The new “quick start” in which horses are turned loose about 175 feet before the old starting point, thus giving horses saddled with outside post positions a better shot of being a factor in races, appears to be having an immediate impact on the results of the races here at Maywood Park

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Over the 25 races contested last week at Maywood Park horses starting in the seven and/or eight posts still managed to be part of the trifecta a whopping 16 times.

Included in the winners from posts seven or eight was Racy Traci Place who captured last Thursday’s sixth race from the seven-hole and lit up the board at $67.80. That also produced an all-all superfecta as the combination of 7-4-all-all was paid out on.

The biggest fireworks were produced on Friday’s card of harness racing as one lucky patron toted home one of the largest $1 trifecta payouts in recent Maywood Park history cashing for $11,777.50. Even with the rail horse winning the race the number seven (9-1) and eight horse (45-1) followed up the pole sitter to produce a 1-7-8 combination and a huge payday for the patron at Lucky Magee’s in Joliet, Il.

Later that evening the ninth race produced another big payday even with 3-5 favourite winning the race. The seven horse (30-1) managed to finish second in the race while the eight horse (24-1) was third producing a payout of $1896.60 on the 2-8-7 combination.

(Maywood Park)