Month: July 2020

Gulfstream Park: $1-Million Jackpot Guarantee For Sunday’s Rainbow 6

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $1 million when racing resumes Sunday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.

First race post is noon.

The Rainbow 6 has not been hit by a single winning ticket in 14 consecutive days. Multiple tickets with six winners Saturday returned $4,015.80.

Sunday's Rainbow 6 begins with the sixth race, a mile turf event for 3-year-olds and up that attracted a field of nine. The seventh race and second in the Rainbow 6 sequence is a $50,000 maiden event for 3-year-olds that has a 9-5 morning-line favorite in El Pillo. There are four turf races in Sunday's Rainbow 6 with the final two races being run on the grass.

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.

There will be a mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 on Sunday, August 2.

Tatweej Makes Winning Debut, Mexican Wonder Boy Wins U.S. Debut
Shadwell Stable's Tatweej, a 3-year-old son of Tapit purchased for $2.5 million at the 2017 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, won his racing debut Saturday at a mile. Out of the Grade 1-winning mare Tiz Miz Sue, Tatweej set fractions of :23.80, :46.10 and 1:10.50 for trainer Todd Pletcher before coming home under jockey Edgard Zayas in 1:36.60.

Don Fausto Racing's 3-year-old colt Mexican Wonder Boy made a successful U.S. debut, winning an allowance optional claimer at a mile in 1:36.94. Trained by Fausto Gutierrez, Mexican Wonder Boy won four of seven races in Mexico last year, his last three by 31 ¾ lengths. For jockey Leonel Reyes it was his 300th victory in the U.S.

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Shirreffs Sends Honor A.P. Out For ‘Practice’ Before Shared Belief Stakes

Santa Anita Derby winner Honor A.P. led a group of talented 3-year-olds, several with Kentucky Derby potential, in workouts Saturday morning at Del Mar. Honor A.P. and two Bob Baffert trainees, Cezanne and Thousand Words, were undergoing their final major exercise for next Saturday's $100,000 Shared Belief Stakes, which has qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby.

The COVID-19 outbreak forced the Run for the Roses to be rescheduled from its traditional first Saturday in May spot to the first Saturday in September.

Honor A.P., trained by John Shirreffs for the C R K Stable of Lee and Susan Searing, went after the second track renovation break, arriving around 8 a.m. under exercise rider Francisco Alvarado. The son of Honor Code worked with 4-year-old winner Takeo, spotting his stablemate a four-length head start before drawing even at the head of the stretch and pulling away.

Del Mar clockers had Honor A.P. with interim fractions of :24.80, :36.60, and an official five-eighths in 1:01.20 while galloping out to six furlongs in 1:14.20.

“From my angle he went 11 (seconds) and change or 12 the last eighth,” Shirreffs commented via text. “The work was practice.”

Unbeaten (2-for-2) Cezanne and Thousand Words, winner of the Grade II Los Alamitos Futurity in December and Grade III Robert B. Lewis in February, worked side-by-side for six furlongs in 1:13.80.

Hollywood Gold Cup winner Improbable, being targeted for the Whitney Stakes at Saratoga a week away, was clocked in 1:25.80 in a work slightly compromised when another horse ran loose and alarm sirens were sounded.

“The track I think is a little slow today, but I'm pleased with all of them,” Baffert said. “The loose horse screwed up Improbable's work, but he'll be all right.”

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Woodbine’s Minimum Weight Raised to 118

The minimum weight for jockeys will be raised to 118 pounds at Canada’s Woodbine Racetrack, effective Thursday, Aug. 6, in conjunction with Condition Book 4. Woodbine Entertainment made the announcement Saturday in consultation with the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association of Ontario (HBPA) with a statement that “the health and welfare of our jockeys was the driving factor for this decision, and the new base weight aligns with racing jurisdictions in Kentucky, Florida, and New York.”

Depending on conditions and age, top weights will be up to 125 pounds. Stakes and handicap races will still be subject to assigned weights by Woodbine’s racing secretary.

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