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Gulfstream Park: Guaranteed $1.4-Million Rainbow 6 Jackpot Thursday; Mandatory Payout Saturday

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $1.4 million Thursday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved for the 11th racing day in a row Wednesday, when multiple tickets with all six winners were each worth $14,488.28.

A mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 pool is scheduled for Saturday.

The Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot is usually 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 usually goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool. However, on mandatory-payout days, the entire pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the six-race sequence.

Thursday's Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 5-10, highlighted by the Race 9 feature, a five-furlong optional claiming allowance on turf. Tiger Blood is scheduled to seek his 20^th career victory against six rivals.

There will also be a carryover of $12,612.49 in the $1 Super Hi-5 wager for Thursday's opener going 1 1/8 miles on the grass.

WHO'S HOT: Leading rider Luis Saez made three visits to the Gulfstream winner's circle after scoring aboard Raulito ($5.40) in Race 1, Corey ($7.60) in Race 6 and Shootin the Breeze ($7.80) in Race 8.

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Rising Star Headed To Stakes Company

‘TDN Rising Star‘ Caddo River (Hard Spun), who broke his maiden by 9 1/2 lengths over Churchill’s one-turn mile Nov. 15, is being pointed for a sophomore debut in the $150,000 Smarty Jones S. at Oaklawn Park Jan. 22.

Bred and raced by John Ed Anthony’s Shortleaf Stable and trained by Brad Cox, the son of Pangburn (Congrats) made his first two career starts going seven furlongs on the New York circuit, finishing a debut second at Saratoga Sept. 5 before filling the same spot at Belmont Park Nov. 11. He made all the running last time, stopping the clock in a very strong 1:35.22.

Cox believes the best is yet to come.

“He’s a very good colt,” Cox told the Oaklawn notes team. “He ran against two really good colts in New York. He was able to break his maiden, one turn at Churchill. He’s big, tall, rangy, leggy colt. I really do think that he’s going to be better around two turns. He’s got what I think it takes to be a serious horse. He’s got speed and he can carry it.”

Since shipping in from Kentucky, Caddo River has logged a pair of breezes over the Oaklawn main track, including a half-mile drill that was timed in :48 flat (3/87) Jan. 3.

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Chasing Moments Tops CTBA January Mixed Sale At $70,000

Chasing Moments, a daughter of Orb in foal to California stallion Stay Thirsty, sold for $70,000 to top Wednesday's California Thoroughbred Breeders Association January Mixed Sale at Fairplex Park.

Marcelo Aguera purchased the 6-year-old mare, who is a half-sister to the Grade 2 winner Authenticity, herself the dam of stakes winner Hanalei Moon.

The second-highest priced purchase was a yearling filly by Malibu Moon, out of the Bluegrass Cat mare Brush Strokes, purchased for $60,000 by Double Chevron Racing.

Aguera also made a pair of $40,000 purchases – Mobilize, a War Front mare in foal to Stay Thirsty, and Wedding Dress, a Medaglia d'Oro mare in foal to Stay Thirsty.

The 72 horses sold for a gross of $574,100, an average of $7,974 and median of $3,450.

To view the auction's full results, click here.

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The Jockey Club President Jim Gagliano Joins TDN Writers’ Room

There are few positions more prominent or scrutinized in racing than president of The Jockey Club, and that goes double for years as tumultuous for the sport as 2019 and 2020 were. With a plethora of game-changing topics to discuss, The Jockey Club’s president and chief operations office Jim Gagliano joined the TDN Writers’ Room presented by Keeneland Wednesday in the show’s first episode of 2021. Appearing as the Green Group Guest of the Week, Gagliano discussed how the industry can potentially pay for the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act, the rationale behind a 140-mare cap for stallions, racing’s inability to permanently do away with repeat-offender trainers and more.

“I don’t think it should come out of the horseplayers’ pockets,” Gagliano said of the HISA cost. “Every state funds its regulation differently. The problem that we faced when we were considering that matter, is there’s really no one-size-fits-all that we could push down to the states. The most important thing we want to do is make sure we capture first the current expenses, and then that those were brought forward. After that, the Authority will work with each state and through its racing commission to determine what the number is. I suggest the simplest way is to share [the costs] between the tracks and the horsemen. But honestly, there’s a lot of details to be considered.”

Now that the HISA is a reality, Gagliano was asked what else The Jockey Club will focus on in the coming years.

“There’s plenty,” he said. “How we market the sport. The opportunity of television, which thank goodness, during this pandemic, to see the amount of live televised hours of horse racing has been a godsend. We’ve talked about scheduling. We need to put the product in a place where it can have the best showcase. Other areas: HISA is going to put USADA into a role and there are now rules that will be in place that will change the sport, we believe. Investigations, that’s something that racing has not done very well over the last bunch of years. I anticipate The Jockey Club will continue to invest in those kinds of resources to make sure that things we don’t want to happen in our sport, don’t happen.”

Elsewhere on the show, in the West Point Thoroughbreds news segment, the crew reacted to some huge performances on the track over the past few weeks and the surprisingly positive handle numbers in 2020, plus host Joe Bianca announces that he and producer Patty Wolfe have won an Eclipse Award. Click here to watch the podcast; click here for the audio-only version.

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