The exotic bet will commence each Saturday with the sixth race from either Belmont, Saratoga or Aqueduct and will include two races, two Monmouth Park races, and one each from Philadelphia and Delaware Parks.

All the races will be contested within one hour with a $100,000 guarantee and 15 percent takeout rate.

Most takeouts on similar wagers range from 20 percent to 30 percent.

There will be a carryover pool to the following week if the wager is not hit.

The New York Racing Association and the Mid-Atlantic cooperative tracks are in a dispute over simulcasting fees, and the proposed wager will not begin until the issue is resolved.

Monmouth, Philadelphia, and Delaware are all members of the cooperative, which includes 16 tracks in the region.

Short fields continue. While the Kentucky Derby is celebrated throughout the racing world today, Delaware Park continues to have difficulty filling its races.

The beautiful Stanton track offered but four thoroughbred races Tuesday and just six today.

Horse shortages have plagued the area this time of the season for years, but the problem is acute lately.

Turf racing, which usually draws more entries, should begin in a few weeks.

"New" rider returns. For two of the last three years, Bensalem resident Scott Lake has been the leading trainer in the nation in total victories.

Lake recently added a jockey to his huge operation, 38-year-old Jennifer Stisted.

Stisted is Lake's wife, and she returned to riding recently after a six-year hiatus, which included giving birth to their son and daughter. She won on her second mount on Baltimore Raven at Laurel on April 20, paying $17.80.

Before their marriage, Stisted rode the hard-hitting mare Elfin Glen for Lake.