Tag: Rainbow Pick 5

The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono Downs Week in Review

2019-09-05

August 31-September 6, 2019

The past week’s racing at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono was highlighted by a mandatory Rainbow Pick 5 payout, which awarded winning tickets at over $1,200 a pop Sunday night. It will be fun to see how high the Rainbow rises as it starts up again and rolls through the rest of the season at Pocono. As usual, we saw some outstanding performances over the past four racing programs, and we highlight the best of those now by handing out the Weekly Awards.

PACER OF THE WEEK: ... 

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Labor Day Weekend full of excitement at the racetrack!

2019-08-21

Labor Day Weekend at the Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono will be full of excitement with a jackpot; a fun giveaway; and a baseball legend!

 

Sunday, September 1st, the extremely popular Rainbow Pick 5 will have a mandatory $150,000 plus payout!  During the season, bettors have been “racing” to wager on the Rainbow Pick 5, with the jackpot awarded several times throughout the season.  There can only be one winner, so this is extremely difficult to hit.  Once the jackpot ... 

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The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono 2017 Season Review

2017-11-16

Well, here we are at the end of another campaign of racing at The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono. The meet officially ends on Saturday, November 25, at which point we in racing all begin our hibernation periods. It’s hard to believe that it is the end of the racing season, perhaps because we were blessed in Northeastern Pennsylvania with such benign weather for most of September and October. When the weather really started to bite in November, we were already on the home stretch.
Reflecting ... 

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The Downs at Mohegan Sun Pocono Week In Review

2017-08-29

August 26-September 1, 2017
This is usually the space where we hand out Weekly Awards, but I thought I’d take a break from that this week to address a recent phenomenon at the track. That phenomenon is Rainbow Pick 5 Fever!
For those who might have missed it, here’s the gist of it. The Rainbow Pick 5 is a wager that requires a bettor to pick the winners of five consecutive races. But that’s not all. If there are multiple winning tickets on a given night, the winners share in ... 

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