Gulfstream Park mandatory payout may reach $3 million Sunday
The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is estimated to surpass $3 million for Sunday’s mandatory payout of the multi-race wager on closing day of the 2024-25 championship meet at Gulfstream Park.
Post time for the first of 12 races is 12:50 p.m. EDT.
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The Rainbow 6 went unsolved for a sixth consecutive racing day on Saturday’s Florida Derby program. It has produced five six-digit returns including a high of $489,592.94 on Dec. 15 and the most recent payoff of $121,198.50 March 21.
A total of $550,873 was put into the Rainbow 6 on Saturday. There will be a carryover of $288,488.31 for Sunday.
Starting at 4:05 p.m. EDT, Sunday’s sequence spans races 7-12. It begins with a claiming event for fillies and mares 3 and up scheduled for one mile on the grass. Awesomely Wild makes her turf debut after finishing third in back-to-back starts, once each on the dirt and the synthetic Tapeta course. Carrington takes a class drop following successive thirds at 7 1/2 furlongs and 1 1/16 miles.
The first of three maiden special-weight events comes in race 8, in which eight 3-year-olds are entered to go 1 1/16 miles. Majorca, Only in America, Meritorious and Shangrala Road, all Triple Crown-nominated, are a combined 0-for-7 this winter. Balino, a son of 2020 Kentucky Derby and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Authentic, makes his racing debut.
Race 9 is a claiming event for 4-year-olds and up going one mile on the main track. Lookin At Roses, 9, chases a 15th career win in his 59th start, having gone winless in four straight since last fall. Top Recruit exits a 3 1/2-length victory sprinting 5 1/2 furlongs Jan. 31 at Tampa Bay Downs for meet leading trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. and owner Ken Ramsey, who also send out 2-1 program favorite Billy the Greek.
Fillies and mares 3 and up are scheduled to go 1 1/16 miles on the grass in race 10, a maiden special weight that drew a field of nine including first time starters Royalty Rate by Medaglia d’Oro and Mildred Pierce by Uncle Mo. Royalty Rate, trained by Chad Brown, is one of five horses who brought six figures at auction with a $300,000 price tag matched by Taboo Mischief, winless in three prior starts, all on dirt.
Race 11 is the $60,000 Sunshine State Starter Handicap for older horses going 1 1/8 miles on the Tapeta. Lamplighter Jack, a 12-time winner, is entered to return to synthetics, where he is 5-for-8 lifetime at Gulfstream after six straight turf starts. K.C. Chief won the Mucho Gusto Handicap at the course and distance two starts back. Both Soulmate and Honesto come off Gulfstream Tapeta wins going 1 1/16 miles.
The race 12 finale is a maiden special weight scheduled for one mile on the grass which drew a dozen 3-year-old fillies. Fallon adds blinkers and Lasix in her first turf start after finishing third twice in four tries on dirt. First-time starters include Hibiscus and Caviar Breakfast, homebreds by Constitution and Mendelssohn, respectively, and $120,000 Gun Runner daughter Lose Control. Obiessante stretches out after being beaten by less than two lengths when she finished fifth for Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher in a five-furlong grass sprint Feb. 15.
In the Rainbow 6, the jackpot pool is paid only when there is one unique ticket sold with all six winners. When there is no unique ticket, 70% of the day’s pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, and 30% is carried over to the jackpot pool. However, on mandatory payout days, the entire Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is paid to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the six-race sequence. This will be the sixth mandatory payout of the championship meet dating to Jan. 5.
The Rainbow 6 was solved most recently for a $121,198.50 jackpot payout March 21.