Mandatory Payout of Rainbow 6 Scheduled for Saturday

Thursday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $550,000
Ortiz, Jaramillo, D’Angelo Record Wednesday Doubles

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Gulfstream Park will offer a mandatory payout of its 20-cent Rainbow 6 Saturday that could reach an estimated $5 million if there is no unique winning ticket through Friday.

Saturday’s sequence will be bookended by a pair of scheduled grass races. The first leg of the Rainbow 6 will be Race 7, a mile turf event for 4-year-olds and up, while the final leg, Race 12, will be a $75,000 maiden claimer for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles.

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. The carryover jackpot is usually 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.

The fifth leg of the sequence will be the $165,000 Royal Delta (G3) for fillies and mares 4 and up going 1 1/16 miles on the main track. The Royal Delta drew a field of 11 including stakes winners Intrepid Daydream, Riding Pretty and Miss New York. The race also includes stakes-placed Dazzling Move and Grand Job, who ended her 3-year-old season after arriving from Ireland with victories at Aqueduct and Churchill Downs by a total of 14 ¼ lengths. Bill Mott trains.

Thursday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $550,000

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 will have an estimated pool of $550,000 when racing resumes Thursday at Gulfstream Park.

First race post time is 12:20 p.m.

Thursday’s Rainbow 6 sequence kicks off in Race 4 with a maiden special weight for fillies and mares 4 and up going one mile on the main track. Save Time will be making her second start for Championship Meet leading trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. with five seconds and a third from eight prior races.

The feature comes in Race 5, an optional claiming allowance for older fillies and mares scheduled for 1 ½ miles on the grass. Japan-bred and British-raced Three Priests is entered for her fourth U.S. startk most recently running fourth by less than two lengths in Gulfstream’s 1 3/8-mile Via Borghese Dec. 26. Sugaree is set for her first domestic start after winning one of five in her native Ireland.

Race 8 is a maiden special weight or 4-year-olds and up sprinting seven furlongs on the main track. Seven-time winner Thought is the 9-5 program favorite dropping in class and cutting back after a failed two-turn experiment on the all-weather Tapeta course Jan. 19. Self Taught will making his first start since winning a December 2023 claiming event.

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.

There will also be a carryover of $6,512.58 in the $1 Super High Five (Race 9).

Who’s Hot: Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. visited the winner’s circle twice Wednesday with Bold N Breezy ($3.60) in Race 2 and Goats On a Tree ($7.60) in Race 7 … Emisael Jaramillo also doubled with Incanto ($5.20) in Race 6 and Change at Jamaica ($20) in Race 9 … Bold N Breezy and Incanto ($5.20) are both trained by Jose D’Angelo.