Gulfstream Park: Rainbow 6 jackpot may reach $4.5 million
The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is estimated to reach $4.5 million for Sunday’s mandatory payout of the multi-race wager at Gulfstream Park to close the second weekend of the spring-summer meet.
Post time for the first of 10 races is at 12:50 p.m. EDT. Race 5, the first leg of the Rainbow 6, is scheduled for 2:51 p.m.
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The Rainbow 6 went unsolved Saturday for the 11th consecutive racing day since being hit for a $121,198.50 payout May 21. A planned mandatory payout for March 30 was scrapped when live racing was canceled because of a thunderstorm midway through the closing day program of the 2024-25 championship meet.
There is a carryover of $558,781.56 heading into Sunday’s Rainbow 6, which spans races 5-10. The sequence opens with a 1 1/16-mile turf claiming event for 3-year-old fillies or fillies and mares 4 and up who never have won two races. I Love Venezuela moves back to the grass after back to back runner-up finishes on the synthetic Tapeta. Down in the Bayou, third or better in 6 of 10 synthetic starts, tries turf for the first time.
Race 6 is a maiden special weight for 3-year-old fillies sprinting six furlongs. Reputation, the 9-5 program favorite, cuts back to one turn and returns to dirt after finishing fifth in a 1 1/16-mile race on grass Dec. 22. Among her rivals are first-time starters Tater Tot by Complexity, Who Lil Lady by Cajun Breeze and Oh Margot by Maximum Security.
Eight older horses are set to line up in race 7, a seven-furlong claiming sprint led by Thought. The 6-year-old son of Street Sense chasing a ninth career victory in his 30th start won at the course and distance Feb. 13. The competition includes fellow eight-time winner Self Taught, making his third start off a lengthy layoff; Luni Sima, third or better in 15 of 34 races; and Belts ’n Brooks, racing third off the claim for trainer Nolan Ramsey.
A dozen sophomore fillies were entered in Race 8, an optional claiming allowance for 3-year-old fillies scheduled for five furlongs on the grass. May Mischief returns after making her debut with a front-running victory over older horses March 5 on the Tapeta. Also exiting victories are Don’t Tell Tammo, Shesinamood and Bedtime, the latter two coming off lengthy layoffs.
The co-feature comes in race 9, an optional claiming allowance for fillies and mares 3 and up going 1 1/8 miles on the Tapeta. Tape Runner, unraced since Nov. 30, hit the board in her last three synthetic starts during the summer and fall. North End Lady will be trying Tapeta for the first time in her second race since joining trainer David Fawkes. Escape Room and Goa both own multiple wins over the surface.
Race 10, the finale, is a maiden special weight scheduled for 7 1/2 furlongs on the grass. It attracted 10 3-year-old fillies, four of them first-time starters including Timeless Wonder by Not This Time, Yes It Tiz by Tiz the Law and Live Oak Plantation homebred Souper Williwaw by Hard Spun. Yesterday adds blinkers and Lasix in her season debut after finishing off the board in two turf tries last year.
In the Rainbow 6 the carryover pool is paid only when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70% of the pool usually goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, and 30% is carried over to the jackpot pool. On mandatory payout days, the entire Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is paid to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the wager’s six-race sequence.