Saturday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $75,000

Late Night Text Favored Over Six Rivals in $100,000 Azalea
Trainer Steve Klesaris Registers Friday Hat Trick
Diego Herrera’s 7-Day Multi-Win Streak Snapped Friday

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is estimated to grow to $75,000 for Saturday’s 11-race program at Gulfstream Park.

First race post time is 12:20 p.m.

Friday marked the first racing day since the popular multi-race wager was solved by one lucky bettor for a $110,002.26 jackpot payout June 14. A mandatory payout is scheduled for the Father’s Day holiday program Sunday, when the pool is estimated to reach $500,000 if not solved before then.

Saturday’s sequence spans Races 6-11, led off by a maiden special weight for Florida-bred 2-year-olds sprinting 4 ½ furlongs on the main track. The 9-5 program favorite is Arindel’s Roadster colt Strike, beaten as the favorite in his first two starts now with his third trainer, Nick Tomlinson. From outermost Post 8 comes another son of Roadster, Road to Midnight, making his career debut for Champion Equine and trainer David Braddy.

Race 8 is a maiden special weight for Florida-bred 3-year-olds and up going six furlongs on the main track that drew a field of seven led by Vegso Racing Stables Inc.’s Woodster, a sophomore son of Quality Road that is winless in four tries against open company. Classy Prince, second in debut May 16 at the course and distance, races first off a $25,000 claim for trainer Ronald Coy.

The feature comes in Race 10, the $100,000 Azalea for 3-year-old fillies sprinting seven furlongs on the main track, where six of the seven entrants exit victories. Late Night Text, a maiden winner at the course and distance April 23 in her sixth start and first for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., is the 9-5 program favorite. Joe Orseno-trained Winplaceandshow makes her stakes debut off back-to-back wins, while Flowko was twice stakes-placed before a dominant last-out allowance win May 31 at Gulfstream.

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.

Note: Jockey Edwin Gonzalez swept Friday’s late daily double with Noble J ($3.40) in Race 8 and Shinigami ($11.60) in Race 9 … Shinigami completed a hat trick for trainer Steve Klesaris, following My Girl Nina ($8.20) in Race 2 and Landman Friday ($3.40) in Race 3 … A winner aboard My Girl Nina, jockey Diego Herrera had his streak of multi-win racing days snapped at seven Friday. He continues to lead the Royal Palm Meet rider standings, 53-52, over Samy Camacho, who won Race 5 with Troops ($8).