Rainbow 6 mandatory payout set for Summit of Speed program

A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot is set for Saturday’s Summit of Speed program at Gulfstream Park, where there will also be mandatory payouts of the Late Pick 5 and last-race Super Hi-5 pools on the final day of the Spring Meet.

The Rainbow 6 carryover jackpot was $801,668.76 heading into Thursday’s program and is expected to grow to approach $1 million should the popular multi-race wager go unsolved through Friday’s twilight card.

The Rainbow 6 has gone unsolved for 26 consecutive racing days after producing a $101,000 jackpot on May 13, three days after a lucky bettor took down a $1.2 million jackpot through the Lewiston, Maine hub.

The carryover jackpot is routinely paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day’s pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool. However, on mandatory-payout days, all betters with the most winners share in the entire pool.

Saturday’s Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 9-14, and will include the $250,000 Princess Rooney (G2) in Race 12 and the $250,000 Smile Sprint (G3) in Race 13. Curlin’s Approval is scheduled to clash with seven other fillies in mares in her quest to win back-to-back runnings of the Princess Rooney, a seven-furlong sprint that is a designated Breeders’ Cup ‘Win and You’re In’ race that will award the winner a fees-paid berth into the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) at Churchill Downs Nov. 3. Multiple graded-stakes winner X Y Jet looms as an odds-on favorite in the Smile, a six-furlong dash in which he will make his first start since finishing second in the $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1) at Meydan March 28.

First-race post time for Saturday’s 14-race card is set for 11:55 a.m.