A $24 Ticket Yields $1.015 Million in Pick Nine Payout

Two women from Los Angeles were the only fans to select all of the winners at Santa Anita Sunday and their $24 Pick Nine ticket paid $1,015,215.80.

Only one favorite--Avasaurus in the fourth race--won on the card. There was a mandatory payout of the Pick Nine because the carryover had gone over $500,000 Saturday.

Sunday’s payoff was the sixth-highest in Santa Anita history. The record is $1.9 million, for a Pick Nine in 1986.

One of the women works for a mortgage company and the other is a pharmacist. The husband of one of the women shared with the group in one winning Pick Six ticket--worth $57,157--and five consolation pick sixes that brought the total to $63,461. There were two other tickets sold that had all the winners in the Pick Six.

Overall, after 20% was deducted for taxes, the three of them netted $862,941.50. Their total bets for the Pick Nine and the Pick Six were less than $300.