After driver Braxten Boyd guided 6-5 favorite Geronimo Trio IT to the winner’s circle in Friday night’s 10th race at The Meadowlands, one shrewd player betting in Canada had a big smile on his or her face after taking down the entire $1 PK 8 pool ...
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ -- March 27, 2026 -- After driver Braxten Boyd guided 6-5 favorite Geronimo Trio IT to the winner’s circle in Friday night’s 10th race at The Meadowlands, one shrewd player betting in Canada had a big smile on his or her face after taking down the entire $1 PK 8 pool.
Entering the night, the carryover of $108,452 motivated punters to bet $10,034 of new money into the pool, for a grand total of $118,486.
Had the winning ticket been purchased in the U.S., the payout would have been $116,966, but with the conversion to Canadian funds, the ticket was exchanged for $162,454.
A look at a $1 win parlay reveals what remarkable value that player received.
Winner’s odds for the sequence were 5-2, 7-5, 1-1, 4-5, 2-1, 2-1, 6-5 and 6-5. Given that the longest price returned $7 for a $2 bet, maybe it’s more remarkable that there weren’t multiple winning tickets.
The win parlay for the eight races, based on starting with a $1 wager (which is the base bet for the PK 8), returned $1,574.55, substantially less – to say the least – than the payout of $116,966, had the winning ticket been called out in the U.S.
Peter Kleinhans, the sponsor of the $1 PK 8, will now seed the bet with $50,000 of his own money for a third time, no doubt hoping that this time around the wager goes unhit for longer than the 11 misses it experienced heading into Friday’s card.
The $1 PK 8 is offered nightly on races three through 10.
MAXIMUM EXPOSURE TAKES FEATURE: Maximum Exposure, a 4-year-old gelded son of Muscle Hill-I Feel Love, stayed red hot in the featured $15,000 high-end conditioned trot, winning a third straight race for trainer Mike Terpolilli after starting his career winless in 13 tries. Driven by Anibal Borjas, “Exposure” stopped the clock in a lifetime-best 1:53.2 and returned $6.20 as the 2-1 favorite after going wire-to-wire.
“He was pressed too early as a 2- and 3-year-old, so the owner, who is Amish, put him on the road for six months, and I swear, that’s what fixed him,” said Terpolilli. “I was the lucky one to be able to get to train him. He’s got unbelievable talent for what he went through. He is very resilient.”
A LITTLE MORE: Boyd was the top driver on the night, sending four to the winner’s circle. … Geovany Hernandez and Per Engblom topped the trainers with two victories apiece. … All-source betting on the 14-race program totaled $2,324,220. … Racing resumes Saturday at 6 p.m.
