If you all did on Sunday was box Cornelio Velasquez/Jose Lezcano in exactas and play them in daily doubles, you’d have cashed $514 worth of winning tickets, for an investment of under $50.

These two jockeys combined for six wins and three seconds, and while I doubt that they figured significantly into anyone’s betting strategy, anyone paying attention to trends had the potential to make a lot of money. Throw in a couple of win bets on Ramon Hernandez, and you’ll add another $28.90.

Velasquez nearly doubled his wins at the meet today (he began the day with four), while Lezcano had had one victory coming into today’s card. Hernandez had gone 0 for 6 at Aqueduct, getting off the schneid today going two-for-two, and he wasn’t too cool to show it, walking down the stairs from his second winner’s circle photo on the day. As we talked, his phone rang; it was his daughter calling to congratulate him, but he was so graciously talking to media and fans that he missed her call. “It’s nice to win two races!” he said. As he walked out of the paddock, Pat Kelly called to him, “I’m glad you don’t have any more in today!”

The wins were pretty evenly divided among the sires represented, with four, including Freud, getting a win (Follow My Dream in the fifth), and Hook and Ladder getting two (the filly Under Serviced in the sixth race and Lookin At Her in the fourth).

Most of the races had low-priced favorites, and while they didn’t all come in, neither did the bombs that we might have come to expect at this meet, with the longest price Lookin At Her, $22.20.

A few choice overheards, at various places around the racetrack:

Two assistants praising the work of the grounds crew in getting the track to dry out so well after yesterday’s downpours.

A trainer proclaiming himself as having the world’s record for voided claims.

In a related story, a man who appeared to be the owner of one of today’s winners, regaling those around him with the story of how he tried to claim this horse at Saratoga, but forgot to sign the claim slip.

Seth Benzel high on his filly Southern Charmer, who won the second race.

A paddock-side fan pleading with Gary Contessa to win a race.

An owner to a jockey in the paddock: “I haven’t been in the winner’s circle since the last time you rode my horse, last spring—can you get me back there again?”

A story of a horse, expected to run well yesterday but who ran last, apparently the victim of twisted testicles (“twisted 350 degrees!”), every man within earshot noticeably discomfited—some just walked away…