One lucky horseplayer will have plenty of extra dough for the holiday shopping season after taking down the Jackpot Super High Five wager at The Meadowlands for $20,020.22 on Saturday night (December 3).

The winning ticket was purchased through the Oregon Hub.

The 20-cent wager requires a horseplayer to correctly select the top five finishers in order. The jackpot amount pays out only if there is a single winning ticket.

Friday’s winning wager featured a carryover of $11,423. The winning sequence of 4-2-3-10-5 was led by 2-1 favourite Mr Blissful followed by 7-1 Seafood Mike, 5-1 Some Power, 52-1 Amora Beach, and 6-1 Brown Color in fifth.

This is the second time in the past three weekends that the fifth race Jackpot Super High Five has been hit. A horseplayer in Iowa took down the jackpot for $13,395 on November 11.

The last race Jackpot Super High Five has not been claimed since the season began in September. Entering Saturday, the last race jackpot sat at just less than $50,000.

In the evening's featured $17,500 top-level pacing event, Fox Hollow Farm’s Bullet Bob ($21.40) dug deep to withstand a barrage of late pressure and prevail over a powerful odds-on entry of Dream Out Loud N and In the Arsenal.

Corey Callahan wasted no time with the red-hot seven-year-old Tell All gelding, sprinting to the fore just upon entering the first turn. The pair controlled solid early sectionals of :27.4 and :54.4 before facing a first-over challenge from Dream Out Loud N (David Miller) in the final five-sixteenths of the mile. Bullet Bob dug in at once, not only working to stave off Dream Out Loud N for the length of the home straight, but also a late bid from the second-over In the Arsenal (Brett Miller), who fanned off cover upon cornering for home. Ultimately, Bullet Bob prevailed by half a length in 1:51 for his second win of the meeting and the 33rd of his career. Dream Out Loud N and In the Arsenal took second and third respectively, while the late-emerging Ashleys Husband (Vinny Ginsburg) made a belated stand-side push to claim fourth.

Mark Harder trains Bullet Bob, whose 1:51 mile earned him a new seasonal mark.

Full fields and healthy dividends spurred a strong total handle for Saturday night’s 13-race card, as players combined to wager $2,924,959.

(With files from Meadowlands Racetrack)