Pegasus Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $1 Million

Guns Loaded, Ferocious Nominated to Holy Bull

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 will have an estimated pool of $1 million when racing resumes Pegasus World Cup Day, and there will be a mandatory payout Sunday.

The Rainbow 6 sequence begins with the $165,000 Fred W. Hooper (G3) at a mile for 4-year-olds and up. Harlan’s Holiday (G3) winner Rocket Can is the 5-2 morning-line favorite. The rest of the sequence is the $215,000 W.L. McKnight (G3), the TAA Pegasus World Cup Filly & Mare presented by SirDavis American Whiskey, the $215,000 Inside Information (G2), the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1) presented by Qatar Racing, and $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1).

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.

Guns Loaded, Ferocious Nominated to Holy Bull

Mucho Macho Man winner Guns Loaded and Breeders’ Futurity (G1) and Hopeful (G1) runner-up Ferocious are nominated to next Saturday’s $250,000 Holy Bull (G3) for 3-year-olds at Gulfstream Park.

The Holy Bull is one of five stakes, four graded, on the Feb. 1 program. Other stakes are the $150,000 Kitten’s Joy (G3) and $150,000 Sweetest Chant (G3), both on the turf, the $150,000 Fasig-Tipton Forward Gal (G3) and $150,000 Swale.

Guns Loaded, a winner of two of three starts for trainer Jose D’Angelo, is scheduled to put in his final work Saturday for the 1 1/16-mile Holy Bull, a race that has been won in the past by Audible, Tiz the Law, White Abarrio, Dialed In and Barbaro.

D’Angelo said Friday Guns Loaded, second in his debut at Saratoga in August at seven furlongs before winning his second start at Churchill Downs at six furlongs in November, is doing “excellent” since winning the one-mile Mucho Macho Man by a diminishing neck. In the Holy Bull he’ll be asked to go another sixteenth of a mile

“Before he ran first time out, I was certain he was a two-turn horse,” D’Angelo said. “That’s why I run seven furlongs. When he showed me his speed, I cut the distance to six and he won impressively. When we went to a mile, [jockey Luis] Saez told me after the race when he feels another horse he gets to running again. In the mornings he looks like he can do it. Hopefully, he can carry his speed.”

Others nominated include Burnham Square, a nine-length winner when breaking his maiden here Dec. 28; Burning Glory, who broke his maiden in his third start at Churchill Downs; Grey Stakes (G3) winner He’s Not Joking; Keep It Easy and Kinetic Control from the barn of Dale Romans, and Tappan Street, a debut winner for Brad Cox.

NOTES: Tucson, a $1.3 million son of Constitution, survived a trainer’s inquiry to win Friday’s seventh race and break his maiden after finishing fourth here in his debut Dec. 21. Ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr. and trained by Todd Pletcher, Tucson covered the mile and 70-yard Tapeta track in 1:38.61.