Runaway Diva Returns Trainer to Gulfstream Winner’s Circle

Sunday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $300,000
Jockey Samy Camacho Enjoys Four-Win Day Saturday

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Trainer Michelle Hemingway, who saddled her first U.S. winner at Gulfstream Park nearly five years ago, returned to the Hallandale Beach racetrack Saturday to saddle Holly Hill Stables LLC’s Runaway Diva for a victory in the $75,000 Mo Green Handicap.

Runaway Diva ($10) pressed the pace set by 4-5 favorite Indy Bay along the backstretch during a first half-mile in 46.43 seconds before moving to a narrow lead on the turn into the homestretch and drawing away to win by 1 ½ lengths. The 5-year-old daughter of Runhappy, the 123-pound highweight, ran the one-turn mile in 1:36.90, under Samy Camacho, who rode four winners, including Hemingway-trained Americandreammaaker in the first race, Saturday.

Hemingway, who had saddled multiple Grade 1 winners in South Africa while serving as an assistant trainer for Michael de Kock and others before returning to the U.S. to saddle Manor House for a one-turn allowance win at Gulfstream Oct. 16, 2021.

Runaway Diva, who finished fourth in a stakes at Colonial Downs in her 2026 debut, concluded her 2025 campaign with runner-up finishes in the one-turn mile Twixt at Laurel Park and the 1 1/8-mile Delaware Handicap (G2) at Delaware Park following a 6 ½-length romp in a one-turn mile optional claiming allowance at Colonial Downs.

“A one-turn mile, that’s her thing she loves it,” Hemingway said. “But she’s versatile. She was second in the Delaware Handicap going a mile and an eighth in the slop. I think she’s going to have a huge campaign this year.”

Indy Bay, who had raced against graded-stakes company in her five most recent starts, held second under Miguel Vasquez while carrying one pound fewer than the winner. St. Olaf Rose finished a head back in third under Leonel Reyes.

Hemingway is looking forward to saddling many more winners at Gulfstream and elsewhere in the years to come.

“The stable is developing a broodmare band. We have a lot of exciting babies coming up for them, so it’s really exciting,” Hemingway said.

Sunday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $300,000

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is estimated to reach $300,000 for Sunday’s nine-race program at Gulfstream Park.

First race post time is 12:50 p.m.

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved Saturday for the 11th consecutive racing day to open the Royal Palm Meet. The Rainbow 6 last returned multiple mandatory payouts of $41,654.20 March 29 on closing day of the 2025-2026 Championship Meet.

Sunday’s Rainbow 6 opens in Race 4, a maiden special weight for 3-year-olds sprinting six furlongs on the main track. The 9-5 program favorite is No Compromise, an $800,000 son of Into Mischief making his career debut for trainer George Weaver. Trainer Victor Barboza Jr. will send out the unraced pair of One Hundred Kings, by Mendelssohn, and Enticed colt Enchanting Tale.

Race 7 is a six-furlong optional claiming allowance for fillies and mares 3 and up led by Cooey, a 4-year-old daughter of Girvin that has won two of four starts since joining trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. last fall.

Alongcomesawoman exits a front-running claiming victory going 6 ½ furlongs March 6.

Prior to the Rainbow 6 sequence in Race 2 is a maiden special weight for 2-year-olds sprinting 4 ½ furlongs. Arindel won the first 2-year-old race of the season Thursday with the filly Boots and is represented here by the pair of Florida-bred Strike and New York-bred Medieval. Strike, favored at 8-5 on the morning line, is a son of Grade 1-winning freshman sire Roadster out of the Wildcat Heir mare Hardcore Cat whose maternal grandmother is Hardcore Candy, the dam of Grade 1-winning millionaire mare Dorth Vader. He drew the rail against six rivals with Samy Camacho up for trainer Jorge Delgado, who also teamed up on Boots.

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, the entire pool is disbursed to the bettor or bettors holding tickets with the most winners in the six-race sequence.

NOTES: Jockey Samy Camacho enjoyed a four-win day Saturday, sweeping the early daily double with Americandreammaker ($8.80) in Race 1 and Swamp Fox ($6.80) in Race 2, and the late double with Runaway Diva ($10) in Race 10, the $75,000 Mo Green overnight handicap, and Achieve ($) in Race 11 … Jockey Leonel Reyes picked up the first win of his comeback and 998th in North America with Sletwy Princess ($3.40) in Race 3, adding No. 999 with Azam ($26) in Race 7, a maiden special weight for 3-year-olds. Reyes missed 157 days after suffering a fractured left ankle in a Nov. 2 spill at Gulfstream … Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano, who was up for Curlin Florida Derby (G1) runner-up The Puma’s last local breeze ahead of the Kentucky Derby (G1) Saturday morning at Gulfstream, returned to New York to win Aqueduct’s Bay Shore with Solitude Dude. Solitude Dude won Gulfstream’s Swale and was second in the Coolmore Fountain of Youth (G2) during the Championship Meet.