Santa Anita's Rainbow Pick 6 payout could top $3 million

With average field size in Santa Anita’s Hollywood Meet closing day’s Rainbow Pick Six at better than 10 horses per race, the table is set for a 12-race program that will start with an early Father’s Day first post time of 3 p.m. EDT.

With a Rainbow Six carryover from Saturday of $346,135.92, track officials project Sunday’s total Rainbow Six pool could exceed $3 million.

The 20-cent Rainbow Pick Six, which will be composed of races 7 through 12, attracted 67 entries, with 63 horses eligible to run. Approximate post time for Sunday’s seventh race is at 6 p.m. EDT.

In addition to the Rainbow Six, there will be mandatory payouts in all exotic wagers.

The 12-race program will start with the $100,000 Possibly Perfect Stakes, for fillies and mares at 1 1/4 miles on turf, carded as race 1. Defending Possibly Perfect champ Neige Blanche, who is trained by Leonard Powell, and Phil D’Amato’s consistent Buzz of New York have been installed as co-favorites at 9-5 on Jon White’s morning line.

Sunday’s main event is the Grade 3 San Juan Capistrano Stakes, for 3-year-olds and up at about 1 3/4 miles over Santa Anita’s hillside turf course. Carded as 5 five, the 84th running of the San Juan attracted a field of six, with trainer Michael McCarthy’s Offlee Naughty, a winner of two consecutive graded stakes at Santa Anita this year, the 4-5 morning-line choice.