each race day. All other Daily Double’s offered on each day’s card will continue to be $2 minimums. The new $3 late Pick Three covers the final three races of the day.

Also for the first time at a Santa Anita Autumn Meet, Santa Anita and Gulfstream Park will combine forces to offer a $1 Coast-to-Coast Pick 5 on Saturdays and Sundays. The Coast-to-Coast Pick 5 also features a player-friendly 15 percent takeout rate.

One other change this year is the $1 Super Hi 5 will only be offered on the final race of the day. The Super Hi 5 requires players to pick the first five finishers in a race in exact order. If there are no perfect tickets with five winners, 100 percent of the pool will carryover to the following day’s Super Hi 5.

Santa Anita will continue to offer a 50-cent Early Pick 5 with 14 percent takeout, as well as the 50-cent Late Pick 5, $1 Exactas, $2 Rolling Daily Doubles, an Early 50-cent Pick 4, as well as 10-cent Superfectas on all races with a minimum of six runners. Also returning is the $3 All Turf Pick 3 which covers the final three turf races on each day’s card.

2024 Autumn Meet Wagering Menu

10-cent Superfecta on all races with a minimum six scheduled runners
50-cent Early Pick 5 with 14 percent takeout, as well as traditional 50-cent Late Pick 5
50-cent Early Pick 4, which is composed of race 2 through 5
50 cent Late Pick 4, covering final four races of each day
$1 Rolling Pick 3 beginning with first race each day
$1 Coast-to-Coast Pick 5 (Saturdays, Sundays) featuring races from Santa Anita and Gulfstream
$1 Trifecta on each race with minimum of four scheduled runners
$1 Exacta on each race
$2 Win, Place and Show wagering on each race, with 15.43 percent takeout
Rolling $2 Daily Doubles (except for final two races)
Traditional $2 Pick Six offered on the final six races each day
$3 All Turf Pick 3 covering the final three turf races of the day
$5 Late Daily Double with 15 percent takeout rate on last two races
$3 Late Pick 3 on final three races with 15 percent takeout rate on last three races

For more information please visit www.santaanita.com.
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