Friday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $150,000

Watch and Wager on Breeders’ Cup Simulcasts Friday and Saturday
Makeit to Cheyenne Upsets Xy Speed in Sunday Feature

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is expected to grow to an estimated $150,000 Friday when the Sunshine Meet continues at Gulfstream Park.

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved Sunday for the sixth racing day following a mandatory payout.

Gulfstream racing fans will also have the chance to watch and wager on the Breeders’ Cup races via simulcasts from Del Mar Friday and Saturday while rooting on the several local- interests contenders, such as Pegasus World Cup (G1) hero White Abarrio (Dirt Mile), Fountain of Youth (G2) winner and Kentucky Derby (G1) champ Sovereignty (Classic), Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies winner Lennilu (Juvenile Turf Sprint), Pegasus World Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G2) winner Be Your Best (Filly & Mare Turf), trainer Jose D’Angelo’s speedsters Bentornato (Sprint) and Shisospicy (Turf Sprint), and many more.

Friday’s Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 5-10, headlined by the $75,000 Cellars Shiraz, a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for 3-year-old fillies, in Race 10. Steve Dwoskin-trained Starship Impulsive, whose four-race winning streak on turf was snapped with a close-up second-place finish on Tapeta in the Ginger Punch Handicap, will make a bid to get back to her winning ways while taking on nine other sophomore fillies in the Cellars Shiraz.

In the Rainbow 6, the carryover pool is only 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. On mandatory payout days, the entire Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is disbursed to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the six-race sequence.

Makeit to Cheyenne Upsets Xy Speed in Sunday Feature

D. J. Stable’s 3-year-old gelding Makeit to Cheyenne, unraced in two months, made a triumphant return to South Florida by getting his nose down in the final jump and deny multiple-stakes winner Xy Speed a 17th career victory Sunday at Gulfstream Park.

Ridden by Edgard Zayas for trainer Joe Orseno, Makeit to Cheyenne ($30.20) covered five furlongs over a firm turf course in 54.86 seconds for his third win and first since an optional claiming triumph over Gulfstream’s all-weather Tapeta course March 7. He was winless in four subsequent starts at as many racetracks, racing on both turf and synthetic, the most recent Aug. 23.

Xy Speed, six years older and carrying three more pounds than Makeit to Cheyenne, had himself not started since Aug. 2, entered several times but scratched when races came off the turf. Trained by Michael Lerman, he was aiming for a 15th lifetime win at the distance and 10th over the local course.

Zayas rated Makeit to Cheyenne in third as Esperon broke running and led through a blazing opening quarter-mile in 20.39 seconds, while Emisael Jaramillo positioned Xy Speed in fifth along the rail. The half went in 43.04 with Esperon clinging to a lead that evaporated once straightened for home. Maintaining a straight path down the center of the stretch, Makeit to Cheyenne got the jump on Xy Speed, who tipped off the rail near the eighth pole and dug in between horses before coming up just short.

“I wanted him to be forwardly placed because he worked really well here, [and] he liked Florida when he was here. Then I shipped him all around and he kind of went downhill a little bit, but it looks like he’s back,” Orseno said. “That was a big comeback race. It was a really good field, but he beat a really good horse. He ran big today.”

Notes: Jockey Edgard Zayas tripled Sunday aboard Makeit to Cheyenne ($30.20) in Race 5, Sapphire Girl ($15) in Race 7 and Neshume ($7.80) in Race 8 … Both Neshume and Popstyle ($18.60) in Race 6 are trained by Laura Cazares … Jockey Leonel Reyes picked up career wins No. 996 on Wrecking Ball ($5) in Race 2 and No. 997 on Snitch Dorada ($5) in Race 10.