Royal Palm Meet Enters Final Weekend Saturday

Camacho, Herrera Locked in Tight Race for Meet Title

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 2026 Royal Palm Meet at Gulfstream Park will enter its final weekend Saturday with a 10-race program co-headlined by the $100,000 Benny The Bull and $100,000 Bear’s Den.

First race post is 12:40 ET.

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 starts anew Saturday following last Monday’s mandatory payout that yielded multiple $12,403.04 payoffs.

The Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 5-10 and include both the Benny The Bull, a seven-furlong handicap for 3-year-olds and up, in Race 8 and the Bear’s Den, a mile turf stakes for 3-year-olds, in Race 9.

In the Rainbow 6, the jackpot pool is paid out only 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, the entire pool is disbursed to the bettor or bettors holding tickets with the most winners in the six-race sequence.

A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be offered Monday, closing day of the Royal Palm Meet.

Heading into the final weekend of the Royal Palm Meet, jockeys Samy Camacho and Diego Herrera are tied at the top of the standings with 82 wins apiece. They will clash in the Benny The Bull, Camacho aboard 2-1 morning-line favorite Back Em Up and Herrera on Pure Class, rated second at 3-1 on the morning line.

Camacho has seven mounts Saturday, six Sunday and five Monday. Herrera has seven mounts Saturday, six Sunday and eight Monday.

Meanwhile, Saffie Joseph Jr. is well on his way to a 16th consecutive meet training title at Gulfstream with a 46-35 lead over Victor Barboza Jr.

The 2026 Sunshine Meet will get underway Friday, Sept. 4 with live racing four days a week, Thursday through Sunday.

The $225,000 Princess Rooney (G3), a Breeders’ Cup Challenge ‘Win & You’re In’ stakes for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) at Keeneland Oct. 31, will headline the Sunshine Meet stakes schedule Sept. 12.