Saturday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $200,000

Jockey Jose Morelos to Ride Whatintheliteral in G3 Eight Belles

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be estimated at $200,000 for Saturday’s 11-race program at Gulfstream Park.

Post time is 12:50 p.m.

Saturday’s sequence begins in Race 6, an optional claiming allowance scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on the grass which drew a full field of 11 older horses. Daniel Alonso’s Lorenz won a turf stakes last fall at Remington Park going 1 1/8 miles and exits a fourth in the Feb. 1 Tampa Bay (G3). He’spuregold is a nine-time winner of 30 starts including six stakes, five against New Jersey-breds. The 9-year-old J P Hellish will be making his 62nd start, with 13 wins.

Eleven older fillies and mares were entered in the $75,000 Monroe scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on the grass in Race 9. The 2-1 program favorite is Breath Away, winner of Gulfstream’s 2023 Sanibel Island on the grass. Christophe Clement-trained stablemate Ozara is a two-time stakes winner on the Gulfstream turf. Life’s an Audible captured the 2023 Sweetest Chant (G3) and was second by a neck in the Herecomesthebride (G3) last winter.

The Race 11 finale is a one-mile optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds and up scheduled for the grass that attracted a dozen horses led by lukewarm morning-line favorite Bring Me a Check, an 8-year-old gelding that has been third or better 34 times in 57 starts with eight wins, most recently in a Feb. 26 claiming event on the Gulfstream’s Tapeta. O Captain has won two straight, each at the course and distance, the latter March 16.

In the Rainbow 6, the carryover 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 usually goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.

The Rainbow 6 has gone unsolved for six racing days following a mandatory payout of $6,047.50 April 13.

Jockey Jose Morelos to Ride Whatintheliteral in G3 Eight Belles

HorseOlogy Racing and Craig Steinhart’s stakes winner Whatintheliteral, most recently fourth in the March 29 Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2), will have a familiar rider on her back when she returns to the races next weekend.

Jockey Jose Morelos posted Friday on X, formerly known as Twitter, that trainer Jena Antonucci has awarded the 24-year-old Panama native the mount in the seven-furlong Eight Belles (G3) for 3-year-old fillies on the undercard of the Kentucky Oaks (G1) May 2 at Churchill Downs.

“I am totally happy to be riding [Whatintheliteral] at Churchill Downs next Friday, May 2nd, in the Eight Belles Stakes,” Morelos wrote.

Based year-round at Gulfstream since coming to the U.S. in 2021, Morelos has eight wins at the current Royal Palm Meet which began April 4. He was aboard Whatintheliteral for her season debut in the Gulfstream Park Oaks, whose top two finishers – Five G and Anna’s Promise – are both pointing for the Kentucky Oaks.

Morelos also rode Whatintheliteral to a runner-up finish in the one-mile Hallandale Beach last fall at Gulfstream. Whatintheliteral broke her maiden third time out in the 5 ½-furlong Astoria last summer at Saratoga.

Notes: Jockey Paco Lopez doubled Friday aboard Flat Top Box ($10.60) in Race 5 and Great Shashi ($7.20) in Race 7 … Edgard Zayas swept the late double with Lasso ($8.20) in Race 8 and Back in the Saddle ($4) in Race 9.