Many of the top Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic contenders through the years have come out of the Triple Crown races and proven themselves to be elite 1 ¼-mile racehorses either as 3-year-olds or sometimes not until they are 4 or 5. Others, like Tom’s d’Etat, require a little more patience. Now 7 years old, the bay horse by leading sire Smart Strike had shown promise early in his career with several runaway victories, but in the last eight months Tom’s d’Etat has emerged as a truly elite older male.
Month: June 2020
Rainbow 6: Gulfstream’s Mandatory Payout Tuesday Yields Payouts Of $6,533
Gulfstream Park's mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 Tuesday returned $6,533.16 with four of the six winners being post-time favorites.
There was $3,478,915 bet into the pool Tuesday. The Rainbow 6 will begin again Wednesday afternoon with a $100,000 guaranteed pool. First race post is noon.
Tuesday's Rainbow 6 started with favored Dinner At Five, the 4-5 favorite trained by David Braddy, winning Gulfstream's fourth race. The third and fourth legs of the Rainbow 6 produced big payouts with Miss Mac ($69.80) winning the sixth race and Allegedly Perfect ($38.60) winning the seventh. Even-money favorite Panarea ($4) won the fifth leg of the Rainbow 6 before the sequence wrapped up with 4-5 favorite I'm Prayingforthat ($3.60) winning Gulfsream's ninth and final race.
The carryover jackpot is only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day's pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
Gulfstream's 10-race program Wednesday includes a couple of maiden special weight events. The second race, for 2-year-old fillies going five furlongs on the turf, includes Flaxman Holdings Ltd.'s Uyuni, a daughter of Uncle Mo trained by Wesley Ward, and Arindel's homebred Tequa, who finished second in her debut. The fourth race, for fillies and mares, Karl and Cathi Glassman's first-time starter Pertinent. First race post Wednesday is 1 p.m…Gulfstream's July 4th program will feature 12 races including the $75,000 Carry Back for 3-year-olds and the $75,000 Azalea for 3-year-old fillies. First race post is noon.
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9-For-9 Assiniboia Downs Filly Seeks Perfect 10 in Canada day S.
Hidden Grace (Going Commando), a 9-for-9 Manitoba-bred, will seek a perfect 10th straight stakes victory in her 4-year-old debut Wednesday night in the $25,000 Canada Day S. at Assiniboia Downs.
Hidden Grace has raced exclusively in Manitoba (eight starts) and Alberta (one start), with five of her nine stakes victories coming against provincial-bred or sales-restricted company. Essentially, she has wrapped up every single one of her wins by the eighth pole, having never been headed in the stretch.
Her breeder and owner partnerships are comprised of some of the same people who bred and raced the hard-trying overachiever Escape Clause (Going Commando). That mare retired last autumn with 20 wins and $866,100 in earnings after emerging from small-circuit racing in Canada to win 2018 stakes at Del Mar and Santa Anita before losing only by a nose to the powerful Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute) in the 2019 GI Apple Blossom H. at Oaklawn.
Hidden Grace is owned and was bred by Cam Ziprick, Charles Fouillard and Barry Arnason. As a yearling, Ziprick consigned her to the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Manitoba Division) sale, then bought her right back for $11,919. This transaction made her eligible to compete in the stakes program for horses sold through that auction.
In addition to her provincial- and sales-restricted stakes dominance, Hidden Grace has also won four $30,000 open stakes at Assiniboia. She’s been off since October and will make her first start for a new trainer, Murray Duncan, after being previously trained by Michael Nault in 2019 and Don Schnell in 2018.
He main competition in Wednesday’s second race, which is a 7 1/2-furlong open stakes, will come in the form of Miss Imperial (Maclean’s Music), who is also conditioned by Duncan.
Miss Imperial sports an 8-for-18 record after stints in the barns of trainers Jason Servis, Joe Sharp, and Brad Cox on the New York, New Orleans, and Oaklawn circuits. She was claimed three times for decreasing prices between last August and this April ($50,000, $40,000, $25,000), and it was Duncan who most recently dropped a slip for her at Oaklawn Apr. 11. Since shipping to Winnipeg, Miss Imperial has wired two open sprint stakes.
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Robin Goodfellow’s racing tips: Best bets for Wednesday, July 1
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow dishes out his tips for Wednesday's meetings at Musselburgh, Southwell and Kempton.
