LAUREL, MD – Friday’s Stronach 5 will feature a $100,000 guaranteed pool, a 12-percent takeout, and races from four tracks with three of those contests run on the turf.

    The Stronach 5 kicks off this week at 4:19 p.m. with Gulfstream Park’s seventh race, a five-furlong turf event for 3-year-olds and up with a $35,000 claiming price. The second leg will be Laurel Park’s ninth race with a field of 12 going 5 ½ furlongs on the main track. After a return to Gulfstream for the ninth race, a 7 ½-furlong turf event with 13 entered, the Stronach 5 heads to California for races at Golden Gate Fields and Santa Anita, where maiden fillies and mares go 1 1/8th miles on the turf in the final leg.

Friday’s Stronach 5 sequence

 ?   Leg One – Gulfstream Park 7th Race (nine entries, 5 furlongs turf) 4:19 ET, 1:19 PT

?   Leg Two –Laurel Park 9th Race (12 entries, 5 ½ furlongs) 5:17 ET, 2:17 PT

?   Leg Three –Gulfstream Park 9th Race (13 entries, 7 ½ furlongs turf) 5:22 ET, 2:22 PT

?   Leg Four – Golden Gate Fields (nine entries, 5 ½ furlongs) 5:56 ET, 2:56 PT

?   Leg Five – Santa Anita Park 5th Race (11 entries, 1 1/8 miles turf) 6:11 ET, 3:11 PT

     The minimum wager on the Stronach 5 is $1. If there are no tickets with five winners, the entire pool will be carried over to the next Friday.

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