Gulfstream: Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is estimated at $500,000
The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is estimated to reach $500,000 for Saturday’s 14-race Fountain of Youth day program at Gulfstream Park featuring nine stakes, eight graded, worth $2.025 million in purses. First race post time is 11:30 a.m. EST.
The multi-race wager has been hit six times since the championship meet opened Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, most recently for $77,814.84 on Feb. 20. Thus far, the largest jackpot payout of $416,348.44 came Jan. 8.
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In the Rainbow 6, the jackpot pool is paid out only 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 goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners and 30% is carried over to the jackpot pool.
Saturday’s Rainbow 6 spans races 9-14, anchored by the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth for 3-year-olds on the road to the Florida Derby (G1) on March 28. A total of 105 qualifying points to the May 2 Kentucky Derby are up for grabs in the Fountain of Youth to the top five finishers on a 50-25-15-10-5 basis.
The Rainbow 6 sequence is kicked off by the San Cristobal overnight handicap for older horses on the Tapeta course. Hades, 2024 winner of the Holy Bull (G3), will try the surface for the first time against such synthetic specialists as Iron Hand, Classic Mo Town, Prevent and Private Thoughts.
Race 10 is the $175,000 The Very One (G3) for older fillies and mares on the grass, where multiple stakes winner No Show Sammy Jo will break from outermost Post 9 seeking her first graded success having placed twice previously.
Race 11 is the $225,000 Davona Dale (G2) for 3-year-old fillies on the road to the Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2) on March 28. The Davona Dale offers 105 qualifying points for the May 1 Kentucky Oaks (G1) on a 50-25-15-10-5 scale to the top five finishers.
Race 12 is the Honey Fox (G3) for older fillies and mares on the grass. Among the wide-open field of 10 are Crevalle d’Oro and Movin’ On Up, respectively second and third in the Pegasus Filly & Mare Turf (G2) on Jan. 24, and 2025 Queen Elizabeth II (G1) winner Lush Lips.
Race 13 is the $225,000 Mac Diarmida (G2) for older horses on the grass led by Layabout, a winner of back-to-back Gulfstream turf stakes including the Jan. 24 William L. McKnight (G3); Grand Sonata, a $2.5 million earner and winner of Gulfstream’s 2022 Kitten’s Joy (G3) who was beaten a head in last year’s Mac Diarmida; and the pair of stakes winners Anegada and Zverev from trainer Mike Maker, who has won the Mac Diarmida five of the last seven years.
Stakes action begins in race 3 with the $200,000 Colonel Liam for 3-year-olds on the grass. Multiple graded-stakes winning millionaire Wolfie’s Dynaghost makes his 8-year-old debut in race 4, the Canadian Turf (G3) for older turf horses. Sister Troienne chases a sixth straight victory in race 6, the Herecomesthebride (G3) for 3-year-old fillies on grass, while two-time Grade 3 winner Knightsbridge will be a heavy favorite to make it three straight in race 7, the Gulfstream Park Mile (G3).
Pools are estimated to reach $750,000 in the 50-cent early Pick 5, for races 1-5, and $1.5 million in the 50-cent late Pick 5, races 10-14.