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That’s The Ticket! Gulfstream Hosts, Handicappers Offer Advice On Mandatory Payout Rainbow 6

The mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 Saturday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., where the pool is expected to grow to $6 million or more, features two stakes, four turf races, and a closing sequence featuring 11 juveniles going a mile in a maiden special weight event on the grass.

The challenging sequence, which begins with the sixth race, also includes the $100,000 Mr. Prospector (G3) featuring seven graded-stakes winners going seven furlongs, and the $100,000 Via Borghese, a 1 3/16 mile turf event for fillies and mares.

Gulfstream hosts and analysts Jason Blewitt, Acacia Courtney and Ron Nicoletti along with Mike Welsch of the Daily Racing Form and Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press have put together tickets for Saturday's Rainbow 6.

Some of the more interesting selections include:

Nicoletti using Hero Up (30-1) in the first leg
Reynolds including Inventing Blame (12-1) in the third leg.
Welsch putting Lasting Legacy (15-1) in the fifth leg
Courtney including 20-1 shot Kentucky Pharoah in the final leg

Rainbow 6 Tickets

Jason Blewitt, Gulfstream analyst
Race 6: 5-9-10
Race 7: 1-5-7-8
Race 8: 1-7
Race 9: 2-8-9
Race 10: 7-9
Race 11: 2-5-9-11

Cost: $115.20

Acacia Courtney, Gulfstream analyst
Race 6: 9-10
Race 7: 4-8
Race 8: 1-4
Race 9: 2-3-8
Race 10: 4-7-9
Race 11: 1-3-7-9-1

Cost – $72

Ron Nicoletti, Gulfstream analyst
Race 6: 4-9-1
Race 7: 1-4-7
Race 8: 1-9-12
Race 9: 2-8-9
Race 10: 7-9
Race 11: 4-5-11

Cost: $97.20

Tim Reynolds, Associated Press

Race 6: 5-7
Race 7: 3-4-7
Race 8: 4-9-12
Race 9: 2-4-8-9
Race 10: 7-9
Race 11: 1-3-9

Cost: $86.40

Mike Welsch, Daily Racing Form
Race 6: 5-7-10
Race 7: 1-4
Race 8: 1-7
Race 9: 2-3-8
Race 10: 1-7-9
Race 11: 1-2-4

Cost: $64.80

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Mandatory Rainbow 6 Payout Set For Saturday At Gulfstream

A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be offered Saturday at Gulfstream Park, where the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector and the $100,000 Via Borghese will be included in the six-race sequence of the popular multi-race wager.

Saturday's 11-race program will get underway at 12:05 p.m.

The Rainbow 6 went unsolved for the 13th day of the Championship Meet Friday, when multiple tickets with all six winners were each worth $398.54. A jackpot pool of $839,334.75 will be carried over to Saturday's mandatory payout.

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 Rainbow 6 will be kicked off in Race 6, a 7 ½-furlong turf race for $20,000 claimers that drew a field of 10 and a main-track-only entrant. Live Oak Plantation's Souper Highvoltage, who will race for a claiming tag for the first time, is rated as the 5-2 morning-line favorite in what may be widely viewed as a 'spread' race.

An optional claiming allowance for fillies and mares at six furlongs follows in Race 7. Ralph Nicks-trained Doll Collection, a daughter of two-time Eclipse Award champion Groupie Doll, is rated as the 5-2 morning-line favorite in a field of eight that includes Michael Stidham-trained Pago Querido, who broke her maiden at Laurel in her most recent start.

Chad Brown-trained Greyes Creek will seek his third straight victory in Race 8, a 1 1/16-mile turf race for 3-year-olds and up. The 4-year-old son of Pioneerof the Nile will be challenged by Graham Motion-trained Succeedandsurpass, who overcame traffic to win a Woodbine allowance last time out.

The Via Borghese, a 1 3/16-mile turf stakes for fillies and mares, is carded as Race 9. Todd Pletcher-trained Always Shopping, the only graded stakes winner in the field of nine, is favored in the morning line at 5-2. The 4-year-old daughter of Awesome Again, who won the 2019 Gazelle (G2) on dirt and finished second in a photo for win in the Dowager (G3) at Keeneland last time out, will be accompanied to the gate by Pletcher stablemate Cap de Creus. Brown-trained Great Island is scheduled to make her stakes debut in the Via Borghese while coming off back-to-back wins.

The $100,000 Mr. Prospector (G3), a seven-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up, will provide the stage for a clash of Firenze Fire, Mind Control and Diamond Oops, a trio of graded-stakes veterans in a talent-laden field of 12. Firenze Fire, who finished third in the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) at Keeneland last time out, is the 5-2 morning-line favorite.

The Rainbow 6 sequence will conclude with a mile maiden special weight race on turf for 2-year-olds in Race 11. The field of 11 includes first-time starters trained by Pletcher, Mark Casse and Brian Lynch.

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After Dead Heat At Gulfstream, Friday’s Stronach 5 Had 142 Winning Tickets

There were 142 winning tickets on Friday's Stronach 5, each worth $838.70.

The Stronach 5 featured races from Laurel Park and Gulfstream Park as well as an industry-low 12-percent takeout.

Laurel's eighth race, the first leg of the sequence, was won by Fille d'Esprit ($6.80). The 4-year-old Great Notion filly won for the fourth consecutive time and for the seventh time in her last eight starts for trainer John Robb. The second leg of the Stronach 5, Gulfstream's eighth race, was won by Honorable ($11) for trainer Todd Pletcher, while the third leg was taken at Laurel by Itgot Grandma ($10).

The fourth leg resulted in a dead heat in Gulfstream's ninth race with Bienville Street ($11.20) and Sister Hanan ($5.40). The final leg, Gulfstream's 10^th race, was won by even-money favorite Bird Map ($4).

Friday's races and sequence

Leg One – Laurel Park 8^th Race: Fille d'Esprit $6.80
Leg Two –Gulfstream Park 8^th Race: Honorable $11
Leg Three –Laurel Park 9^th Race: Itgot Grandma $10
Leg Four –Gulfstream Park 9^th Race: (10 entries, 1 mile turf)

DH Sister Hanan $5.40, Bienville Street $11.20

Leg Five –Gulfstream West 10^th Race: Bird Map $4

Fans can watch and wager on the action at 1/ST.COM/BET as well as stream all the action in English and Spanish at LaurelPark.com, SantaAnita.com, GulfstreamPark.com, and GoldenGateFields.com.

The Stronach 5 In the Money podcast, hosted by Jonathan Kinchen and Peter Thomas Fornatale, will be posted by 2 p.m. Thursday at InTheMoneyPodcast.com and will be 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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Free Analysis: Jeff Siegel Provides Daily Column, Workout Report For Santa Anita Horseplayers

Daily race-by-race workout information, always a vital tool in the handicapping process, will be available to Santa Anita horse players as part Jeff Siegel's Daily Analysis & Wagering Strategies column when racing resumes on opening day, Saturday, Dec. 26 at the Great Race Place.

A part of the XBTV team, Siegel is widely-regarded as the West Coast's most astute veteran handicapper. His column will be accessible at santaanita.com or xpressbet.com every race day morning as a PDF document that can viewed, printed, or downloaded. The Santa Anita Workout Report will highlight recent drills from “In Today” runners and will include commentary, digitally-timed interior fractions, graded analysis and links to the video of the workouts that are housed in the extensive xbtv.com library.

“This new analytic tool will describe and evaluate each listed drill with the written word but, more importantly, it will easily allow the reader to view many of the actual workouts and form his or her own opinions,“ said Siegel, who was the first to publish workout reports back in the 1970s after co-founding Handicapper's Report. “The Santa Anita Workout Report should be an invaluable reference source for the serious player.”

The daily morning tab at Santa Anita often contains a hundred or more officially-timed workouts, especially on weekends. “Because of the sheer volume, it is difficult to record them all,” said Siegel, “but, truthfully, some workouts are benign, simply for maintenance, and are of little consequence to the handicapping process. The XBTV team focuses on those runners that hold the most interest to the horseplayer, such as maidens, horses returning from layoffs, those in gate drills, and stakes performers.”

The Santa Anita Workout Report, along with Siegel's popular Daily Analysis & Wagering Strategies, will be posted no later than 6 a.m. PDT each racing day and often times the evening before to allow horse players sufficient time to incorporate the information into their handicapping.

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