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       

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Nothing says thriving like a 5 horse SIRE STAKES Final

 
 
 

             Using the number of entries on ONE particular race to dispute the sport is absolutely thriving seems very weak.  Actually laughable and clearly desperate.     

[Kenny]

             Using the number of entries on ONE particular race to dispute the sport is absolutely thriving seems very weak.  Actually laughable and clearly desperate.     

Saying an industry is "thriving" when 85% of the funding comes from handouts is just plan manipulation of reality.