May, 2023 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Six-Figure Carryovers In Thursday’s Rainbow 6, Jackpot Super High Five At Pimlico

There will be six-figure carryovers in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 and $1 Jackpot Super Hi-5 wagers when live racing returns to historic Pimlico Race Course Thursday.

Post time is 12:25 p.m.

The all-stakes Rainbow 6 anchored by the 148th Preakness Stakes (G1), Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown, went unsolved during the last live race day May 20, resulting in a carryover of $360,855. Thursday's sequence spans Races 3-8, beginning with a wide-open claiming event for 3-year-olds and up scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on the grass.

Race 4 is a maiden special weight for 2-year-old fillies sprinting 4 ½ furlongs that drew a field of nine including a pair of first-time starters from Preakness Meet-leading trainer Brittany Russell – Kellan, a daughter of Divining Rode, and the Connect filly Tina Tina Tina. The narrow 5-2 favorite is Buckin' Great, second as the favorite in her May 5 debut at Laurel Park.

Uncle Ernie, exiting back-to-back seconds in stakes races for Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness winning trainer John Servis, is the 9-5 favorite in Race 5, a third-level optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds and up sprinting six furlongs. Among his foes are 2021 Fall Highweight (G3) winner Hopeful Treasure, multiple stakes winner Witty and eight-time career winner Borracho.

Race 7 is a second-level optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds and up scheduled to sprint five furlongs on the grass. Live Fire has raced four times on the turf with three wins, all coming at five-eighths. Doctor Jeff is the 5-2 program favorite, having run third last out as the favorite in a six-furlong turf dash May 4 at Aqueduct. Zyramid owns two straight victories including a win at the course and distance last fall.

The Rainbow 6 jackpot is paid out only when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 60 percent of that day's pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners while 40 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.

The Jackpot Super High Five comes in Race 6, a six-furlong maiden claiming sprint for 3-year-olds. Ten were entered led by 3-1 morning-line favorite Pay Zone, who will break from the far outside and add blinkers following a fourth against older horses in a 6 ½-furlong maiden special weight April 15 at Gulfstream Park for trainer George Weaver.

Launched April 1 on opening day of Laurel Park's spring meet, the Jackpot Super High Five takes place in Race 6 every live race day. In the Jackpot Super High 5, the jackpot is paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with each of the first five winners in exact order. On days when there is no unique ticket, 50 percent of that day's pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with all five winners while 50 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.

If there is no ticket will all five finishers in exact order, the entire pool will be carried over to the next day's Jackpot Super High Five.

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Lightly-Raced Spirit Of Makena Faces Six Other Sprinters In Saturday’s Triple Bend

George Papaprodromou's lightly raced 5-year-old Spirit of Makena, a head shy of being unbeaten in four starts, heads a field of seven older horses going seven furlongs in Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Triple Bend Stakes at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif.

Unbeaten in two starts here this year, a six furlong allowance on Feb. 11 and most recently, the Grade 3 San Carlos Stakes at seven panels on March 11, Spirit of Makena, a full horse by Ghostzapper, will be ridden for the third consecutive time by Joe Bravo.

Owned by his breeder, Bruce Chandler, Spirit of Makena is out of the Gilded Time mare Win for M'lou. Unraced at two and three, he was a first-out maiden winner going 6 ½ furlongs on Aug. 5 at Del Mar and was then second, beaten a head in a first condition allowance going one mile Sept. 11.

Thus unbeaten sprinting, Spirit of Makena has banked $227,600.

A troubled second to world class sprinter Dr. Schivel in a six furlong classified allowance here on May 13, Peter Miller's 9-year-old gelding C Z Rocket returns on two weeks notice and with a star-studded resume that includes three graded stakes wins and earnings of $2,008,441, he has to be considered the class of the field.

A Florida-bred by City Zip, C Z Rocket is owned by Altamira Racing Stable, Madaket Stables, LLC, Gary Barber and Tom Kagele. With five career stakes wins, his overall record stands at 38-12-8-5 and he'll be ridden back by Ramon Vazquez.

A colt who showed tremendous promise as a newly turned 3-year-old, bagging victories in Santa Anita's G2 San Vicente Stakes Jan. 29 and San Felipe Stakes on March 5, 2022, Richard Mandella's Forbidden Kingdom has been winless in five subsequent starts, with his lone out this year coming in the G3 San Carlos, a race in which he finished second by 1 ½ lengths to Spirit of Makena.

With top jock Juan Hernandez again engaged, Forbidden Kingdom could be poised for a breakout performance. A 4-year-old colt by 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah out of the Five Star Day mare Just Louise, Forbidden Kingdom is owned by My Racehorse and Spendthrift Farm, LLC. With an overall mark of 10-3-3-2, he has earnings of $547,500.

THE GRADE 2 TRIPLE BEND WITH JOCKEYS & WEIGHTS IN POST POSITION ORDER

Race 8 of 9 Approximate post time 4:30 p.m. PT

Midnight Mammoth—Kyle Frey—120
Desmond Doss—Umberto Rispoli—120
Positivity—Tiago Pereira—120
Forbidden Kingdom—Juan Hernandez—120
Howbeit—Mike Smith—122
Spirit of Makena—Joe Bravo—122
C Z Rocket—Ramon Vazquez–120

First post time for a nine-race card on Saturday is at 1 p.m. with admission gates opening at 11 a.m.

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Son Of Lady Marian Debuts At ParisLongchamp

Observations on the European Racing Scene turns the spotlight on the best European races of the day, highlighting well-pedigreed horses early in their careers, horses of note returning to action and young runners that achieved notable results in the sales ring. Thursday's Observations features a son of G1 Prix de l'Opera heroine Lady Marian (Ger) (Nayef).

18.10 Parislongchamp, Cond, €30,000, 2yo, c/g, 6 1/2fT
WILL SCARLET (GB) (Masar {Ire}) is a surprisingly early juvenile starter, given that he is by the Derby hero out of the track's G1 Prix de l'Opera heroine Lady Marian (Ger) (Nayef), so Godolphin's February-foaled bay must have shown Andre Fabre something to suggest he is more precocious than his pedigree suggests. One of eight in the line-up, he is also a half-brother to the operation's G2 Grand Prix de Deauville and G2 Dubai City Of Gold winner Loxley (Ire) by Masar's sire New Approach (Ire) whose own career began in the October of his 2-year-old season.

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Feed the Flame to be Supplemented to Prix du Jockey Club

Undefeated Feed the Flame (GB) (Kingman {GB}) will be supplemented to the June 4 G1 Prix du Jockey Club, confirmed racing manager Gerard Larrieu, who purchased the colt for €270,000 at Arqana August on behalf of Jean-Louis Bouchard.

Named a TDN Rising Star following an eye-catching 5 1/2-length victory going 10 1/2 furlongs at ParisLongchamp on Apr. 9, the Pascal Bary trainee returned to make it two straight with a victory at that same venue on Apr. 27.

Christophe Soumillon, who was aboard for both of the colt's prior wins, is slated to ride in the French Classic.

“The foal turned out to be very late [Apr. 4] but Pascal Bary has always loved him,” Larrieu told Jour de Galop. “He thought he would run as [a] 2-year-old, then he grew a lot and we gave him time. We didn't consider him for the Classics because we thought, at the time of registration, that it would happen too quickly. But he has developed very well in a short time. It's rare to see a foal able to change so quickly. Feed the Flame is still very immature and he will face the Jockey Club with several questions. We don't know what he has beaten. But the visual impressions [of his prior races] were magnificent. They can be subjective but his [limited body of] work has been excellent. We don't know what it's worth, so his limits are unknown.”

Hoping that history will repeat itself, Larrieu recalled another late foal that took the G1 Prix de Diane in June following only two prior starts.

“And if the Jockey Club becomes a kind of preparatory to the [G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe] as was the case for Treve (Fr) [Motivator (GB)], that's fine with me!”

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