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$500,000 Rainbow 6 Jackpot Guarantee Saturday At Gulfstream; Mandatory Payouts Set For Tuesday

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $500,000 Saturday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved for the seventh consecutive racing day Friday, when multiple tickets with six winners were each worth $2,888.80.

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.

Saturday's Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 7-12 and include the $60,000 Added Elegance in Race 11. Letruska and Nonna Madeline, who finished 1-2, respectively, in an Oaklawn Park allowance in April, will have a rematch in the mile overnight stakes for fillies and mares.

Letruska has won eight of her nine lifetime races on dirt, including the Copa Invitacional del Caribe on the Dec. 8 Clasico Internacional del Caribe program at Gulfstream. Nonna Madeline has placed twice in graded stakes, including a third-place finish in the Inside Information (G2) Jan. 25 at Gulfstream.

Mandatory Payouts for Tuesday's 9-Race Card
Tuesday's special 9-race program, which will feature mandatory payouts of the Rainbow 6, Late Pick 4 and Late Pick 5, was drawn Friday.

The Rainbow 6 sequence will begin with the fourth race, a maiden claiming event over a five furlong turf course. The sequence will have three races on the turf.

NOTES: Ron Paolucci Racing, LLC's Liza Star, a 6-year-old mare trained by Peter Walder and ridden by Miguel Vasquez, won Friday's feature, a $48,000 allowance optional claiming event. Liza Star, a winner of 11 of 31 starts and seven of her last 11, covered 6 ½ furlongs in 1:16.26…Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado scored a riding double on Friday, winning back-to-back in races 5 and 6 with Customerexperience and Sailing Solo for trainers Saffie Joseph Jr. and Louie Roussel III.

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Stronach 5 Pays $4,165.20 Despite Wins By Two Heavy Favorites

Despite victories by two heavy favorites in Liza Star and Plot the Dots, Friday's Stronach 5 still rewarded bettors with winning tickets with a $4,165.20 payoff.

The national wager, with races from Laurel Park and Gulfstream Park, had a guaranteed pool of $100,000.

Friday's Stronach 5 began with Laurel Park's sixth race and an impressive victory by the 10-1 maiden Fiya, owned by The Orebanks, trained by Michael Merryman, and ridden by Feargal Lynch. The second leg of the sequence, run as Gulfstream's eighth race, was won by favored Liza Star while the third leg, run as Laurel's seventh race, was also won by the favorite, 4-5 shot Plot the Dots.

The 6-1 shot Rags for Britches won Gulfstream's ninth race, the fourth leg of Stronach 5, while the sequence wrapped up with the 7-1 shot Princess Killmain winning Laurel's eighth race.

Friday's races and sequence

  • Leg One – Laurel Park 6th Race: Fiya $22.40
  • Leg Two –Gulfstream Park 8th Race: Liza Star $4.20
  • Leg Three –Laurel Park 7th Race: Plot the Dots $3.80
  • Leg Four –Gulfstream Park 9th Race: Rags for Britches $14.80
  • Leg Five –Laurel Park 8th race: Princess Killmain $17.40

Fans can watch and wager on the action at 1/ST.COM/BET.

The Stronach 5 In the Money podcast, hosted by Jonathan Kinchen and Peter Thomas Fornatale, is posted by 2 p.m. every Thursday at InTheMoneyPodcast.com and is available on iTunes and other major podcast distributors.

The minimum wager on the multi-race, multi-track Stronach 5 is $1. If there are no tickets with five winners, the entire pool will be carried over to the next Friday.

If a change in racing surface is made after the wagering closes, each selection on any ticket will be considered a winning selection. If a betting interest is scratched, that selection will be substituted with the favorite in the win pool when wagering closes.

The Maryland Jockey Club serves as host of the Stronach 5.

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Formerly Based In Mexico, Clasico Del Caribe Winner Letruska Returns To Florida For Added Elegance

St. George Stable LLC's Letruska is set to make her return to Gulfstream Park's main track for the first time since outrunning older males during a 4 ¼-length romp at the demanding 1 ¼-mile distance last December.

The 4-year-old daughter of Super Saver, who remained undefeated in seven career starts in the Copa Invitacional del Caribe on the Dec. 8 Clasico Internacional del Caribe program, is scheduled to clash with seven other fillies and mares in Saturday's $60,000 Added Elegance at Gulfstream.

First race post for Saturday's 12-race program is noon. Six of the dozen races are scheduled for the turf, with four scheduled as part of the Rainbow 6 along with the Added Elegance.

Trainer Fausto Gutierrez had nominated Letruska to the June 11 Coaltown, an overnight handicap for 3-year-olds and up that attracted Grade 1 runners Math Wizard and Diamond Oops, but opted to wait for Saturday's mile overnight stakes for fillies and mares.

“She has worked very good. She's been very relaxed,” said Gutierrez, whose stable is now based at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream Park's satellite training facility in Palm Beach County. “I tried to run her two times, once against the boys, but in the end, I decided to wait because this race was very near. I think this is the perfect race for her.”

Although Letruska had already proven herself against males in the Copa Invitacional del Caribe, she was in receipt of a five-pound weight allowance as a 3-year-old and an eight-pound allowance as a filly.

“The last time [she ran against males] she got 13 pounds, it was a good handicap,” said Gutierrez, whose stable was primarily based in Mexico until this year.

Letruska sustained her first career loss in her turf debut in the Dec. 28 Tropical Park Oaks, in which she set a very keen early pace before tiring to 13th. The Kentucky-bred filly rebounded while returning to dirt and coming off a 3 ½-month layoff to capture an April 16 allowance at Oaklawn Park.

“She was incredible off the layoff. She ran a very high [speed] figure. She ran against very nice competition, fillies who have run in stakes,” Gutierrez said.

Letruska set a solid early pace and drew away to a 2 ¼-length victory in the 1 1/16-mile allowance in which the runner-up was Todd Pletcher-trained Nonna Madeline, a multiple graded stakes-placed filly who is also entered in Saturday's Added Elegance.

Letruska came back to sustain her first career loss on dirt April 30 at Oaklawn, tiring to third after setting a pressured pace in a mile allowance won by multiple graded-stakes winner Blamed.

“The second time she ran at Oaklawn, it was just 14 days after the first,” Gutierrez said. “It was like a stakes. Out of seven who ran six won stakes.”

Emisael Jaramillo, who was aboard for the Copa Invitacional del Caribe victory, will be back aboard Letruska, who will carry 126 pounds, four more than Nonna Madeline, Saturday.

Teresa Viola Racing Stables and St. Elias Stable's Nonna Madeline is set to make her first start since finishing second behind Letruska April 16. The 4-year-old daughter of Candy Ride had previously finished third in the Inside Information (G2) and fourth in the Hurricane Bertie (G3) after winning an allowance off a 14-month layoff during Gulfstream's Championship Meet.

Edgard Zayas is slated to ride Nonna Madeline for the first time Saturday.

Ken Copenhaver's Queen Nekia will seek to rebound from a 10th-place finish in the April 18 Apple Blossom (G1) at Oaklawn Park Saturday. The 5-year-old daughter of Harlington had previously finished third at Gulfstream in the Royal Delta (G2), beaten three-quarters of a length by victorious Cookie Dough.

Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. gave the call aboard Queen Nekia to Samy Camacho.

Irving Cowan's Remarkable Soul, Steven Dwoskin's Helping Lisa D., Starship Stables and Steven Dwoskin's Starship Bonita, Magic Stables LLC and Cairoli Racing Stable's Bella Ciao, and My Purple Haze Stables LLC's Heiressall round out the field.

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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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