Rainbow 6 Mandatory Payout Caps New Year’s Weekend

Sunday’s Estimated Jackpot Pool Could Reach $3 Million
Sequence Includes 3 on Turf, Maiden Special Weight
Carryover $337,274

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The first weekend of 2025 will end with a mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 Sunday at Gulfstream Park, where the estimated jackpot pool is estimated to reach $3 million.

Saturday marked the ninth consecutive racing day that the popular multi-race wager went unsolved since being hit for a $244,071.70 payout Dec. 21, just three racing days after one lucky bettor scored a $489,592.94 payoff Dec. 15. The carryover going into Sunday’s program is $337,274.34.

Gulfstream’s Ron Nicoletti and Samantha Perry handicap Sunday’s Rainbow 6:

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Sunday’s sequence spans Races 5-10 and begins with a $94,000 maiden special weight event for 3-year-old fillies at a mile on the turf, with an approximate post time of 2:14 p.m. ET. The dozen entered include Just Silvia (trainer Todd Pletcher), Sol d’Oro (Christophe Clement), Tellus Mater (Graham Motion), In the Wild (Shug McGaughey), Crystalaire (George Weaver), Sweet Surrender (Bill Mott), Close Up (Cherie DeVaux), and Cocktail Kisses and Goal, both from the barn of Mark Casse.

Race 6 is a starter optional claimer for 4-year-olds and up going 1 1/16 miles on the all-weather Tapeta that drew a field of seven led by Imaginary Stables’ 8-5 program favorite Be Like Clint, moving from turf to the synthetic where the 6-year-old gelding owns a record of 5-6-2 from 19 starts. Hot Blooded will race first off the claim for trainer Carlos David, who connects at 36 percent with the move.

Ten 3-year-old maidens are set to line up for a claiming event at 1 1/16 miles on the Tapeta in Race 7. Chanticleer, a $725,000 son of Not This Time, adds Lasix off two prior starts, both on turf, for Pletcher, who also entered a $375,000 son of Tiz the Law in Promissione, who will wear blinkers after running eighth in his lone start at 2 Dec. 7 on the Gulfstream turf. War Commander was second as the favorite in a one-mile, 70-yard maiden claimer Dec. 12 on Tapeta.

Race 8 is an entry-level optional claiming allowance for 4-year-olds and up scheduled for 1 ½ miles on the grass. L’Antharis, a two-time winner in his native France, has run second in two North American starts, both last year going 1 3/8 miles. The Ginger Wizard races for the first time as a gelding after finishing fourth, beaten 2 ¼ lengths, in Gulfstream’s two-mile H. Allen Jerkens Dec. 7. Harry Hood ran second by a nose in the 1 ½-mile Pan American (G2) last March.

Sunday’s feature comes in Race 9, an open one-mile, 70-yard allowance for 3-year-old fillies on the Tapeta. War Signal, a 4 ¼-length winner at the distance Dec. 7 on the synthetic at Woodbine, is the 8-5 morning-line favorite for Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse. Hello Hello Hello is a two-time winner going the distance over the Gulfstream course, while Smile Po has two wins and a second in three tries on the Gulfstream Tapeta.

The sequence concludes with Race 10, another $94,000 turf event for maiden fillies and mares at a mile. Just So Pretty was beaten a head and two lengths in maiden special weight events on the turf at Saratoga and Aqueduct. El Zain is a $700,000 4-year-old daughter of Medaglia d’Oro making her debut.

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.