Pompano Beach, FL — A pair of $30,000 guaranteed pools and four Monday night (Jan. 4) featured events helped vault Pompano Park’s handle to $1,334,368 — its highest handle of the young season.

The previous high for the 2020-2021 season was $1,052,064 achieved just last week on Dec. 29.

Not only was the handle hot, the racing was as well, as only three favorites hit the winner’s circle on the 13-race extravaganza and several photo finishes were needed to determine winners.

With a 20-1 winner kicking off the festivities and a 41-1 chance winning three races later, the fourth race pentafecta returned $12,901.82 for the 20-cent ticket and the Pick-5 went unscathed, necessitating a carryover for the Tuesday Pick-5 and a guaranteed pool of a record $150,000.

There is also a carryover in the Pick-6 — $4,590.19 — covering races three through eight. The Super Hi-5 finale also has a carryover going into Tuesday of $53,618.71.

The aforementioned Pick-5 covers races one through five and post time is set for 7:20 p.m. for the Tuesday card.