New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle T - New York State Gaming Commission › Chapter I - Division of Horse Racing and Pari-Mutuel Wagering › Subchapter A - Thoroughbred Racing › Article 1 - Rules of Racing › Part 4011 - The Daily Double › The Superfecta › Section 4011.26 - Pick-six pools

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) A
						  winning pick-six wager requires selection of the first-place finisher in each
						  of six designated, consecutive contests, unless otherwise provided in this
						  section. The association or corporation must obtain written approval from the
						  commission concerning the scheduling of pick-six contests, the designation of
						  the method used and the amount of any cap to be set on the carryover. Any
						  changes to the approved pick-six format require prior approval from the
						  commission.
(b) The pick-six wager
						  is not a parlay and has no connection or relation to the other betting pools
						  for the respective races. The pick-six pool shall be held entirely separate
						  from all other pools and is no part of a daily double, exacta, quinella,
						  trifecta, superfecta or other wagering pool.
(c) Resale of pick-six tickets from one
						  individual to another is prohibited, shall be grounds for ejection, and may be
						  deemed illegal gambling.
(d) Races
						  in which pick-six pools shall be conducted shall be clearly designated in the
						  program and racing cards issued by the association or corporation.
(e) The design of the pick-six tickets shall
						  be clearly and immediately distinguishable from other pari-mutuel
						  tickets.
(f)
Scratched
						  horses and nonstarters
. Should a programmed starter be scratched or
						  declared a nonstarter in any pick-six race before the start of the first
						  pick-six race, affected bettors may select another betting interest, if a wager
						  can be canceled and a replacement wager issued before the start of the first
						  pick-six race, or may obtain a cancellation of the wager issued before the
						  start of the first race of the pick-six sequence. If neither option is
						  exercised, then wagers upon such scratched or declared nonstarter shall be
						  deemed wagers upon the designated horse for such race. The
designated
						  horse
means the betting entry or field upon which the most wagering
						  money has been registered at the track in the win pool at the close of win-pool
						  betting for such race. (In the event of a money tie, the tied betting entry or
						  field with the lowest program number shall be designated.) At any time after
						  wagering begins on the pick-six pool, should an entire betting entry or field
						  be scratched or declared a nonstarter in any pick-six race, no further tickets
						  selecting such betting entry or field shall be issued, and wagers upon such
						  betting entry or field, for purposes of the pick-six pool, shall be deemed
						  wagers upon the designated horse. Wagers in the pick-six pool upon an entry or
						  field of horses from which a starter or starters may have been scratched will,
						  in the case of such entry or field, be deemed wagers upon the horse or horses
						  remaining in such entry or field, except at tracks with totalisator capability
						  to record wagers selecting a coupled entry (or field) and wagers selecting any
						  individual constituent horses therein (merging such wagers for odds display and
						  payoff purposes), in which case, the wagers upon scratched constituent horses
						  will be deemed wagers upon the designated horse in such race. In case no
						  starter remains representing any betting entry or field, wagers upon such entry
						  or field shall be deemed wagers upon the designated horse in the race affected
						  by the scratch. Should the balance of a betting entry or field race as a
						  nonbetting starter for purposes of other pari-mutuel pools, as provided in
						  sections 4009.20 and
						  4009.21 of this Article, wagers
						  upon such entry or field shall be deemed wagers upon the designated horse for
						  such race.
(g)
Wagering
						  Tickets and Winners
. If neither subdivision (h) nor subdivision (i) of
						  this section applies:
(1) The pick-six pool
						  shall be apportioned as follows: 75 percent of the resulting pick-six net pool
						  for the day shall be distributed, less breaks, to the holders of wagers
						  selecting the winners of all six designated races in the pool, or to the
						  holders of the wagers selecting the winners of the designated races with no
						  more than three all-win races, and no other races are cancelled in the pick-six
						  sequence or races, and 25 percent of such net pool shall be distributed to the
						  holders of the wagers selecting the most winners.
(2) Should there be no wager selecting
						  winners of all six designated races, or to the holders of wagers selecting the
						  winners of the designated races with no more than three "all win" events, then
						  25 percent of the net pool shall be distributed, less breaks, to the holders of
						  wagers selecting the winners of the most pick-six races, and the 75 percent of
						  the net pool reserved for holders of wagers selecting six winners, or to the
						  holders of wagers selecting the winners of the designated races with no more
						  than three all-win races, then 25 percent of the net pool shall be distributed,
						  less breaks, to the holders of wagers selecting the winners of the most
						  pick-six races, and the 75 percent of the net pool reserved for holders of
						  wagers selecting six winners, or to the holders of wagers selecting the winners
						  of the designated races with no more than three all win races shall be carried
						  over and added to and distributed with the 75-percent net pool share of the
						  next pick-six pool in which a wager correctly selects the winners of all six
						  designated pick-six races, or five winners and no more than one all-win race.
						  75-percent-net-pool share and any carry-overs distributable when a wager
						  correctly selects winners of all six designated races, or five winners and no
						  more than one all-win race of a pick-six pool, there shall be distributed by
						  the track operator from its own funds, upon such occurrence, any amounts it has
						  advertised that it will add to the total distribution, or any amounts necessary
						  to yield an advertised guaranteed total distribution.