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Curlin Florida Derby weekend and the 2021-2022 Championship Meet will wrap up in grand style at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., Sunday with a mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool.

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved Saturday for the 13th racing day in a row, leaving a jackpot pool of $701,438 for mandatory payout day.

The Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 6-11, kicked off by a $12,500 claiming race for non-winners of two races lifetime that drew a full field 12. Many bettors will opt to 'spread' in the Race 6 opener. Race 7, a seven-furlong maiden special weight race for 3-year-olds, attracted several royally bred first-time starters. Todd Pletcher is scheduled to saddle Gate Runner, a son of Arrogate, and Days of Your, a son of Street Sense. Bill Mott will send out Broken Spur, a son of American Pharoah, while Shug McGaughey will be represented by Breakwater, a son of Flatter.

In Race 8, a mile-and-70-yard race on Tapeta for $12,500 claiming fillies that have not won two races, George Weaver-trained Conundrum Queen is rated as the 5-2 favorite on the strength of a maiden score on turf. Kathleen O'Connell-trained Elusive Uncaptured broke her maiden last time out on Tapeta at Sunday's distance. Jose D'Angelo-trained Siren's Lucky Song and Antonio Sano-trained Adele Kat are coming off promising efforts last time out.

Mark Casse-trained Great Uncle, a Florida-bred son of Uncle Mo and 2012 Gulfstream Oaks runner-up and Mother Goose (G1) winner Zo Impressive, is scheduled to make his debut in Race 9, a 7 ½-furlong maiden optional claimer on turf. Pletcher-trained Vocalize drops in for a $50,000 tag after a pair of even efforts in maiden special weight company.

Rohan Crichton-trained Absolute Grit, an impressive starter allowance winner in his last two starts against open company, heads a field of eight state-breds in Race 10, a six-furlong starter allowance.

The Rainbow 6 sequence will finish off in Race 11 with a mile $16,000 maiden claimer for 3-year-old fillies on turf. Saffie Joseph Jr. will try to wrap up his breakthrough meet with a victory by Knowhentofoldem, who lost his debut on Tapeta by a neck.

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.

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Torrential rain and nearby lightning forced the cancellation of today's last four races at Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar, Fla. Action is expected to resume Sunday, with a nine-race card slated to kick off at 12:14 p.m.

There will be no turf racing, with the second, fifth, seventh and ninth races to be switched to the main track.

Refunds will be provided to bettors on the late Pick-5, Ultimate 6 and late Pick-4 wagers, as well as single-race win, place, show, exacta, trifecta, superfecta and Super High-5 wagers. Consolation payoffs will be made on daily double and Pick-3 wagers.

Count jockey Elione Chaves among those thankful the extreme weather stayed away until mid-afternoon. Chaves is a new face in the Tampa Bay Downs jockeys' room, but he is no stranger to winner's circles around the world.

The 38-year-old Brazilian added the United States to his victory log in today's third race, riding 3-year-old gelding Ludo to a 3 ½-length victory from Benny's Fiddle. The race was contested at a distance of a mile-and-a-sixteenth on a fast main track after being switched from the turf due to the wet grounds.

Ludo is owned by Endsley Oaks Farm and trained by Rafael Schistl, a former jockey from Brazil who Chaves competed against in their homeland. The victory came in Chaves's sixth U.S. start, the first three coming at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas.

Chaves has ridden more than 1,400 winners worldwide, including 735 in Sweden, where he has been champion jockey six of the last eight years. He has won a combined 382 races in Norway and Denmark; the three Scandinavian nations are also where Schistl achieved most of his success in the saddle. Chaves has 267 victories in Brazil.

“I'm happy to get my first win in the United States for Rafael, because he asked me to come to Tampa,” Chaves said. “We started riding together 16 years ago, and he is also the one who brought me to Sweden.”

Chaves said he plans to ride at Tampa Bay Downs through the conclusion of the meeting proper on May 7. He is weighing an offer to accompany Schistl to Monmouth Park, with a return to Sweden also possible.

Ludo won today in his fifth career start and his first since being claimed by Schistl and Endsley Oaks for $16,000 from a Feb. 23 third-place finish. “For me, winning here is very big,” Chaves said. “To get my first win in this country and to get it for Rafael, I'm very happy.”

In the fifth race, Native Hawk broke a 16-way tie atop the meet's Thoroughbred win standings, defeating Fortunate Friends by a length-and-a-quarter for his fourth victory this season. The 10-year-old gelding is 4-for-7 this season and 18-for-67 for his career.

Jose Batista has been aboard for all of Native Hawk's victories at the meet. The son of Flower Alley is owned and trained by Juan Arriagada. Batista also won the second race on first-time starter Tindari, a 3-year-old Florida-bred filly owned by Establo Heluce and trained by Juan C. Avila.

Tampa Bay Downs races on a Wednesday-Friday-Saturday-Sunday schedule through May 7, with the exception of Easter Sunday, April 17, when the track is closed, and May 1, when the Thoroughbred action is limited to simulcasting.

Otherwise, the Oldsmar oval is open every day for simulcast wagering, no-limits poker action and tournament play in The Silks Poker Room and (most days) golf fun and instruction at The Downs Golf Practice Facility.

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Saturday's nine-race card at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, N.Y., will be bolstered by a Pick 6 carryover of $39,862 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Friday.

The $1 Pick 6 returned $603.50 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 horses correctly.

Friday's sequence kicked on in Race 3 with O Shea Can U See [No. 5, $9.90] prevailing in a one-turn mile claiming event for 3-year-olds and up under Samuel Camacho, Jr. for owner-trainer Daniel Laxmeter.

Jockey Manny Franco was nearly unseated from Patient Capital [No. 5, $5.20] at the start of Race 5 but recovered in remarkable fashion to graduate in style in the six-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up. Chad Brown trained the winner for Klaravich Stables.

Sweet Surprise [No. 4, $14.80], with Dylan Davis up for Bruce Brown, provided a mild upset in Race 5 traveling a one-turn mile for sophomore fillies, before the favored Dr Ardito [No. 5, $3.50] scored easily in Race 6, a one-mile optional-claimer for 3-year-olds and up.

Brunate [No. 8, $6.40], with Jose Gomez up for H. James Bond, wore down Tamburro's Sox to capture Race 7, a six-furlong claiming sprint for 3-year-olds and up.

With only four horses uncovered in Race 8 finale, Masked Marauder [No. 7, $43.20] staved off the challenge of even-money favorite Key Point to secure the carryover as the longest price in the sequence. Gomez guided the winner for Rudy Rodriguez in the 6 1/2-furlong allowance sprint for New York-breds 3-years-old and up.

The Pick 6 kicks off Saturday at the Big A in Race 4 at 2:52 p.m. Eastern and will include the $150,000 Excelsior in Race 8. First post is 1:20 p.m.

America's Day at the Races will present daily coverage and analysis of the winter meet at Aqueduct Racetrack on the networks of FOX Sports. For the complete broadcast schedule, visit https://www.nyra.com/aqueduct/racing/tv-schedule.

NYRA Bets is the official wagering platform of Aqueduct Racetrack, and the best way to bet every race of the winter meet. Available to horseplayers nationwide, the NYRA Bets app is available for download today on iOS and Android at www.NYRABets.com

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The $1 million Curlin Florida Derby (G1) will headline Saturday's 14-race program featuring 10 stakes, six of them graded, worth $2.2 million in purses at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. The 71^st running of Gulfstream's tradition-rich Triple Crown prep race will also anchor the all-stakes sequences of the 20-cent Rainbow 6, the Late Pick 5, and the Late Pick 4.

The Rainbow 6 gross jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $750,000 Saturday after going unsolved Friday for the 12^th racing day in a row since the jackpot was hit for a $342,836.75 payoff.

The pools for both the Late Pick 5 (Races 10-14) and the Late Pick 4 (Races 11-14) will be guaranteed at $750,000.

The Curlin Florida Derby in Race 14 will feature a clash between Antonio Sano-trained Simplification, who captured the March 5 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth (G2) at Gulfstream by 3 ½ lengths, and Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained White Abarrio, who returns to action for the first time since soundly defeating Simplification in the Feb. 5 Holy Bull (G3). Brian Lynch-trained Classic Causeway, who is coming off victories in the Sam F. Davis (G3) and Tampa Bay Derby (G2), is slated to tune up for a planned start in the May 7 Kentucky Derby in the 1 1/8-mile Curlin Florida Derby. Mark Casse-trained Pappacap, who finished second in last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1), Todd Pletcher-conditioned Charge It, who is coming off a dazzling maiden win; and Gustavo Delgado-trained O Captain, who finished a late-closing third in the Fountain of Youth, are also prominent entrants in a field of 11 3-year-olds.

The Rainbow 6 sequence (Races 9-14) will be kicked off by the $200,000 Pan American (G2), a 1 ½-mile turf stakes featuring the 2022 debut of multiple Grade 1-winning Gufo. The Christophe Clement-trained son of Declaration of War, who won the Sword Dancer (G1) at Saratoga last year and the Belmont Invitational (G1) in 2020, is 3-for-3 over the Gulfstream Park turf. Pletcher-trained Abaan, who captured the Jan. 29 McKnight (G3), will seek to rebound from a troubled fourth-place finish in the Mar 5 Mac Diarmida (G2). Michael Maker-trained Temple, who captured the Mac Diarmida, also returns in the Pan American.

The $100,000 Sir Shackleton presented by New Holland, a seven-furlong stakes that will kick off the Late Pick 5 in Race 10, drew a field of nine older horses, including Bill Mott-trained Fortin Hill, the 5-2 morning line favorite who finished second in a March 4 optional claiming allowance in his first start since running in the 2020 Forego (G1) at Saratoga. Carlos David-trained Quick Tempo will try to make it two in a row off the $62,500 claim, while Joseph-trained Collaborate will wear blinkers for the first time following a disappointing effort in the Gulfstream Park Mile (G2).

The $100,000 Sanibel Island, a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for 3-year-old fillies that will kick off the Late Pick 4, follows in Race 11. Mott-trained Mischievous Kiss, who finished third while coming off a four-month layoff in the Herecomesthebride (G3), is rated as the 2-1 morning-line favorite in an evenly matched field of 10 fillies.

In Race 12, the $250,000 Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2), a 1 1/16-mile prep for the Kentucky Oaks (G1) on Kentucky Derby eve at Churchill Downs, will be headlined by Shug McGaughey-trained undefeated Kathleen O., the 4-5 favorite in a field of seven 3-year-old fillies who tries two turns for the first time after winning the mile Davona Dale (G1) and Cash Run in her last two starts. Pletcher-trained Goddess of Fire, who finished a close second in the Feb. 19 Rachel Alexandra (G2) at Fair Grounds, is slated to make her Gulfstream debut in the Gulfstream Park Oaks.

The $100,000 Kitten's Joy Appleton (G3), a mile turf race for older horses in Race 13, may well be designated as a 'spread' race by many bettors. The Brian Lynch-trained 3-1 morning-line favorite, Phantom Currency, is scheduled to make his first start since winning the 2021 Mac Diarmida. Graham Motion-trained English Bee, graded stakes-placed in two of his last three starts, is rated second at 7-2.

There will be a mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 pool Sunday, the final racing day of the 2021-2022 Championship Meet.

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.

The $100,000 Orchid (G3), a 1 ½-mile turf races for older fillies and mares, will be the first of 10 stakes in Race 3. The 57^th running of the Orchid will feature Brendan Walsh-trained Family Way, who came up a little short in her 2022 debut while finishing second the the March 5 The Very One (G3), and Beautiful Lover, the La Prevoyante (G3) winner two starts back. The $100,000 Sanibel Island, a 1 1/16-mile turf race for 3-year-olds, will be run as Race 5, followed by the $100,000 Ghostzapper (G3) in Race 6. Pletcher-trained Fearless, coming off second-place finishes Fred W. Hooper (G3) and Gulfstream Park Mile (G2) and McGaughey-trained Greatest Honour, the 2021 Fountain of Youth winner who returns to Gulfstream for his second start off a long layoff, are among the top contenders in the 1 1/8-mile stakes for older horses. The $100,000 Sand Springs, a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for older fillies and mares, is carded as Race 7.

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