A mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be held Sunday at Gulfstream Park, where the pool is expected to approach $4 million or more.
The Rainbow 6 has gone unsolved for 24 consecutive racing days since a lucky bettor hit for a $182,098 jackpot payoff April 28. The carryover jackpot pool stood at $604,101 following Saturday's program.
Sunday's Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 9-14 on a 14-race program that will get under way at noon.
The potential life-changing sequence will be kicked off by a $10,000 claiming race on turf in Race 9. A full field of 4-year-olds and up will contest the mile race, which figures to be widely viewed as a 'spread' race by handicappers hoping to get past the tough first leg of the Rainbow 6 before keeping their tickets more manageable in less-contentious legs.
Mark Casse-trained Deal Go Down is scheduled to make his 2022 debut in Race 10, a seven-furlong $20,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up. The son of Cairo Prince, who has been training forwardly at Casse's Ocala farm, debuted at Gulfstream with a victory last year. He is rated at 10-1 in the morning line in an evenly matched nine-horse field.
Matthew O'Connor-trained Isabella's Dream drops from optional claiming allowance company to run for a $12,500 claiming tag in Race 11, a 1 1/16-mile turf event, in Race 11. The 3-1 morning-line favorite, who set the pace before tiring last time, broke his maiden in $40,000 optional claiming maiden company by 2 ¼ lengths in his previous start. Isabella's dream faces 11 rivals in another evenly matched contest.
Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado will guide Gustavo Delgado-trained Our Fantasy in Race 12, a seven-furlong optional claiming starter allowance for Florida-bred fillies and mares. The 5-2 morning-line favorite was claimed for $20,000 out of a third-place finish for a trainer with positive off-the-claim stats. Kathleen O'Connell-trained American of Course will seek to improve off a string of three runner-up finishes.
The Rainbow 6 will be headlined in Race 13 by the $65,000 Soldier's Dancer, a 7 ½-furlong turf stakes for Florida-breds on turf. Freedom Matters, who has finished first or second in 19 of 37 career starts, is rated as the 7-2 morning-line favorite in a well-balanced field of 9. Freedom Matters is trained by Saffie Joseph Jr., who will also send out stakes veteran Max K.O. Trainer Michael Maker will also be represented by a pair of contenders – Alabama Slammer, an allowance winner at Tampa Bay Downs last time out, and Me and Mr. C, who captured the Mr. Steele stakes last time out.
Rainbow 6 handicappers figure to face a strong challenge in Race 14, a mile-and-70-yard $20,000 claiming race on Tapeta that drew a full field of 12 plus and also-eligible. Michael Maker-trained Sinfulicious, a third-place finisher against slightly better last time out, is the 3-1 morning-line favorite. The 4-year-old son of Twirling Candy will be ridden by Tyler Conner, the Penn National-based jockey who has been riding this weekend at Gulfstream with success.
The Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot is usually only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70% of that day's pool usually goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30% is carried over to the jackpot pool. However, on mandatory-payout days, the entire pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the six-race sequence.
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