OLDSMAR - It looked for all the world as if pair of longshot winners had helped to create a huge late Pick-5 carryover pool going into Friday’s action.

    Instead, 9-5 second choice Midway Vow staged a dramatic rally in the ninth and final on the turf under jockey Cipriano Gil for a victory that enabled one bettor to take home the whole Pick-5 shebang of $98,367.

    Earlier victories by 46-1 shot Curlin Gunner in the sixth race and 17-1 shot Keigs in the seventh had raised everyone’s hopes (well, almost everyone) of a carryover, but the 5-year-old mare Midway Vow proved best in sterling fashion, showing that sometimes a pot of gold does rest at the end of a rainbow for somebody.

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