Gulfstream’s Mandatory Payout of Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Saturday Estimated at $2 Million

Carryover $184,136
Nicoletti & Perry Handicap the Sequence

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 is set for Saturday at Gulfstream Park, where the popular multi-race wager’s jackpot pool is expected to grow to an estimated $2 million.

Post time for the first of 11 races Saturday is 12:20 p.m.

There will be a carryover of $184,136 entering the Rainbow 6, which went unsolved for an 11th consecutive racing day Friday spanning the final nine days of the fall Sunshine Meet and the first two to open the 2025-2026 Championship Meet.

Saturday’s sequence spans Races 6-11.

Nicoletti & Perry handicap sequence: Click here to view

The sequence kicks off with Race 6 and the $100,000 Sabal Palm overnight handicap for 3-year-olds and up going one mile and 70 yards on the all-weather Tapeta course led by Private Thoughts and Prevent. Private Thoughts won the Jet Propulsion handicap at 1 1/16 miles on the turf Oct. 4, while Prevent captured the Mambo Meister handicap at the course and distance Sept. 6. Classic of Course exits a win in the one-mile Mr. Jordan handicap Nov. 8 on the main track.

Race 7 is an optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds and up scheduled for 7 ½ furlongs on the grass. Stakes winner Spirit Place, twice Grade 3-placed going longer on turf, is the 2-1 program favorite for his first start since Aug. 31. Multiple stakes-placed Eyes on the King races first time for trainer Jose D’Angelo. Dunedin, rated at 15-1, was third beaten 2 ¼ lengths in the Cutler Bay at the course and distance April 1 in his only try at Gulfstream.

Race 8 is a one-mile, 70-yard claimer on Tapeta for fillies and mares 3 and up which drew a full field of 11. China Blue goes for her second straight win in as many starts since being claimed for $8,000 by Beau Chapman Sept. 27. Also exiting victories are Camm’s Princess, a popular four-length winner Nov. 2, and Mamuka, who beat Camm’s Princess at the course and distance Oct. 17.

Race 9 is an optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds and up scheduled for five furlongs on the turf led by 9-year-old multiple stakes winner Xy Speed who chases a 17th career win and looks to build on a $607,851 bankroll owning two wins and three seconds from seven tries this year. Also in for the $62,500 tag is Biz Biz Buzz, third last out in the Bob Umphrey Sprint Sept. 20. Makeit to Cheyenne edged Xy Speed by a head in a similar spot Oct. 26.

Race 10 is the $300,000 In Reality, the finale in the open division of the FTBOA Florida Sire Series for 2-year-olds going two turns at 1 1/16 miles. Trainer Jose D’Angelo sends out the pair of Khozalite, a winner of two straight including the FSS Affirmed Oct. 18, and Prost, who romped by nine lengths in his Oct. 11 unveiling. Also among the 11 entered are Affirmed and Royal Palm Juvenile runner-up Squire; Camigol, second in the FSS Dr. Fager and third in the Saratoga Special (G2); and Brad Cox-trained The Town, runner-up in a $150,000 maiden claimer Oct. 24 at Keeneland in his lone start.

The Race 11 finale is a 1 1/16-mile claimer for 3-year-olds and up scheduled for the grass. Eton adds blinkers racing first time off the claim for trainer Carlos David, who connects at a 32 percent success rate with the move. Volatile Storm’s lone victory came at the distance in a July 30 maiden special weight on the synthetic at Presque Isle Downs. Change at Jamaica makes his third straight start at the condition, most recently third by two lengths Oct. 19.

In the Rainbow 6, the 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.

However, 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.

Immediately prior to the Rainbow 6 in Race 5 is the $300,000 FSS My Dear Girl for 2-year-old fillies where Arindel homebred Mythical is the heavy 1-5 program favorite to earn a fifth win from six starts and fourth in a stakes following the Tremont, Adirondack (G3) and FSS Susan’s Girl Oct 18.