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A pick 6 is a type of wager offered by horse racing tracks. It requires bettors to select the winners of six consecutive races. Because of the great difficulty in picking six straight winners, plus the number of betting interests involved, payoffs for successful wagers are quite high, sometimes in the millions of dollars.
This unanticipated victory made Davis the sole winner of the Pick 6 jackpot. Eventually, Harn, Davis and DaSilva entered pleas of guilty. The incident was the largest betting scandal to take place in the United States in a century. It also exposed serious security flaws in the system used to collect bets for horse races.
Pick 6 may refer to: Pick 6 (horse racing), a wager in which a bettor picks one horse in each of six races; Pick 6 (lottery), a game in which six numbers are picked; Pick-six, an interception returned for a touchdown in gridiron football "Pick Six", a ranking system used by Ring of Honor to determine championship contenders
Kentucky Derby contender Dornoch works at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. April 25, 2024. The horse is trained by Louisvillian Danny Gargan.
Hong Kong generates the largest horse racing revenue in the world and is home to some of the largest horse betting circles including the Hong Kong Jockey Club founded in 1884. In 2009, Hong Kong generated an average US$ 12.7 million in gambling turnover per race 6 times larger than its closest rival France at US$2 million while the United ...
The event was created as a year-end championship for North American Thoroughbred racing, and also attracts top horses from other parts of the world, especially Europe. The idea for the Breeders' Cup was proposed at the 1982 awards luncheon for the Kentucky Derby Festival by pet food heir John R. Gaines (1928–2005), [ 9 ] a leading ...
Aaron Rodgers rarely throws any interceptions, period. Pick-sixes? Practically unheard of. A rookie fourth-round pick doing it? No way. Jack Jones has quite the story to tell for many years to come.
Jackpot: A Pick 4 bet on races 3–6 at every meeting. Pick Six: On races 1–6 at one meeting on all Sundays and occasionally on other days (introduced on 9 January 2011). Placepot: The better must correctly pick one horse to place in each of the races 2–7.