Gulfstream Park: Thursday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Guaranteed At $700,000

 

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $700,000 Thursday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved Wednesday for the sixth racing day since a March 6 mandatory payout. Multiple tickets with all six winners were each worth $500.22 Wednesday.

The jackpot pool 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.

WHO'S HOT: Jockey Tyler Gaffalione, fresh off a three-win Sunday, scored a double aboard Lease ($8.60) in Race 3 and Berhanu ($16.60) in Race 6.

Emisael Jaramillo doubled aboard Nimble Beast ($5.80) in Race 2 and Foolish Heart ($4.60) in Race 8. Paco Lopez also rode a pair of winners, scoring aboard Hera ($7) in Race 7 and Liesel ($5) in Race 10.

Trainer Carlos David saddled back-to-back winners, scoring with Hera ($7) in Race 7 and Foolish Heart ($4.60) in Race 8.

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Exercise Rider Becomes TikTok Sensation

How do we market racing to the younger generation?

It seems to be the million-dollar question, but an exercise rider named Electra Boone may be nearing an answer. In just two years, Boone has reached an audience of millions on TikTok.

The assistant trainer for Palm Meadows-based trainer Carlos David posts videos on the popular social media platform showcasing her daily life on the backstretch. Today her account, @electraboone, has 150,500 followers and has received 6.4 million likes. Each of her videos receive thousands of views and some of her most popular clips have reached up to 10 million viewers.

TikTok, a short-form, video-sharing social media network, has exploded in popularity in the past year. Although known as the app for Gen Z, TikTok has over a billion monthly active users of all ages. Unlike many social media channels where a user's feed is based on the people they choose to follow, TikTok users scroll through videos created by strangers from around the globe based on a feed individually formulated by the app's algorithm.

Boone said she originally started her TikTok account to create fun videos with a friend just as the app was on the verge of popularity in the U.S.

“I got TikTok two or three years ago when it wasn't anything special,” she recalled. “I just made videos for fun. I had maybe 10 followers and was just posting videos of my dog or a random horse. My friend and I started making cool horse racing videos and we randomly had one video blow up really big and we both gained a huge following at the same time.”

Boone realized they might be on to something, so she began editing her videos further and getting more creative with her content. Soon, she had gained nearly a hundred thousand followers.

“I was thrown off by that because I was just doing it for fun; I wasn't trying to get attention from it,” she said.

Boone's videos range from hilarious to artistic to informative. Her audience has grown attached to some of the stable's stars with Boone often posting progress videos on many of their trainees. One dark bay mare, Jost Sayin (Big Drama), is known as the 'Black Beauty of TikTok'.

Viewers followed the saga of Boone's favorite horse getting claimed and later returning to the David stable, but were confused by the concept of the claiming game. In response to many questions from her followers, Boone made three extensive videos teaching the ins and outs of claiming.

Many viewers ask questions based off Boone's videos and she will post response videos explaining everything from why horses wear nasal flair strips, how to wrap a leg, or why a horse is hosed off before a race.

“I get a lot of questions regarding how to become a jockey,” she said. “A lot of people want to ride and they ask me about weight and height requirements because they've always been told they have to be the size of a jockey to ride, which isn't true if you just want to gallop. So I try to answer the questions on how I got started riding and the best ways to get into it and I try to steer them on the right path in that way.”

Boone had no familial connection to racing when she first started her career in the industry as a photographer at Churchill Downs as a teenager. She had ridden horses all her life and dreamed of one day becoming an exercise rider. She moved on to a job as a hotwalker and then later a groom, working for several trainers in Kentucky, New York and California. After making a trip to Dubai at the age of 17, she was ready to take the next step towards her goal.

“Dubai was a surreal, crazy experience but when I came back I was so tired of hot walking and ponying, I just wanted to ride,” she recalled.”The man that galloped California Chrome, Dehigi Gladney, is a really good rider and runs Doug O'Neil's baby farm in California. I started breaking babies there and he taught me everything. He built my foundation as a rider.”

After six months, the racing stewards came out to the farm to give their approval for Boone to move on to the main track.

“Once I started galloping on the track, I rode for a lot of different trainers,” she said. “I went to Saratoga, which I probably wasn't ready for, but I did it anyways because I'm pretty headstrong. I rode for Todd Pletcher, Brad Cox and Jeremiah Englehart and it was really neat to see how the bigger barns work.”

A year an a half ago, Boone decided to move to Florida despite the fact that she'd never before visited the state. But the decision proved favorable when she met her boss, and now boyfriend, trainer Carlos David.

“He completely changed my form and made me a better rider. He has taught me everything,” she said.

Although Boone's TikTok influence has grown significantly since her move to Florida, she still says that she uses the social media platform as a personal account and doesn't hesitate to post fun, non-equine content.

“It's more of a personal account,” she said. “I don't have much of a filter and will be very straightforward with people about it. I try to be very positive on the app and shift people away from the idea that horses are mistreated. There are a lot of bad apples in the industry, but I try to show that there are a lot of good trainers out there too.”

Still, Boone said she does receive a lot of hate and negative feedback because of her involvement in racing.

Boone said her goal on TikTok is to stay positive and be an advocate for the industry. | photo courtesy Electra Boone

 

“A lot of the comments I get are super nasty because people have completely the wrong idea about the industry,” she said. “A lot of people have no idea and assume horses are slaughtered when they're done with racing. So I try to show how we re-home all of our horses to good homes and how they look now.”

She added that she has had to learn to cope with the ongoing malicious comments.

“I think the hate has gotten to me a bit,” she admitted. “I try to take a step back from TikTok because there is a lot of hate, but then I come back and bring a lot more content.”

TikTok's algorithm offers some insight on Boone's audience.

“I mostly have female followers and I do get a lot of horse people follow me,” she said. ” It's a lot of younger people, I would say mostly 14 and 15-year-olds, but I do get a lot of adults and a lot of equestrians that do show jumping and stuff like that. Everyone is super curious. From what I've gained from TikTok, I've learned there are so many people who have the wrong idea about horse racing and actually have no idea how it works. I try to inform them in that way and that's how I use my platform.”

As Boone's account has grown in popularity, she is now considered a TikTok influencer and gets paid for the videos she posts based on the number of views they receive.

“I never expected to be paid to post things that make me happy. I just post whatever I'm feeling and I get paid for it, usually like $200 a month.”

Boone offered her insight on how the industry can best bring in a new audience based on her experiences.

“I think the biggest thing is people want to be exposed to what's happening and how our days go,” she said. “I've had countless people ask me to make a YouTube channel and show a whole day of what I do. I think my race day videos get so much attention because I'm showing every aspect from bridling the horse, getting him ready, saddling and everything else. People want to see everything to do with the horse. Racing coverage, you don't get to see much of the actual animal, but people want to really see what we do with them. Social media is huge. People want to see more videos of the backside.”

While Boone has fulfilled and surpassed her dream of becoming an exercise rider, she said she now has new dreams in the making as an advocate for the industry on TikTok.

“I'd like to take it bigger and have a more positive voice,” she said. “I'm trying to bring in younger people. That's my big thing is making that good impression about the industry on younger people.”

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High Noon Rider Uncorks 60-1 Shocker In Claiming Crown Emerald

GenStar Thoroughbreds' High Noon Rider, having spent the summer and early fall on the road, returned home to register the biggest win of his 55-race career with a shocking 50-1 upset of the $95,000 Claiming Crown Emerald Saturday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.

The 1 1/16-mile Emerald on turf for 3-year-olds and up which have started for a claiming price of $25,000 or less in 2019-20 was the fifth of nine starter stakes on the $835,000 Claiming Crown program.

This marked the ninth straight year at Gulfstream and 22nd overall for the Claiming Crown, created in 1999 to celebrate the blue-collar horses that are the foundation of the racing industry nationwide.

It was the first career Claiming Crown victory for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. The runner-up, 2-1 favorite Temple, was one of five horses in the field trained by Mike Maker, the event's all-time leader with 18 wins including seven in the Emerald.

“We're just thankful,” Joseph said. “We've claimed horses that won graded-stakes, but had never won a Claiming Crown race. It's good to get it done finally. He's a cool, old horse. To be honest, I didn't think he was coming in at his best so the confidence wasn't there. We're thankful and blessed. He stepped up and ran the race of his life today.”

Jockey Edgard Zayas settled High Noon Rider well behind Grade 3-winning stablemate Tusk, racing for the first time in 11 months, who posted fractions of 25.10 and 48.77 seconds pressed by Maker-trained Hieroglyphics and Over the Channel three wide. Hierolyphics assumed the top spot on the turn and went six furlongs in 1:11.74 with Over the Channel poised to strike, but Zayas worked his way outside and High Noon Rider powered through the stretch once in the clear.

“Saffie told me before the race this horse had a really good kick on him,” Zayas said. “Once on the turn, I cut the corner and I was following Temple through the corner. I knew Tyler had a lot of horse and he was the horse to follow, really. I was just trying to save enough until I got into the stretch and once he got into the clear he kicked on really hard from there.”

It was the sixth win with one second and one third from 10 lifetime tries at Gulfstream for High Noon Rider, an 8-year-old Distorted Humor gelding whose last victory came in a 1 1/8-mile optional claimer June 28 over the course. The victory pushed his career bankroll over the $600,000 mark.

“He's just a horse for course, honestly. If you see his numbers before he left Gulfstream this year, they were good. Then we got ambitious. We went all around with him and he kind of lost his way. Today, he ran back his best race,” Joseph said. “I got so excited jumping up, my chest was hurting me after. Edgard gave him a dream trip, saved every kind of ground and got him out when he needed to.”

Maker-trained horses finished second through fifth, as Temple and defending champion Muggsamatic dead-heated for second with Artie's Rumor fourth and Hieroglyphics fifth.

Defending Riding Champ Ortiz, Krsto Skye Claim Express
Krsto Skye, second in September in the Smile Sprint (G3) and third last time out in the De Francis (G3), led gate-to-wire under jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. to win the $75,000 Express, covering six furlongs in 1:10.14.

Owned by Daniel Feit and Carlos David and trained by David, Krsto Skye broke from the rail and set fractions of :22.35 and :45 before driving home 1 1/4 lengths in front of Whyruawesome. for his 14th victory in 61 starts. David claimed the 8-year-old gelding in February for $16,000 out of a five-furlong turf race at Gulfstream.

For Ortiz, it was his first win of the Championship Meet. He is the two-time defending riding champion.

“It feels great to be back at Gulfstream,” Ortiz said. “It feels great to have the support from the owners and trainers here. This is a nice horse. Carlos told me to let him do his thing in you can control the pace from the inside post. He put me in a good position, so I just held it there and when it was time to go he responded very well.”

The race was for horses that have started for an $8,000 claiming price at any time during their careers.

Avant Garde Gets Up in Time for Rapid Transit Win
Gelfenstein Farm LLC's Avant Garde, a 3-year-old gelded son of Tonalist, drove up the rail under jockey Leonel Reyes to win the $85,000 Rapid Transit by a half-length over Town Classic.

Trained by Jesus Lander, Avant Garde's only loss since claimed by Lander for $10,000 in June was a fourth-place finish Sept. 27 in the Oklahoma Derby (G3).

Avant Garde broke second to last but was moved up quickly to fourth by Reyes down the backstretch while Fix Me a Sandwich was taking the field through the opening quarter in :22.14. Entering the stretch, Town Classic took the lead after moving three-wide around the turn, but Reyes and Avant Garde drove to the front in the final 50 yards along the rail for the win, covering seven furlongs in 1:21.98.

The Rapid Transit was open to horses who had started for a claiming price of $16,000 or less over the last two years.

Frost of Frippery Takes the Iron Horse
Frost or Frippery, a 7-year-old gelding trained by Brad Cox, shipped in from Kentucky to win the $75,000 Iron Horse over a late-closing Bobby G. The victory was jockey Luis Saez's sixth of the afternoon. The victory for the son of Lewis Michael was No. 21. The gelding has now placed first, second or third in 46 of 66 career starts.

Frost or Frippery, owned by Steve Landers Racing LLC, covered the 1 1/16 mile in 1:44.57.

The Iron Horse was open to horses who had started for $8,000 or less during their careers.

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Hot Blooded Looking To Heat Up Again In Juvenile Turf At Gulfstream Park West

Palm Beach Racing Partnership's stakes winner Hot Blooded, once under consideration for the Breeders' Cup, ends a 12-week gap between starts when he makes his return in Saturday's $60,000 Juvenile Turf at Gulfstream Park West.

By Declaration of War, Hot Blooded has raced exclusively at Gulfstream Park in three starts. He debuted running fourth against fellow Florida-breds June 24 after bobbling and having to steady at the start, returning four weeks later to graduate in a seven-furlong maiden special weight that was rained off the grass.

Hot Blooded was then stepped up into stakes company in the one-mile Proud Man Aug. 29. Under Emisael Jaramillo, who rides back from outside Post 10, Hot Blooded settled off the early pace before tipping outside to take a short lead into the stretch, drawing clear to win by 2 1/4 lengths.

Trainer Carlos David said the connections thought enough of Hot Blooded to plot out a course to the Breeders' Cup that included a start in the Oct. 4 Grade 2 Bourbon Stakes, which offered the winner automatic entry to the Nov. 6 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf, both races at Keeneland.

A minor mishap at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream's satellite training facility in Palm Beach County where David is based, nixed the idea.

“We had a little hiccup with him,” David said. “He needed to go to Keeneland the first week of October and he got loose and just got scraped and banged up a little bit so we had to pass on the Breeders' Cup. Obviously, the Bourbon was a 'Win and You're In' but, unfortunately, we couldn't do it. We decided to just stay here and train him toward this race. He's doing really good, really good.”

Hot Blooded has worked twice at Palm Meadows since overcoming his setback, half-mile breezes in 49.80 second Oct. 24 and 49.30 seconds Nov. 1.

“Since he got loose and got banged up just days before he would have gone out [to Kentucky], we had to just take it easy with him and try to get him back to his form,” David said. “He's had a couple of good workouts. This seems like a logical spot. It's a good race for him to come back.”

Stonehedge's Seazan is entered to make his turf debut after finishing third in the final two legs of the Florida Sire Stakes, the Aug. 29 Affirmed and the Sept. 26 In Reality. The son of Khozan has yet to finish worse than third in four starts, including a maiden special weight triumph Aug. 1 and more than $118,000 in purse earnings.

Jerry Campbell's Castle King is also multiple stakes-placed, having run third in the Proud Man behind Hot Blooded and seven-furlong Armed Forces Sept. 26. Most recently, the Verrazano gelding was second in an optional claiming allowance Oct. 26 over the Gulfstream West turf.

Armed Forces runner-up Fulmini, Catching Fish, Chess's Dream, El Sicario, Light Us Up and Toretto complete the field. Big Thorn is entered for main track only.

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