The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $400,000 Saturday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., where the popular multi-race wager went unsolved Friday for the 12th racing day since a Sept. 10 mandatory payout produced multiple payoffs of $313,299.84
The Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 5-10 and will feature the $60,000 Miami Shores, an overnight handicap at 5 ½ furlongs on Tapeta for fillies and mares carded as Race 8.
Trainer Steve Dwoskin's Choose Joy, a star turf sprinter coming off back-to-back handicap victories, is scheduled to headline the Miami Shores while making her all-weather track debut. The 4-year-old daughter of Munnings galloped over the new all-weather track earlier this week to jockey Miguel Vasquez's satisfaction.
Trainer Elizabeth Dobles' Pudding, a sharp winner of an overnight handicap two starts back, will try to bounce back from his most-recent disappointing fourth-place finish while facing six veteran campaigners in Saturday's Race 9, a six-furlong optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds and up.
The Rainbow 6 jackpot is 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.
A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 will highlight Saturday's 12-race Gulfstream Park program in Hallandale Beach, Fla., which will also feature the $75,000 Sheer Drama Stakes and the $60,000 North Bay Village Handicap.
The mandatory-payout pool of the popular multi-race wager is expected to grow over $2.5 million Saturday. Following Friday's program, the jackpot pool swelled to $588,559.89.
The Rainbow 6 has gone unsolved for 21 consecutive racing days since a July 31 mandatory payout. The Rainbow 6 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 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.
Ron Nicoletti's Rainbow 6 longshots:
Saturday's Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 7-12, headlined by the Sheer Drama in Race 11. The seven-furlong stakes for Florida-bred fillies and mares attracted a well-stocked field of eight sprinters, including multiple graded stakes-placed Sound Machine. The Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained 4-year-old daughter of Into Mischief is coming off a third-place finish in the $250,000 Princess Rooney (G2). Kathleen O'Connell-trained Thissmytime, who set the track record for seven-furlongs at Gulfstream Park West last fall, will seek to improve on a pair of subpar showings that followed a runner-up finish in the Jan. 23 Inside Information (G2) at Gulfstream. Multiple-stakes winners Heiressall and Starship Bonita are also entered.
The Rainbow 6 sequence is kicked off by a mile maiden special weight race for fillies and mares on turf in Race 7. Tom Proctor-trained Free Data, who is working sharply at Palm Meadows after coming up short in the stretch lasthttps://youtu.be/ time out, is the lukewarm 3-1 morning-line favorite in what will likely be a popular 'spread' race with Rainbow 6 bettors.
Joe Orseno-trained Call Bros, a winner over slightly weaker rivals last time out, figures to receive solid support in Race 8, a 7 ½-furlong turf races for 3-year-olds and up in which there appear to be several upset possibilities. Race 9, a six-furlong maiden special weight race for Florida-bred juveniles, is headed by Juan Carlos Avila-trained Spuntacular, the 6-5 favorite who ran second and third in his first two career starts under less-than-ideal trips. Georgina Baxter-trained R Big G, a son of The Big Beast, Bob Hess Jr.-trained Birdnote, a son of Noble Bird, and Patrick Biancone-trained Mr Rum Runner, a son of Uncaptured, are interesting first-time starters with strong series of works.
Rohan Crichton-trained Captain Ron, a turf sprinter who won two of his last three starts, is rated as the 9-5 morning-line favorite in Race 10, an optional claiming allowance at five furlongs on turf. Trainer Steve Klesaris, who has a deft hand with turf sprinters will be represented by The Virginian. Carlos David-trained Discreet Tune looked sharp last time out while facing weaker.
The Sheer Drama will be followed by a 7 ½-furlong turf race for $20,000 claimers in Race 12 that should pose a challenge to Rainbow 6 bettors. Richard Silvestri-trained Catching Fish is the 3-1 morning-line favorite on the strength of beating better last time out. Uno Tiger is scheduled to make his turf debut for trainer Kathleen O'Connell. The son of Macho Uno is out of a mare who won both on dirt and turf.
A maiden special weight race for 2-year-olds at 7 ½ furlongs on turf will kick off Saturday's program. Trainer Mark Casse will unveil Michael Tabor's War Strategy, a son of War Front out of Coolmore, a Group 3 stakes-winning daughter of Galileo. Trainer Herman Wilensky and Harry Orgo's Harry's Onthebeach, a half-brother to stakes-winner Harry's Ontheloose, will make his second start after finishing a troubled second in his debut.
Tom Proctor-trained Summering will concede two and seven pounds to her rivals in the North Bay Village, a mile overnight handicap for fillies and mares on turf carded as Race 5. The multiple stakes-winning 5-year-old daughter of War Front, who will carry 124 pounds, will seek to rebound from an even fourth-place finish in the Ginger Punch.
Gulfstream Park's 20-cent Rainbow 6 will have a guaranteed pool of $700,000 when racing resumes Saturday with a first race post of 12:20 p.m. ET.
Saturday's Rainbow 6 kicks off with Race 7, a claiming event for fillies and mares at a mile on the turf. The sequence includes two other turf races and an allowance optional claimer for 2-year-old fillies at a mile on the main track. She's So Beautiful, a winner of her last two races trained by Carlos David, is 7-5 in the morning line.
Earlier in the afternoon, a field of eight 3-year-old fillies go to post in the $75,000 Miss Gracie at 7 ½ furlongs on the turf. The 5-2 favorite is Starship Nterprise, second in the Monroe and a winner of the Martha Washington.
The Rainbow 6 jackpot is 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.
Sunday's feature at Gulfstream will be the $75,000 Bear's Den for 3-year-olds at 7 ½ furlongs on the turf. Fulmini, a winner of two of his last three, is 2-1 on the morning line. Officiating, second by a nose over the winter at Tampa Bay Downs in the Sophomore Turf, is 5-2. Carry Back winner Papetu is even-money but entered only for the main track.
NOTES: Glen Hill Farm's Muted, a 2-year-old daughter of Into Mischief out of the graded stakes-placed mare Praia, won her debut Friday by 7 ¼ lengths for trainer Thomas Proctor, covering six furlongs in 1:11.02 after taking the lead around the turn. Muted sold for $450,000 as a yearling. … Rough Entry, a 4-year-old colt claimed in April by trainer Rohan Crichton for $20,000 won Friday's featured $53,000 optional claimer. It was the colt's fifth consecutive victory and fourth for Crichton. Rough Entry was a half-length better than a game Isolate, third in last year's Nashua (G3). Trophy Chaser, a Grade 3 winner returning from a 16-month layoff, was third, three-quarters of a length behind Isolate.
In Del Mar racetrack's Rainbow Pick Single Ticket Jackpot wager, for the 18th straight time a single bettor couldn't tab all six winners on his or her own meaning there will be yet another carryover into Saturday's TVG Pacific Classic Day card where a “mandatory” payout awaits at the seaside track north of San Diego, Calif.
Friday's carryover amount of $1,874,996 will be in the pool to start the day Saturday and it and all the “new” money that comes in on the bet will go out to those who have the most winners, guaranteed.
Some projections put the likely “new” money amount in the $6-million to $10-million range. If so, it will virtually ensure that the track will best its non-Breeders' Cup single-day betting record of $25,870,431 set on August 18, 2018, a TVG Pacific Classic Day.
Racing for the big TVG Pacific Classic Day card begins at 2 p.m. Saturday. Eleven races will be on tap with the Pick Six wager beginning on Race 6, which is scheduled to go off at approximately 4:30 p.m.
