Mandatory Payout of Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Sunday

Carryover at $558,781, Pool Expected to Reach $4.5 Million
Jockey Edgard Zayas Registers Four-Win Day Saturday

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is estimated to reach $4.5 million for Sunday’s mandatory payout of the popular multi-race wager at Gulfstream Park to close the second weekend of the spring-summer Royal Palm Meet.

Post time for the first of 10 races is 12:50 p.m.

Ron Nicoletti and Samantha Perry on Sunday’s Rainbow 6: Click here to view

The Rainbow 6 went unsolved Saturday for the 11th consecutive racing day since being hit for a $121,198.50 payout May 21. A planned mandatory payout for March 30 was scrapped when live racing was canceled midway through the closing day program of the 2024-2025 Championship Meet.

There will be a carryover of $558,781.56 heading into Sunday’s Rainbow 6, which spans Races 5-10. The sequence opens with a 1 1/16-mile turf claiming event for 3-year-old fillies or fillies and mares 4 and up which have never won two races. I Love Venezuela moves back to the grass after back-to-back runner-up finishes on the all-weather Tapeta. Down in the Bayou, third or better in six of 10 synthetic starts, tries turf for the first time.

Race 6 is a maiden special weight for 3-year-old fillies sprinting six furlongs. The 9-5 program favorite cuts back to one turn and returns to dirt after finishing fifth in a 1 1/16-mile spot on grass Dec. 22. Among her rivals are first-time starters by Complexity (Tater Tot), Cajun Breeze (Who Lil Lady) and Maximum Security (Oh Margot).

Eight older horses are set to line up in Race 7, a seven-furlong claiming sprint, led by Thought, a 6-year-old son of Street Sense chasing a ninth career victory in his 30 start, having won at the course and distance Feb. 13. The competition includes fellow eight-time winner Self Taught, making his third start off a lengthy layoff; Luni Sima, third or better in 15 of 34 races; and Belts ‘n Brooks, racing third off the claim for trainer Nolan Ramsey.

A dozen sophomore fillies were entered in Race 8, an optional claiming allowance for 3-year-old fillies scheduled for five furlongs on the grass. May Mischief returns after debuting with a front-running victory over older horses on Tapeta March 5. Also exiting victories are Don’t Tell Tammo, Shesinamood and Bedtime, the latter two coming off lengthy layoffs.

The co-feature comes in Race 9, an optional claiming allowance for fillies and mares 3 and up going 1 1/8 miles on the Tapeta. Tape Runner, unraced since Nov. 30, hit the board in her last three synthetic starts last summer and fall. North End Lady will be trying Tapeta for the first time in her second race since joining trainer David Fawkes. Escape Room and Goa both own multiple wins over the surface.

Sunday’s Race 10 finale is a maiden special weight scheduled for 7 ½ furlongs on the grass that attracted 10 3-year-old fillies, four of them first-time starters including Timeless Wonder, by Not This Time; Yes It Tiz, a daughter of Tiz the Law; and Live Oak Plantation homebred Souper Williwaw, by Hard Spun. Yesterday adds blinkers and Lasix in her season debut after finishing off the board in two turf tries last year.

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 usually 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 paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the wager’s six-race sequence.

Notes: Jockey Edgard Zayas completed a four-win day Saturday with Insubordination ($8.80) in the Race 10 finale. Zayas’ other winners were Miso Spicy ($3.40) in Race 4, Royalty Rate ($15) in Race 6 and Slew Diva ($8.20) in Race 7 … Jockey Taylor Kinglsey, the 19-year-old daughter of trainer and ex-rider Arch Kingsley Jr., scored her first professional win with Princetown ($32.20) for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott in Race 9.