Wagering increases since pandemic boost money to pay participants
A new and nationwide audience discovered theQuarantined at home with few other sports on television, remote spectators started watching the racing from the picturesque seaside track. And they started betting on their computers and mobile devices.
The premier event of the season — the $1 million Grade I TVG Pacific Classic — will be run Sept. 3, two weeks later than in past years. Del Mar will race Friday through Sunday for its first week, then go on a regular Thursday through Sunday schedule for the majority of the meet. There will be racing on Labor Day Monday , followed by a three-day final weekend, Sept. 9-11.
Hernandez and Rispoli will be riding the two favorites in today’s Oceanside Stakes for 3-year-olds at one mile on the turf. Seventeen-year-old Diego Herrera, whose apprenticeship ended three months ago, finished third in the jockey standings at the recently concluded Los Alamitos meet and was ninth in the standings at Santa Anita.
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