The 95th Academy Awards arrives Sunday, and horse racing aficionados can revel in the implicit recognition the sport of kings annually receives when journalists and film buffs adopt racing’s handicapping lingo to forecast the night’s winners. Actual awards for horse movies have been harder to come by, so, in advance of Oscar night, the team at America’s Best Racing came up with some achievements in the field of equine-related celluloid that we believe were overlooked by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences the first time around and deserve recognition.
Month: March 2023
Jockey Mullins gives a tour of dad Willie’s famous stables and a glimpse of horses chasing history
Racemail columnist LIZZIE KELLY joins the workforce at the all-powerful Willie Mullins stable, which houses 12 favourites for the 28-race Cheltenham Festival.
Pletcher: Forte Likely Bound For Florida Derby
Fountain of Youth (G2) winner Forte, last year's 2-year-old champion male and the current Kentucky Derby (G1) favorite, will most likely make his next start in the $1-million Curlin Florida Derby (G1), trainer Todd Pletcher told Daily Racing Form.
Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable's Forte made an auspicious 3-year-old debut Saturday at Gulfstream Park, where he scored a dominating 4½-length victory under Irad Ortiz Jr. in the Fountain of Youth.
“The Florida Derby is what we kind of talked about going into the Fountain of Youth and everything coming out of the race would indicate that's what we'll do,” Pletcher said told the Form on Sunday morning. “Two breezes before the race makes sense, and then that will give him five weeks until Churchill Downs.”
Forte, a Violence colt who is based at Palm Beach Downs training center, won four of five starts during his championship juvenile season that he launched with a 7¾-length victory at Belmont Park last May. After finishing fourth in the six-furlong Sanford (G2), he rallied from off the pace to win the seven-furlong Hopeful (G1) at Saratoga. He polished off a stellar campaign with a pair of off-the-pace scores around two turns in the Claiborne Breeders' Futurity (G1) at Keeneland and the FanDuel Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1).
Forte currently sits atop the Kentucky Derby Leaderboard with 90 qualifying points. The Florida Derby, set for April 1 at Gulfstream Park, offers Kentucky Derby qualifying points on a 100-40-30-20-10 scale to the top five finishers.
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Gulfstream Park: Rainbow 6 Mandatory Payout Yields Multiple $40,357 Payoffs
The mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool yielded multiple payoffs of $40,357.56 Sunday at Gulfstream Park.
The winning combination was 6-3-1-3-8-4.
Heading into Rainbow 6 wagering Sunday, there was a carryover jackpot pool of $1,369,601, which generated a handle of $5,270,988 on the popular multi-race wagers that spanned Races 6-11.
On mandatory payout days, the entire Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the six-race sequence. The 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 percent of that day's pool usually goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
The Rainbow 6 will start anew on Wednesday.
First-race post time is set for 12:40 p.m. (ET).
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