Jimmie, Star Racing Writer

SATURDAY's Pick-9 carried the sting in its tail, 6-1 shots JAGMAR and DR STEPHANIE in the eighth and ninth races, followed by SMOOTHABILITY at 5-1 in the Frankie Frazier Memorial.

Whereas the trio of upsetters knocked out all Pick-9 bets, sending a $1.1m carryover to tomorrow's nine-race card, there were three winning Super-6 bets, each picking up a shade under a half-million dollars, $499,157.

Tomorrow's Pick-9, which looks to be a tough one, gets under way at the opening event. With more than half the races quite challenging due to inconsistency of the runners, bettors will have to gang some events. Therefore, bankers will be key to cornering what should be a $2m Pick-9.

RIGGED TO WIN, TWENTY-FIRSTOFJUNE, MISS EILEEN and ROYAL IMAGE are this week's Super-6 and Pick-9 bankers.

Most punters hate starting their Pick-9 with a banker. However, RIGGED TO WIN should use her mid-race pace to cramp the small field by stealing away into the lane.

Although not the quickest of horses, RIGGED TO WIN has always been more advanced than her six rivals and gets the ideal distance, 1400 metres, after failing by the narrowest of margins in her last two races, a short head and a neck, over 1300 and 1200 metres respectively.

With no speed in the race, RIGGED TO WIN should be close enough to the lead and her turn of foot, leaving the three-pole, will have her going away from a hard-pushed field.

Philip Feanny's TWENTY-FIRSTOFJUNE, should skip through non-winners-of-two, in the fifth at 1100 metres, as easily as she brushed aside maidens when debuting on April 26.

The three-year-old filly won comfortably enough, by seven and a half-length, in a good 1:00.3 for 1000 metres round, making her a tough cookie at 1100 metres among average runners.

Noel Ennevor's THE REBEL is back after winning on debut at 1000 metres straight almost four months ago. He clocked a good time then, 58.3, but continues to be missing from exercise and should find Feanny's runner too fit to beat.

Pick-9 bettors should also bank on the three-year-old debutant, MISS EILEEN, whose 1:01.4 on the round course at exercise, should make her unbeatable in the sixth at 1100 metres.

Derby-bound ROYAL IMAGE continues to work like a bomb at exercise and should have no equal in the eighth at 1820 metres, an Open Allowance, which is missing any real threat to Anthony Nunes' Guineas winner.

Oneil Mullings' fans should stick with the back-from-injury rider as he has two good mounts on the programme, UNQUESTIONABLE in the third at 1000 metres straight and FIWI EMBLEM in the seventh at the same distance.