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‘All Others’ Favored At 3-1 In Kentucky Derby Future Wager Pool 3; Life Is Good Next At 7-1

With the Kentucky Derby 11 weeks away, the pari-mutuel field of “All Other 3-Year-Olds”closed as the 3-1 favorite in Pool 3 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager (KDFW), and Sham Stakes (G3) winner Life Is Good was the 7-1 second betting choice.

Life Is Good, who closed as the 5-1 individual favorite in Pool 1 and 7-1 individual choice in Pool 2, was a narrow but fast winner of the one-mile Sham at Santa Anita on Jan. 2. He is expected to make his next start in the March 6 San Felipe (G2) for six-time Kentucky Derby winner Bob Baffert.

The Brad Cox-trained 2-year-old champion Essential Quality, perfect in three starts after winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile in November, closed at odds of 8-1 for the third time in as many future wager pools. He is scheduled to make his 3-year-old debut in Saturday's rescheduled Southwest (GIII) at Oaklawn Park.

The Shug McGaughey-trained 5 ¾-length Holy Bull (GIII) winner Greatest Honour was close behind at 9-1. Other horses that garnered attention from bettors include 8 ½-length maiden winner Prevalence (14-1), 10 ¼-length Smarty Jones winner Caddo River (15-1), Risen Star (GII) winner Mandaloun (16-1) and San Vicente (G2) winner Concert Tour (17-1).

Horses in order of the public's betting choice (with trainer, Pool 3 odds and $2 Win will pays): #24 “All Other 3-Year-Olds” (3-1, $8.60); #13 Life Is Good (Bob Baffert, 7-1, $17.40); #5 Essential Quality (Brad Cox, 8-1, $18.80); #8 Greatest Honour (Shug McGaughey III, 9-1, $21.80); #18 Prevalence (Brendan Walsh, 14-1, $31.80); #1 Caddo River (Brad Cox, 15-1, $33); #14 Mandaloun (Brad Cox, 16-1, $34.60); #3 Concert Tour (Bob Baffert, 17-1, $36.60); #12 Keepmeinmind (Robertino Diodoro, 25-1, $52.20); #19 Risk Taking (Chad Brown, 25-1, $52.40); #15 Medina Spirit (Bob Baffert, 25-1, $53); #11 Jackie's Warrior (Steve Asmussen, 26-1, $55.20); #4 Dream Shake (Peter Eurton, 28-1, $58.60); #6 Fire At Will (Mike Maker, 30-1, $62.60); #2 Candy Man Rocket (Bill Mott, 35-1, $73.60); #10 Hot Rod Charlie (Doug O'Neill, 35-1, $73.60); #9 Highly Motivated (Chad Brown, 37-1, $77); #23 The Great One (Doug O'Neill, 38-1, $79.80); #21 Senor Buscador (Todd Fincher, 39-1, $81.60); #16 Midnight Bourbon (Steve Asmussen, 41-1, $84.20); #20 Roman Centurian (Simon Callaghan, 41-1, $85); #7 Freedom Fighter (Bob Baffert, 52-1, $106.80); #22 Swiftsure (Steve Asmussen, 74-1, $150.20); and #17 Nova Rags (Bill Mott, 91-1, $184.40).

Total handle for the Feb. 12-14 KDFW pool – the third of five scheduled wagering pools in advance of the 147th running of the $3 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (GI) on Saturday, May 1 – was $388,987 ($278,397 in the Win pool and $110,590 in Exactas).

Dates for the remaining 2021 Kentucky Derby future pools are March 5-7 (Pool 4) and March 26-28 (Pool 5). The lone Kentucky Oaks Future Wager will coincide with Pool 4 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager.

Visit www.KentuckyDerby.com/FutureWager for more information.

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Gulfstream Park: Wednesday’s Rainbow 6 To Have $250,000 Guaranteed Jackpot

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $250,000 Wednesday at Gulfstream Park.

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved Sunday following Saturday's mandatory payout. Multiple tickets with all six winners were each worth $680.90 Sunday.

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.

Eres Tu Among Nominations for Saturday's G3 Royal Delta
Edward Seltzer and Beverly Anderson's Eres Tu is expected to seek her fourth-straight victory in Saturday's $100,000 Royal Delta (G3) at Gulfstream Park.

The Arnaud Delacour-trained daughter of Malibu Moon is prominent on the list of nominations for the Royal Delta, a 1 1/16-mile stakes for older fillies and mares. The 5-year-old Kentucky-bred mare, who was 3-for-3 last year, is coming off a victory in the Allaire DuPont (G3) at Laurel Park Dec. 26.

Allen Stable Inc.'s Mrs. Danvers, who captured the Nov. 27 Comely (G3) in her last start, was also nominated and is expected to start in the Royal Delta for Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey.

Eclipse champion Monomoy Girl was nominated to the Royal Delta but is not scheduled to start.

WHO'S HOT: Defending Two-time Championship Meet titlist Irad Ortiz enjoyed yet another multi-win afternoon Sunday, scoring a natural grand slam aboard Lontano ($5.40) in Race 5, Bold Agenda ($3.80) in Race 6, I Kickn ($3.40) in Race 7, and Come Storming ($5.20) in Race 8..

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Sunday’s Card At Laurel Cancelled Due To Storm; Racing To Resume With Holiday Program On Monday

Due to a winter storm in the Mid-Atlantic region, Laurel Park in Laurel, Md., has cancelled Sunday's nine-race program.

Live racing returns Monday when Laurel will run a special Presidents Day holiday program with a 12:25 p.m. first race post time.

The MJC's off-track betting sites will remain open for simulcasting.

It's the second consecutive day Laurel has cancelled live racing. The Maryland Jockey Club postponed Saturday's Winter Sprintfest program featuring the $250,000 Runhappy Barbara Fritchie (G3) and $250,000 General George (G3) to Saturday, Feb. 20.

In addition to the Barbara Fritchie and General George for older sprinters, the Winter Sprintfest program includes the $100,000 Miracle Wood for 3-year-olds and $100,000 Wide Country for 3-year-old fillies and the $100,000 John B. Campbell for 4-year-olds and up and $100,000 Nellie Morse for older females at about 1 1/16 miles.

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Gulfstream Park: Over $5.8 Million Wagered On Rainbow 6 On Mandatory Payout Day

There were multiple winning tickets in Saturday's mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 at Gulfstream Park with each ticket worth $17,215.86.

There was a carryover pool of $1,048,970.38 in the Rainbow 6, and $5,831,816 of new money wagered into the pool Saturday.

The sequence started off with a bang when 30-1 longshot Boreas won Gulfstream's seventh race, a maiden special weight event on a mile turf course and returned $62.80.

The jackpot pool 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 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 whole pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors holding tickets with the most winners in the six-race sequence.

There will be a guaranteed pool of $200,000 in Sunday's Rainbow 6, which includes three turf races. The sequence begins with the sixth race, a maiden special event at a mile for 4-year-olds and up. Bold Agenda, a son of Candy Ride from the Todd Pletcher stable, is 9-5 in the morning-line off a third-place finish here Jan. 15 at a mile. Winter Pool, a son of Curlin, debuts for the barn of Chad Brown and is 5-2.

The 10th race, an optional allowance claimer at 1 1/16 mile on the turf, is a wide-open affair with a dozen fillies and mares. The Brown barn sends out Linny Kate, a daughter of Tonalist making her first start in eight months. Brendan Walsh sends out two including Godolphin LLC's Lake Lucerne, making her U.S. debut. The final leg of the sequence is a maiden special weight event for 3-year-old fillies on the turf at 1 1/16 mile. It's another competitive event with debut runners from the barns of Shug McGaughey, Christophe Clement and Brown, and 4-1 favorite Champagne Ivy for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., and A Thing of Beauty for Pletcher.

NOTES: Calumet Farm's Flying Scotsman went gate-to-wire to win Saturday's 10th race, a $53,000 allowance optional claimer. A 5-year-old son of English Channel entering the race off a fifth-place finish in the Tropical Turf (G3), Flying Scotsman and Corey Lanerie covered the mile turf course in 1:32.83 and returned $33.60. Structor, making his first start since winning the 2019 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1), finished in a dead heat for fourth.

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