Gulfstream: Mandatory Rainbow 6 payout may hit $1.25 million

The Rainbow 6 pool may reach $1.25 million Sunday when a mandatory payout of the 20-cent jackpot will be made at Gulfstream Park.

Post time for the first of 10 races is 12:50 p.m. EDT. The Rainbow 6 sequence is scheduled to begin with race 5 at 2:50 p.m. All races will be run off the turf.

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The multi-race wager has gone unsolved for seven consecutive racing days following multiple mandatory payouts of $206.30 on Aug. 24. Sunday’s pool began with a $131,407.49 carryover from Saturday’s 11-race program.

In the Rainbow 6, the jackpot pool is paid only when there is a single ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70% of that day’s pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, and 30% is carried over to the jackpot pool. On mandatory payout days such as Sunday, the entire pool goes to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the six-race sequence.

Race 5, 2:50 p.m. EDT, one-mile and 70-yard Tapeta claimer for 3-year-olds and up. Arindel’s 6-year-old homebred gelding Merlin, stakes placed at 3, adds blinkers in his 29th start and second for trainer Carlos David. Though winless in 11 tries on grass, the son of foundation sire Brethren does show three wins from as many attempts on the Tapeta. Donald Ming’s Ninja Star rallied to win the 1 1/16-mile Sunshine Turf on Jan. 25, which was rained onto the Tapeta. He looks to improve on a runner-up finish July 18 at a similar condition as Sunday’s race. Double Neat races first off the claim for trainer Nolan Ramsey.

Race 6, 3:28 p.m. EDT, 6 1/2-furlong claimer for 2-year-old fillies. A wide-open field of 11 is led by e Five Racing Thoroughbreds and Madaket Stables’ 2-1 program favorite Lady Lullaby. She goes from turf to dirt off a sixth-place debut finish Aug. 29 for leading trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., who clicks at 22% with 2-year-olds and maidens the second time out. Jockey Reylu Gutiérrez wins at a 37% clip for Joseph at Gulfstream. Super Super Stable’s Goldie Glory looks to break through after back-to-back third-place efforts, one each on turf and dirt. Sweet Agenda shortens after being eased going seven furlongs Aug. 15. Make Your Wish, Brat Girl, Celebrity Dream, My Lil Flirt and Just Majestic are entered for their career debuts.

Race 7, 4:02 p.m. EDT, 1 1/16-mile Tapeta claimer for fillies and mares, 3 and up. Before it was moved off the turf, eight were entered in the third-level event led by In Front Racing Stables’ Tinta Roja, who drew the rail under jockey Miguel Vásquez. The 4-year-old filly won in a second-level spot two starts back June 21. She has gone unraced since her claim was voided after finishing fourth as the favorite Aug. 1. Rags Racing’s Trumpetta races first for trainer Frank Regalbuto off a $12,500 claim following a victory on Tapeta on Aug. 24. Ontario-bred 7-year-old mare Pemberley has run third in three consecutive races, two on Tapeta, since being claimed by trainer José D’Angelo.

Race 8, 4:33 p.m. EDT, five-furlong Tapeta claimer for 3-year-olds and up. Ladycaroly Stable’s Icelander, third or better in 7 of 8 starts, looms large against eight rivals in his return to the races. The 4-year-old Speightster colt is 5: 2-1-2 on the Gulfstream synthetic and makes his first start since Jan. 3. Bacquet Corp.’s speedy To Monarch has been second in each of his last three races, beaten by a total of 3 1/4 lengths going five or 5 1/2 furlongs on Tapeta and figures to be an early threat. Amaren’s Florida-bred 5-year-old gelding Big Amadeus has back-to-back wins, both sprinting 5 1/2 furlongs on Tapeta.

Race 9, 5:04 p.m. EDT, one-mile claimer for 3-year-olds and up. Florida-bred 4-year-old gelding Lou the Body chases a fifth consecutive win, having won by as little as a neck May 11 and as many as 15 lengths July 27 when he was claimed by owner-trainer Dan Hurtak. Both his neck triumph and a seven-length score July 22 on a sealed sloppy track came at one mile. Six-time winner The Thor gets blinkers removed after running fourth by a length at the course and distance Aug. 2 under Gutiérrez, who has the return call from post 5 in a field of seven. Swashbuckle, a $253,210 career earner from 41 starts, returns to a distance at which he won July 19 to snap a 12-race losing streak.

Race 10, 5:35 p.m. EDT, one-mile turf claimer for fillies and mares, 3 and up. Bart Voloshin’s Pocket Pair, a 3-year-old Florida-bred filly who ran second in a similar spot Aug. 23 on the Tapeta, is the lukewarm, 3-1 morning-line favorite. It was also her first start with blinkers, which trainer Víctor Barboza Jr. will put on her again. Julio Manuel Garriga’s A Great Date, making her fourth start, graduated last time with a determined head victory going 1 1/16 miles on Tapeta on Aug. 24 in the nightcap of Gulfstream’s last mandatory payout day. Golden Valley, now in the barn of trainer Carlos Narváez, has a turf win and a Tapeta second in two starts since returning from a short layoff.