Gulfstream: All-stakes Rainbow 6 has mandatory payout
A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be held Saturday at Gulfstream Park, where the jackpot pool is expected to reach an estimated $3 million with a sequence of six stakes races.
The Rainbow 6 went unsolved Friday for the 14th racing day following a March 29 mandatory payout. The carryover going into Saturday is $266,215.02. First race post is 12:05 p.m. EDT.
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Saturday’s Rainbow 6 sequence will span races 6-11, kicked off by the $100,000 Fillies and Mares Sprint, a 6 1/2-furlong stakes for older fillies and mares featuring a matchup between Bill Mott-trained Nic’s Style, a graded-stakes winner who is 6: 3-3-0 at Gulfstream, and Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained Mystic Lake, a graded-stakes winner who has won 13 of her 24 career starts. Nic’s Style is the 6-5 morning-line favorite, while Mystic Lake is rated second at 7-5.
George Weaver-trained Maykomotion and Dale Romans-conditioned Rockies Balboa, who finished 1-2 in a state-bred stakes at Tampa Bay Downs last out, will clash again in race 7, the $100,000 Sophomore Sprint, a six-furlong stakes for 3-year-olds. Patrick Biancone-trained Diciassette, who followed up two wins at Gulfstream with a troubled fourth in the Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at Keeneland last year, will seek his first win this year while reuniting with jockey Jonathan Ocasio.
Ron Spatz-trained Private Thoughts and jockey Leonel Reyes will be reunited in the $100,000 Turf, a 1 1/16-mile grass stakes for older horses in race 8. Before going to the sidelines for a long layoff due to a fractured left ankle, Reyes won three races in a row aboard Private Thoughts, the 2-1 morning-line favorite in a field of eight. Tank, Arindel’s stakes veteran with more than $300,000 in earnings, and Adios Cole, a ultra-consistent gelding who shipped to Del Mar last summer to win an open optional claiming allowance, should provide pressure.
Jorge Delgado-trained Mythical promises to be a popular single in Rainbow 6 betting. The Arindel homebred is the 4-5 morning-line favorite in race 9, the $100,000 Sophomore Fillies Sprint, a six-furlong stakes for 3-year-old fillies. Mythical is a graded-stakes winner who has won four of five starts at Gulfstream. Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained Tessellate, a multiple stakes winner coming off a state-bred stakes score at Tampa Bay Downs, tops the opposition.
Mott-trained Damon’s Mound, who has won two of three starts and finished second in an open stakes in three starts at Gulfstream, is the 7-5 morning-line favorite in race 10, the $100,000 Sprint, a six-furlong stakes for four-year-olds and up. Damon’s Mound is coming off a victory in the Sprint for Florida-breds at Tampa Bay Downs. A winner on turf and dirt, Biancone-trained Classic of Course is back on his preferred surface.
Mark Casse-trained Souper Zonda is favored in the morning line at 9-5 for race 11, the $100,000 Fillies and Mares Turf, a mile grass stakes for older fillies and mares that ends the Rainbow 6 sequence. The 4-year-old daughter of Curlin is 2-for-2 in Florida-bred stakes, including the Distaff Turf at Tampa Bay Downs last time out. Rory Miller-trained Lets Go Koko, a nine-race winner on turf and Tapeta, will be ready rain or shine.
On mandatory payout days, the entire Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the wager’s six-race sequence. The 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% of that day’s pool usually goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30% is carried over to the jackpot pool.