10 Split $1.3-Million Payoff in Pimlico Double-Triple

A double-triple pool of more than $1.3 million that accumulated over 23 days of wagering at Pimlico Race Course has been won by 10 tickets.

Each winner in Saturday’s double triple will receive $134,161.80 in the second-highest payout in Maryland thoroughbred racing history.

The program generated a pari-mutuel handle of $4.28 million, and the double-triple alone drew $829,617 in wagers from a combined crowd of 19,319 at Pimlico and Laurel. It was the largest crowd in seven months and the biggest handle on any day, excluding Preakness Day, at Pimlico.

The 10 winners had to pick the correct order of finish--first, second and third--in the third and fifth races. One of the winners was Andrew Beyer, who writes a racing column for the Washington Post.

Saturday’s double-triple payoffs were short of the state record of $314,366 that went to a syndicate of Washington-area professionals at Laurel on Feb. 17, 1987.

Parimutuel Director Elizabeth Quill said five of Saturday’s winning tickets were bought at Pimlico, five at Laurel. The after-tax payoff was $107,329, she said.