Running Aces smashes handle record on Sunday...THRIVING!!

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Running Aces smashes handle record on Sunday
Posted on August 3, 2026 by Darin Gagne, for Running Aces Casino, Hotel and Racetrack
 
Columbus, MN – Running Aces had a record setting night on Sunday (Aug. 2) as bettors wagered a total of $654,779 on the 12-race program at the Minnesota five-eighths mile oval. The previous handle record at Running Aces was $414,945 set back in 2022.


It was a solid 12-program that featured the $50,000 Dan Patch final as well as a mandatory payout for the track’s 20-cent Pick-5 Jackpot wager, which had gone unclaimed through the first 31 nights of the season and offered a carryover of $49,845 coming into the Sunday program.
Players enthusiastically responded to the opportunity for added value and pumped over $215,000 in new money into the Pick-5 wager.

The sequence for the Jackpot force-out bet began with the Dan Patch race that went to heavy favorite Cash Money Twenty and driver Casey Leonard who paid $2.80. Wisco Wild Card and Nick Roland provided some fireworks at 25-1 in leg two (paying $52.80) and the sequence then saw back-to-back second choice winners in Fox Valley Ozzy (Gary Rath, $7.60) and It’s Pointless (Dean Magee, $5.40) before race 12 favorite Marc In The Box (Brady Jenson, $4.60) delivered the goods to close out the night.

The 20-cent payout for winning Pick-5 tickets was $541.32.

[simplify]

Yup thriving all right. Maybe try math...it's not that hard. Handle * takeout - purses.
Guess what it's in the negative genius.

[G]

Running Aces smashes handle record on Sunday
Posted on August 3, 2026 by Darin Gagne, for Running Aces Casino, Hotel and Racetrack
 
Columbus, MN – Running Aces had a record setting night on Sunday (Aug. 2) as bettors wagered a total of $654,779 on the 12-race program at the Minnesota five-eighths mile oval. The previous handle record at Running Aces was $414,945 set back in 2022.


It was a solid 12-program that featured the $50,000 Dan Patch final as well as a mandatory payout for the track’s 20-cent Pick-5 Jackpot wager, which had gone unclaimed through the first 31 nights of the season and offered a carryover of $49,845 coming into the Sunday program.
Players enthusiastically responded to the opportunity for added value and pumped over $215,000 in new money into the Pick-5 wager.

The sequence for the Jackpot force-out bet began with the Dan Patch race that went to heavy favorite Cash Money Twenty and driver Casey Leonard who paid $2.80. Wisco Wild Card and Nick Roland provided some fireworks at 25-1 in leg two (paying $52.80) and the sequence then saw back-to-back second choice winners in Fox Valley Ozzy (Gary Rath, $7.60) and It’s Pointless (Dean Magee, $5.40) before race 12 favorite Marc In The Box (Brady Jenson, $4.60) delivered the goods to close out the night.

The 20-cent payout for winning Pick-5 tickets was $541.32.

I've said this a million times the game is thriving!! Good horses that stay sound can't help but make money

[Mount Pleasant]

Too bad your brain isn't thriving.

[gurals casino]

roughly 33% of the record handle is due to the fact they had a mandatory payout --in which CAW action is unusually heavy

Assiniboia Downs last night handled $4.9 mil.....-a record....--due to a mandatory payout in which $2.5 mil of fresh CAW money was wagered on another mandatory payout

you can read these data points any way you like-the reality is the record handles were because fresh CAW money flooded the pools-basically screwing over all the non CAW handle

not everyone is an idiot believing the game is thriving because they look at skewed numpers produced by CAW handle--only a few actually think that it is

[G]

You could put all the figures down you want.   My horses are making good money I am very happy with the business.

[Lockedin with Pace]

Do your horses have names?

[pocketrocketwinner]

roughly 33% of the record handle is due to the fact they had a mandatory payout --in which CAW action is unusually heavy

Assiniboia Downs last night handled $4.9 mil.....-a record....--due to a mandatory payout in which $2.5 mil of fresh CAW money was wagered on another mandatory payout

you can read these data points any way you like-the reality is the record handles were because fresh CAW money flooded the pools-basically screwing over all the non CAW handle

not everyone is an idiot believing the game is thriving because they look at skewed numpers produced by CAW handle--only a few actually think that it is

Yes. 265k of the 654k total handle came from the p5 carryover.
A wager they offer once a year and is heavily bet in the very last wagerijg cycle (caw)
These tracks use the smoke and mirrors strategy whenever possible, they rarely have legitimately good news to report.
1 wager per year is not sustainable or reliable measure of "thriving"

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I've said this a million times the game is thriving!! Good horses that stay sound can't help but make money

     

[Kenny]

Yup thriving all right. Maybe try math...it's not that hard. Handle * takeout - purses.
Guess what it's in the negative genius.

And adjust for inflation!

[Kenny]

You could put all the figures down you want.   My horses are making good money I am very happy with the business.

Yes, you love those government handouts. I hope you are saving that money when the taxpayers take it away.

[Kenny]

You could put all the figures down you want.   My horses are making good money I am very happy with the business.

Making money just like the 40,000,000 on food stamps.

[seen2much]

Nothing says thriving like a 5 horse SIRE STAKES Final

RACE 3 - Meadowlands - NJ - August 7, 2026
Conditions: NEW JERSEY SIRE STAKES FINAL Platinum Division - 2 Year Old Colts & Geldings (Declaration Fee - $1,500 payable to Meadowlands)
Gait: PacePurse: 180,000Class: NJSS-Pltnm-R1Distance: 1 MilePost Time: 7:10 PM
 
PP    Horse   Med   2026 North America YTD    Driver    Trainer   ML   Claim
    Equip   Sts    W    P    S    Time    Earnings         Stable   Odds   Price
1    Velvet Ditch
 2, Perfect Sting-Daut Full       4     0     2     1     -     $17050     Tim Tetrick    Travis Alexander       
2    Aintmyfirstro Deo
 2, Perfect Sting-
 Some Renditions       3     3     0     0     1:52.0M     $40000     Scott Zeron    Megan Scran       
3    We Want Eazy
 2, Perfect Sting-
 Passion Hanover       4     0     0     2     Q1:56.3S     $9152     Todd McCarthy    Blake Macintosh       
4    Whodouthinkuriam
 2, Perfect Sting-
 Topville Olivia       5     0     0     0     -     $4800     Dexter Dunn    Frank Calcagni       
5    Jerzy George
 2, Lazarus N-Holy Trinity       3     2     0     0     1:53.3M     $10500     Andrew McCarthy    Christopher Freck