from the Meadowlands Publicity Department

East Rutherford, NJ — The traditional Pick 6 returns to the Meadowlands’ wagering lineup tonight with a lower takeout and a guaranteed pool.

The Pick 6 covers races four through nine each night and requires a $1 minimum bet. For 2007, the Pick 6 will have a 20 percent takeout and a guaranteed $10,000 gross pool for winning six-of-six tickets.

The last full year of the Pick 6 at the Meadowlands was 2005, highlighted by a $235,000 carryover in July that attracted a Pick 6 pool of nearly $450,000.

The Pick 6 will carry a consolation payout every night. If there are no tickets with six correct winners, 25 percent of the pool is paid out as a consolation to those tickets with the most correct winners and 75 percent of the pool is carried over to the next night. If there are winning six-of-six tickets, those winners receive 75 percent of the pool and 25 percent of the pool is paid out to those selecting five of six winners.

Around the Meadowlands for January 12, 2007

This weekend’s Meadowlands Racing Insider guests include Mike Lachance, who talks about Continentalvictory’s induction into the Living Horse Hall of Fame in July, and he also discusses Saturday’s Presidential Final in which he drives Roddy’s Bags Again.

Trainer Mark Ford previews not only the Presidential and his horse All Over The Place, but also the rest of the stock in his barn.

Weekly features include Bob Heyden’s Backstretch Buzz, Horses to Watch with Darin Zoccali and notebooks with Ken Warkentin and host Mike Curci.

Casimir Camotion, third in last year’s Presidential Final, is absent from the free-for-all series this year. He is recovering from a broken bone.

“He had a slab fracture of his right knee,” reported trainer Bruce Saunders. “He was operated on Thanksgiving. He has six weeks stall rest and was hand walked for 10 days. He’ll go to the farm for two to three months for R & R, and then another two to three months of hand walking. The best case scenario for him would be to have him ready by September, and then I’d plan on racing him here at the Meadowlands in November. I wouldn’t put him on any smaller tracks at that point. It’s tough to come back from an injury like that especially as you get older.”

The 7-year-old Camluck gelding, owned by M & M Harness Racing LLC of Nanuet, New York, has 28 wins, 18 seconds and 16 thirds from 94 career starts for earnings of $1.3 million. His last start was November 18, 2006 — a fourth in an $85,000 Classic Series leg at the Meadowlands.

24-year-old Jimmy Marohn, Jr. provided some insights into his driving assignments for Saturday night at the Meadowlands.

He starts in the second race with Fatguyinalilcoat.

“He won his qualifier here,” Marohn said. “He’s been holding his own in the same level at Monticello ($30,000 claimer), but, of course, it’s different doing it here. I’ll have to see if he fits in with these.

“Wynnfield Scamp (fifth race) was in too deep last time but still got a check. This is a little bit of a drop for him, and it should help. Headmaster (sixth race) is shipping in from Freehold. It’s tough to say where he belongs. JJs Gazette (tenth race) is all right, a real fast horse, not a big horse though. He did well in the non-winners of three level but now takes a step up this week. I’m not sure how he’ll do against the better horses, but I think he’ll get money in there.”

Marohn is busy traveling all over the East Coast to drive.

“I have a small stable, and I want to build on it,” he said. “A few years down the road, my ultimate goal is to have seven or eight horses in at the Meadowlands on a Saturday night. (In 2006) I went from the Meadows to Rockingham to Plainridge to Colonial with an occasional stop at the Meadowlands. I’m paying my dues. Even when you race here, you’re still paying your dues. It’s a tough place to come in and drive. Any one of the guys here could go to any other track and be leading driver. But I’ve found myself talking a little more to the top guys than I had before.”

Jacqueline M. Ingrassia, the leading woman driver at the Meadowlands, celebrates a milestone birthday on Sunday — her 60th. The British-born Ingrassia, who resides in Allentown, New Jersey, has made the most of her limited driving opportunites and has 1,021 victories with earnings of $4.3 million.

“My biggest thrill in the sport was winning the Yonkers Trot (with Goldfish in 2000),” said Ingrassia, best known as Lady J. “I remember watching the replay and everybody broke out in applause in the paddock for me, a great moment.”

Some of the other top horses she has campaigned include Southern Raider (fourth in the 1989 Woodrow Wilson), Almond Joy, Surging Sumo and Springfield. She scored her 20th Meadowlands victory on December 4, 2004 with Aeronautess in the richest Meadowlands race to be won by a woman driver — the $211,800 Goldsmith Maid.