Friday’s Rainbow 6 To Have $400K Guarantee At Gulfstream; Mandatory Payout Set For Tuesday

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $400,000 Friday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved for the sixth consecutive racing day Wednesday, when multiple tickets with five of six winners were each worth $3,049.80.

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 also be a Super Hi-5 carryover of $3,398.92 heading into Friday's program.

Gulfstream has scheduled a special live-racing program on Tuesday, when mandatory payouts of the Rainbow 6, Late Pick 5 and the Super Hi-5 will be offered on the final day of Florida's fiscal year.

Zayas Hitting His Stride with a Big Boost from Pletcher
Edgard Zayas teamed with trainer Todd Pletcher for a victory with a promising Florida Sire Stakes-eligible juvenile for the second racing day in a row at Gulfstream Park Wednesday.

After guiding Tamiami to a late-rallying triumph in a maiden special weight race for 2-year-old fillies on Sunday, Zayas returned to the Gulfstream winner's circle after riding Son of a Beast to a gutsy front-running score against seven Florida-bred 2-year-olds Wednesday.

The victory aboard the son of The Big Beast was Zayas' 58th of the Spring Meet at Gulfstream to place him at the top of the jockey standings. The defending Spring Meet riding champion has received considerable support from Pletcher, the leading trainer who left a talent-deep string at Gulfstream after wrapping up his 16th Championship Meet training title March 29.

“I appreciate the opportunity he's always given me. He's always given me an opportunity on his horses,” Zayas said. “We just got to keep working as hard as we can for him and hopefully stay lucky.”

Son of a Beast, who is owned by breeders Jettany Thoroughbred Corp. and JAG Racing, was rushed to the lead shortly after the start of Wednesday's five-furlong Race 2, encountered heavy pressure from Tiger on the turn and through the stretch and battled his way to victory by three-quarters of a length.

“He's a big horse for that distance. I think he's definitely going to go longer. He broke good and I had to rush him a little bit, but once he got into stride he had a beautiful stride,” Zayas said. “Once he got pressure from that other horse, it helped him. It encouraged him to finish up strong.”

Son of a Beast, who ran five furlongs in 59.06 seconds as the 3-2 favorite, established himself as a prominent prospect for the 2020 Florida Sire Stakes series that is scheduled to get under way Aug. 1.

As for Zayas, who will celebrate his 27th birthday Saturday, he's looking forward to building on his Spring Meet momentum.

“I'm hitting my stride again with all the opportunities from the owners and trainers,” he said. “Hopefully, this is the time to hit my stride and keep it going for a long time.”

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Canadian Champion Holy Helena Confirmed In Foal To Quality Road

Holy Helena, a multiple Grade 2 winner and Canada's champion 3-year-old filly of 2017, has entered the Adena Springs broodmare band, and was confirmed in-foal on Wednesday to Quality Road.

The 6-year-old Ghostzapper mare was unraced in 2020, but was still in training through the end of May, turning in her final workout at Palm Meadows Training Center in Florida on May 27.

Holy Helena retired with eight wins in 20 career starts for earnings of $1,330,018, racing as a homebred for Adena Springs' Ontario base, and for trainer Jimmy Jerkens.

Unraced at two, Holy Helena broke her maiden in her second career start at Belmont Park, and parlayed that into victories in two of the most prestigious races for Canadian-breds. First, she bested the country's top sophomore fillies in the Woodbine Oaks, then she became the 36th filly to win the Queen's Plate. She added a runner-up effort in the Grade 3 Ontario Derby before the end of the season to clinch honors as Canada's champion 3-year-old filly in 2017.

Holy Helena made the leap onto the U.S. scene in the seasons to come as a turf runner, racking up two victories in the G3 The Very One Stakes to go along with wins in the G2 Sheepshead Bay Stakes at Belmont Park and the G2 Dance Smartly Stakes at Woodbine.

Quality Road, a Grade 1-winning son of Elusive Quality, stands at Lane's End in Versailles, Ky., for an advertised fee of $200,000.

The 14-year-old has emerged as one of North America's highest-ranking sires on the racetrack and in the auction ring, with notable foals including champions Abel Tasman and Caledonia Road, as well as Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner City of Light and Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Hootenanny.

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Tom Amoss Joins TDN Writers’ Room to Talk No Parole, Serengeti Empress, Racing Broadcasts and More

With a newly-minted Grade I winner in his barn and another set to hit the track this weekend, trainer Tom Amoss joined the TDN Writers’ Room podcast presented by Keeneland Wednesday morning for an illuminating discussion that covered a wide variety of topics, big and small. Calling in via Zoom as the Green Group Guest of the Week, Amoss explained the success of barn stars No Parole (Violence) and Serengeti Empress (Alternation), talked about what he’s learned from branching out into broadcasting and offered his take on why racing has a difficult time catching cheating trainers.

“When No Parole was first making his debut against state-bred company at the Fair Grounds, I recall vividly calling [owner] Maggi Moss and telling her, ‘Hey, this isn’t just a good Louisiana-bred sprinter, this is a very good racehorse,'” Amoss said. “He’s now a Grade I winner, he’s undefeated going one turn in four starts. In the back of our minds, if the horse stays healthy and does good, when he gets to the end of his 3-year-old year, where his maturity level will catch up to the older horses, the Breeders’ Cup Sprint is a possibility. And of course, we think he’d make a heck of a stallion. He’s gorgeous, good looking. He just won an important stallion race [Saturday’s GI Woody Stephens S.]. So we’ve got that on our mind as well.”

Serengeti Empress, who provided Amoss with a signature victory when capturing the GI Kentucky Oaks last spring, prepares to take on champion Midnight Bisou (Midnight Lute) this Saturday in the GII Fleur de Lis S. at Churchill Downs.

“She’s run well here, not only in the Kentucky Oaks, but the year before, when she won her first graded stake as a 2-year-old. So all those things led us to want to try this race,” Amoss said. “I’ve got tremendous respect for the champion, Midnight Bisou, and I know it has to be our best day to beat her. But the game plan is simple. To [jockey Joe] Talamo, I’m simply going to say, ‘Make the lead. Make the lead no matter what.’ And then that’s where Serengeti’s heart gets big and she does what she does best, use her speed to try to bury the field. That’s a big, big statement when you’re going against a champion, but we’ll see what happens.”

Amoss has gained attention outside of his training accomplishments for his role as an analyst on the NYRA-produced America’s Day at the Races broadcast on Fox Sports 1. He talked about how his impressions of the sport have shifted with his new part-time job and the importance of racing’s presentation in the current climate.

“Right now, horse racing has this window to attract some new people to the sport, but no one’s going to turn on a show where the talk is so over their head that they can’t follow along,” Amoss said. “So I think it’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our industry to present the sport to a group of people that don’t know anything about it and maybe get them attracted to it. What have I learned from doing the show? I’ve learned to watch my words, but not stay silent. If there’s something I believe, no matter whose feelings I might hurt, I’m out to tell you what I see and what I observe. So I’ve learned to have a thick skin as far as that goes, but to say it in the right way.”

Elsewhere on the show, the writers recapped the GI Belmont S. and the breathtaking performance of Gamine (Into Mischief) in the GI Acorn S. and looked forward to another big weekend of racing. In the West Point Thoroughbreds news segment, the crew discussed the developments in fans being allowed on track in some parts of the country and whether or not that will extend to the GI Kentucky Derby. Click here to listen to the podcast and click here to watch it on Vimeo.

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