Month: July 2020

Gulfstream Park Hangs $500,000 Guarantee On Sunday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot

Sunday's 20-cent Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot will be guaranteed at $500,000 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved for the sixth consecutive racing day Saturday, when multiple tickets with six winners were each worth $603.68.

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.

Sunday's Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 6-11, including the $60,000 Portofino Bay, a 1 1/16-mile overnight stakes for 3-year-old fillies on turf, in Race 8. Patrick Biancone-trained Yesterdayoncemore, the 2-1 morning-line favorite, will seek her first victory since winning her U.S. debut in the Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf last September. The Irish-bred daughter of No Nay Never most recently finished a troubled second in an optional claiming allowance.  Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained Sound Machine, who won the Glitter Woman during the Championship Meet, is the 6-5 morning-line main-track-only favorite.

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Art Collector Emerges As a Kentucky Derby Contender With Blue Grass Triumph

Bruce Lunsford's homebred Bernardini colt, Art Collector, threw his hat into the ring for the Kentucky Derby with a victory over top 3-year-old filly Swiss Skydiver in Saturday's Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.

Trained by Thomas Drury and ridden by Brian Hernandez, Art Collector sat just behind Swiss Skydiver and jockey Mike Smith, took command in mid-stretch and drew away to win by about three lengths in 1:48.11 for nine furlongs on a fast track. Swiss Skydiver, coming off three consecutive graded stakes wins over fillies, finished second, with Rushie third, Enforceable fourth and Attachment Rate fifth in the field of 13 3-year-olds.

The top four finishers earned 100-40-20-10 qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby, to be run on Sept. 5.

The Blue Grass was the first stakes victory for Art Collector, who was coming off back-to-back allowance wins at Churchill Downs. This was trainer Drury's first graded stakes win as well.

Shivaree, breaking from the inside post, took the early lead, outrunning Swiss Skydiver to the first turn and setting an opening quarter mile fraction of :23.25. Swiss Skydiver took over the in the run down the backstretch after a half mile in :46.61, with Art Collector just behind that pair in third.

Going into the far turn, Swiss Skydiver continued to control the pace, but Art Collector and Rushie began to apply more pressure. After six furlongs in 1:10.63, Art Collector remained the primary challenger for Swiss Skydiver. He ranged up alongside the filly in mid stretch after a mile in 1:35.31, then gradually pulled away in the final sixteenth.

Art Collector, produced from the Distorted Humor mare Distorted Legacy, broke his maiden on turf at Kentucky Downs in his second start when under the care of Joe Sharp. After a seventh-place finish on turf in the G3 Bourbon Stakes, Sharp moved Art Collector to dirt, where the colt finished sixth and then first in two races at Churchill Downs last November. He was disqualified from the win for a medication violation and Lunsford subsequently moved the horse to Drury's care.

Art Collector won  a May 17 allowance sprint at Churchill Downs, coming from off the pace, then wired a four-horse field on June 13, his final start before the Blue Grass.

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