Bay Meadows Bettor Wins $1 Million-Plus in Pick Six

SAN MATEO, Calif. — An anonymous fan made over $1 million from his day at the races Friday when he selected the winners of the second through seventh races at Bay Meadows and won the Pick Six.

The bettor won a whopping $1,132,466, a figure race track officials said could be the biggest single payoff in U.S. racing history.

“The Eagle has landed, and we have one winner,” track announcer John Gibson said after the eighth race.

The bonanza was definitely a California record. The previous high payoff of $719,777.40 was won by a 68-year-old Vallejo man Dec. 1.

The winning numbers were 10-3-2 or 5-5-6-10.

And it was the $74.20 seventh-race victory by Cordova Red, the second longest shot on the board, that made the unidentified person a millionaire.

The earlier winners in the Pick-Six were Starkey Too ($14.00) in the second race, One And All ($13.80) in the third, Lenado ($7.20) in the fourth, Country Skies ($12.00) in the fifth and Persuation ($5.00) in the sixth.

There were 103 consolation tickets with five winners that paid $4,251.60 apiece.

Lured by a five-day carryover, 17,702 fans attended Bay Meadows and four off-track locations that are wired into the betting, and they wagered a Northern California record mutuel handle of $3,972,670. That topped the old mark of $3,972,495 set Nov. 19, 1983, when there was a $1-million Pick Six carryover.