Friday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $250,000

Timeout Makes Triumphant Season Debut in Thursday Feature

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 will have an estimated pool of $250,000 when racing resumes Friday at Gulfstream Park.

Friday’s sequence spans Races 4-9, opening with a $6,250 claiming event for 4-year-olds and up at one mile on the main track. Bringer of Rain was second by a length in a similar spot Dec. 22, while Trappezoid exits a 1 ¾-length victory sprinting seven furlongs for $8,000 Jan. 5 at Tampa Bay Downs.

The feature comes in Race 8, an entry level optional claiming allowance for Florida-bred fillies and mares 4 and up going five furlongs on the all-weather Tapeta. D. J. Stable’s Entrepreneurship will be making her third career start and first in 2025 after winning her Nov. 30 debut and finishing second at a similar level Dec. 26. David’s Rose, who beat Entrepreneurship that day for her second straight win, also returns.

The Rainbow 6 jackpot 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.

Timeout Makes Triumphant Season Debut in Thursday Feature

Adele Dilschneider and Claiborne Farm’s stakes-placed Timeout, racing for the first time at Gulfstream Park in his 4-year-old debut, came with a steady run under jockey Junior Alvarado to win Thursday’s optional claiming allowance feature.

Trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott, Timeout ($7) had not raced since finishing sixth, with Alvarado up, facing older horses in an open one-mile allowance Nov. 10 at Aqueduct. Alvarado was also up for the Curlin colt’s graduation in a maiden special weight last June.

“He’s a horse that we’ve always been pretty high on,” Alvarado said. “He’s the kind of horse that you have to really ride him very hard the whole way around. You don’t give him a chance to think because I think he gets a little lost out there. He ran very well today.”

Alvarado settled Timeout in third outside of God’s Timing as Who’s the King set a pace of 24.60 seconds for a quarter-mile and 47.05 for the half. Once straightened for home, Timeout emerged from a tight group and edged clear as 25-1 long shot The Thor came up the rail for second. The winning time was 1:37.61 for one mile over a fast main track.

“I went and worked him last week and I know Bill was kind of pointing to maybe try him on the turf, but he worked so well that I told Bill I thought we should take a chance on the dirt,” Alvarado said. “It’s a different dirt here at Gulfstream and he had never run here. I thought he might get a good feeling on this track, and it worked out.”

Malarchuk, a son of Nyquist racing for the first time since his eye-catching maiden triumph last April, trailed the field early and wound up fifth of six. His Grade 2-placed Chad Brown-trained stablemate, Preakness (G1) fourth-place finisher Tuscan Gold, was scratched.