Mandatory Rainbow 6 Yields Multiple $1,209 Payouts

Gulfstream Handicapper Nicoletti Hits Jackpot with $129 Ticket
Pegasus Hero White Abarrio Enjoys Breeze for G3 Ghostzapper
Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. Earns 997th and 998th Gulfstream Wins

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool yielded multiple payoffs of $1,209.24 Sunday at Gulfstream Park.

The popular multi-race wager had gone unsolved for 10 consecutive racing days since the last mandatory payout of $164,292.76 Feb. 15.

A total of $3,606,081 was wagered into the Rainbow 6 Sunday on top of a $447,538.05 carryover from Saturday’s spectacular Coolmore Fountain of Youth (G2) program highlighted by Sovereignty’s dramatic victory over previously unbeaten River Thames in Gulfstream’s final prep for the $1 million Curlin Florida Derby (G1) March 29.

Bulldoze ($5), the 3-2 favorite, captured Sunday’s Race 11 finale to complete the winning 6-9-4-1-7-9 combination. Other winners in the sequence were Tiffany’s Gold ($4.40) in Race 6, Bringer of Rain ($10.80) in Race 7, Table Flirt ($9.60) in Race 8, Dilger ($4) in Race 9 and Corruption ($16.80) in Race 10.

Gulfstream Park handicapper Ron Nicoletti solved the Rainbow 6 with a $129.60 ticket (2-3-6/4-9-10/2-4/1-2-7/7-8-11-13/5-9-12).

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.

On mandatory payout days, however, the entire Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the six-race sequence.

The Rainbow 6 begins anew when the Championship Meet resumes Wednesday with a nine-race program starting at 12:50 p.m.

Wednesday’s sequence spans Races 4-9. Race 5 is an optional claiming allowance scheduled for 7 ½ furlongs on the grass that drew eight older horses including Grade 3 winner Ice Chocolat and Grade 3-placed Classic Mo Town and Johnny Podres. Older horses will sprint 5 ½ furlongs on the all-weather Tapeta course in Race 8, an optional claiming allowance led by 2024 Bob Umphrey Sprint runner-up Takecareofbusiness and Air Force Cruising, a winner of two straight since being moved to the synthetic.

Pegasus Hero White Abarrio Enjoys Breeze for G3 Ghostzapper

C2 Racing Stable LLC, King Faisal bin Khaled bin Abdulaziz al-Saud and Anthony Pagnano’s White Abarrio worked sharply during a half-mile breeze in 47.85 seconds Sunday morning at Gulfstream Park.

The Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained 6-year-old star was credited with the fifth-fastest of 70 workouts recorded at the distance for his second work since capturing the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) Jan. 25.

“He had a very good work. We didn’t let him run much. We just wanted him to enjoy it, and he did,” Joseph said.

White Abarrio, who captured the 2023 Curlin Florida Derby (G1), is being pointed to the $165,000 Ghostzapper (G3) on the March 29 Curlin Florida Derby undercard.

In addition to saddling The Queens M G for a victory in the $215,000 Fasig-Tipton Davona Dale (G2) Saturday at Gulfstream, Joseph notched his first success in Saturday’s Sandy Lane Gold Cup (G1) in his native Barbados. Averill Racing LLC’s Harrow, who finished fifth in the McKnight (G3) on the Pegasus World Cup undercard, captured the island nation’s most prestigious race.

“Growing up as a kid, that was the race always wanted to win. My brother finally won it, which was kind of rewarding when I was 11 years old. I ran in it only once before I left, but I’ve taken horses back the last couple years. Last year, we got beat by a head by Chad Brown and Coolmore the year before. It was a meaningful race Saturday.”

Joseph earned his 997th and 998th career victories at Gulfstream with 3-year-old filly Luvumorgan ($11.80) in Sunday’s opener and 4-year-old colt Dilger ($4) in Race 9.

Who’s Hot: Jockey Emisael Jaramillo rode back-to-back winners Sunday, Tiffany Gold ($4.40) in Race 6 and Bringer of Rain ($10.80) in Race 7 … Tyler Gaffalione also doubled with Rolando ($5.20) in Race 4 and Dilger ($4) in Race 9 … Dilger and Luvumorgan ($11.80) in Race 1 are trained by Saffie Joseph Jr.