The Rainbow 6, solved by one lucky bettor for a Maryland state-record $547,686.94 payday Saturday, returned $980.54 in one of three mandatory payouts on Sunday's closing day program of the Preakness Meet at historic Pimlico Race Course.
Multiple tickets were sold with all six winners in Sunday's Rainbow 6, which had a pool of $96,427. Maryland's previous Rainbow 6 payout record of $479,801.24 was set May 26, 2022.
The Rainbow 6 had gone unsolved for 13 consecutive racing days since a $364.74 mandatory payout May 7 on closing day of Laurel Park's spring meet, growing the carryover jackpot to $496,821.98 before Saturday's record payout. Introduced in Maryland April 2, 2015, on opening day of Pimlico's spring meet, the state-record Rainbow 6 carryover reached $1,435,080.75 over 27 consecutive racing programs before a mandatory payout of $31,028.08 to multiple ticketholders July 4, 2021.
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. However, on days when a mandatory payout is scheduled, the entire pool is shared by those holding tickets with the most winners.
The Jackpot Super High Five, which takes place in Race 6 every live racing day, saw $1,214,333 of new money bet on top of a $490,727.68 carryover from Saturday's program. It had gone unsolved for nine consecutive racing days before Sunday's $4,510.60 mandatory payout to multiple winning tickets.
Launched April 1, on opening day of Laurel's spring meet, the Jackpot Super High Five was last hit for a $10,383.50 payout May 14 at Pimlico. In the Jackpot Super High Five, the jackpot is paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with each of the first five finishers 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 finishers while 50 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
If there is no ticket with all five finishers in exact order, the entire pool will be carried over to the next day's Jackpot Super High Five. Similar to the Rainbow 6, on days when a mandatory payout is scheduled the entire pool is shared by those holding tickets with the most winners.
The mandatory payout in Sunday's Late Pick 5 was $309.25.
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