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The 50-1 Crew (from left): trainer Bill Mooney, jockey Dario Dalrymple and trainer Curtis Maxwell.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was talking to someone, I looked up and they were already in the gate,\u201d said Maxwell, who was paddocking the horse for Mooney partly because Mooney had injured his leg in a stall when a horse ran into him. \u201cThe race started and it was too late.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI had $10 across on her,\u201d said Mooney. \u201cI got back around $700.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ropers N Wranglers paid $104.10 to win, $33.50 to place, and $8.80 to show, and knocked just about every live ticket holder out of the Pick 4. The first race in the Pick 4 sequence was also won by a longshot, Ethan\u2019s Animal ($27.10), trained by Ryan Desjarlais. In the sixth race and third leg of the Pick 4, last year\u2019s Winnipeg Futurity winner Welcometohollywood ($8.20) recaptured her stakes-winning form and won the $50,000 Jack Hardy Stakes for trainer Jared Brown, setting up a monster Pick 4 payoff in the seventh race.<\/p>\n
There were only five live Pick 4 tickets heading into the seventh race, and three of them required favourite Lab Rat to win for the $27,000 payoff. The other two live tickets \u2014 on second choice Burn Jakey Burn and third favourite Cajun Eddie \u2014 were both paying over $70,000. If one of the other three horses in the race had won, nobody would have held a winning Pick 4 ticket, and the pool of $121,206 would have carried over to the next day.<\/p>\n
Lab Rat ($4.10) won the seventh race, and three lucky ticket holders filled their pillowcases with over $27,000 each. But oh, the havoc the \u201c50 to 1\u201d crew caused! The payoffs in Ropers N Wranglers race were also huge, including a $1 Exacta of $598.35, a 20-cent Trifecta that paid $392.20, a 20-cent Superfecta of $1,505.37, and a 20-cent Pick 3 that paid $679.52.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe knew she was going to win,\u201d said Mooney, who had claimed the horse in her previous start for $5,000 after a discussion with her former owner\/trainer Eugene Burns. Burns pointed out that the horse was sprinting at ASD when her actual forte was distance races.<\/p>\n
Ropers N Wranglers had broken her maiden at Santa Anita for a $50,000 claiming price going 1 1\/8-miles on the turf and had also finished fourth in the $50,000 Emerald Downs Distaff Stakes going 1 1\/16 miles on the dirt just a year ago on August 11, 2024. Class everywhere, yet she started out winning here this year in a $5,000 claiming sprint on June 2.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I first got her, she wasn\u2019t really eating that well,\u201d said Mooney. \u201cBut then she started eating and started to get happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe ran off on me twice in the morning,\u201d added Dalrymple, signalling her willingness to run. \u201cShe was ready.\u201d<\/p>\n
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