Gulfstream: Rainbow 6 mandatory payout should hit $1 million
A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 wager will be made Sunday at Gulfstream Park, where the jackpot pool is estimated to surpass $1 million.
Post time for the first of 10 races is 12:50 p.m. EDT. The Rainbow 6 sequence begins with race 5 at 2:56 p.m.
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In the Rainbow 6 the jackpot 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 that 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 jackpot pool is paid to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the wager’s six-race sequence. The most recent Rainbow 6 returned $4,220.26 on a mandatory payout June 29.
Long shots Centerfold Guy and Stone Cold Flex were live to take down the Rainbow 6 for a $159,220.84 payout heading into Saturday’s race 11 finale, won by 13-1 Titan and creating a carryover of $98,693 for Sunday.
Sunday’s sequence begins in race 5, a claiming event for 3-year-olds and up going one mile and 70 yards on the synthetic Tapeta course. Rashid, a sophomore son of Kitten’s Joy, chases a third straight win and first on the synthetic after back-to-back, front-running turf victories at Gulfstream. Try to Make Cents and Refined Honor also come in off last-out wins.
Race 6 is a maiden special weight for 2-year-olds sprinting six furlongs on the main track. They are led by Thaar, a $350,000 son of Charlatan who is among six first-time starters in the field of eight that includes José D’Angelo-trained stablemate Malbec. In his June 13 unveiling going five furlongs at Gulfstream, Malbec pressed the pace on the inside before tiring to be fourth.
Nine fillies and mares, 3 and up, are set to go 5 1/2 furlongs on the Tapeta in race 7. They include Blonde Jak, who has been third or better in each of her last six starts. Most recently she finished second as the favorite May 25 under similar conditions, though she drops to a $25,000 claiming tag Sunday. Smile Po also takes a drop following a third against elders June 14, beaten by two lengths.
Carroll’s Honor is the program favorite in race 8, a claiming event for fillies and mares, 3 and up, set for 6 1/2 furlongs on the main track. She comes in off a front-running, 7 1/2-length romp June 26 at Gulfstream sprinting three-quarters of a mile. It was the third win from eight starts for the chestnut daughter of Curlin’s Honor, the prior two coming at Tampa Bay Downs. Wink of an Eye, with a record of 10: 2-2-1, will be racing first off the claim for trainer Carlos David.
Sunday’s feature comes in race 9, an open stakes-quality allowance for 3-year-olds and up sprinting 5 1/2 furlongs on the Tapeta. Gabaldon, racing for the first time as a gelding and with Lasix, makes his synthetic debut. He captured Gulfstream’s Royal Palm Juvenile and ran second in the 2024 Windsor Castle at Royal Ascot. In his only other start the Florida-bred son of Gone Astray was third after setting the pace in the March 22 Texas Glitter, also on the grass at Gulfstream. Mr Narcissistic, an eight-time winner who never has been worse than third in 13 tries with seven victories on the Gulfstream Tapeta; Cruzin Man, third or better in 13 of 21 career starts; and Torch Is Passed, who owns four wins and one second in seven Tapeta races at Gulfstream also are among the race 9 contenders.
The race 10 finale is a claiming event for maidens, 3 and up, set for 5 1/2 furlongs on the Tapeta. No Bills Campaign, racing as a new gelding, is the 2-1 program favorite after being off the board in two prior starts for trainer Kent Sweezey. D’Angelo sends out Sigan Viendo, who cuts back on two races at a mile or longer including a runner-up finish going two turns April 3. Migratory has two thirds in three races on the Gulfstream Tapeta.
There also will be a carryover of $5,897.15 in the $1 Super Hi-5 in race 10.