Saturday’s Rainbow 6 Pool Estimate $425,000

Tropical Turf Pick 3 Features Solid Group in First Leg

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL –The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot at Gulfstream Park will have an estimated pool of $425,000 when racing resumes Saturday with a 12:20 ET first race post.

Gulfstream’s 12-race card will be highlighted by four turf races including the $140,000 Ladies Turf Sprint.

The Rainbow 6 sequence begins Saturday with Race 7, an evenly matched group of claimers on Tapeta going 5 ½ furlongs.

Things get interesting in Race 8, a maiden special weight event for 3-year-olds at six furlongs. It’s a wide-open event with a tepid 4-1 favorite in Crudo, a $350,000 son of Triple Crown winner Justify trained by Todd Pletcher and owned by Bobby Flay and James Ventura. Out of the unraced mare Blossomed, a daughter of Deputy Minister, the Crudo comes in with a couple ‘bullet’ works dating back to November at Palm Beach Downs.

Crudo will be joined by Harbe (Rohan Crichton), Summer Vibes (Brendan Walsh), and X Y Prime (Jorge Delgado), all making their debut. King Express makes his third start for trainer Mark Casse and first on Lasix and as a gelding.

The featured $140,000 Ladies Turf Sprint goes as Race 10 with Just a Care going for her third consecutive win and second consecutive stakes win for trainer Brian Lynch. Karaya, second behind Just a Care in the Dec. 28 Abundantia, returns as well. Blind Spot draws the rail for leading trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. and jockey Edgard Zayas.

The Rainbow 6 will conclude with Race 12, a mile turf event for 3-year-olds. It’s another wide-open affair with another tepid 4-1 choice in I’m Due, who broke his maiden by four lengths last out here at 7 ½ furlongs. Trainer Jose D’Angelo sends out Dreams of Myfather, claimed from a victory in a maiden $25,000, and Win With Faith, who broke his maiden for $35,000 last time out.

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.

Tropical Turf Pick 3 Features Strong Group in First Leg

Saturday’s Tropical Turf Pick 3, which includes the Ladies Turf Sprint and Race 12, starts with one of the best races of the day in Race 4, a $94,000 maiden special weight event for 3-year-olds on the mile course with horses coming from the stables of Pletcher, Graham Motion, Bill Mott, Mark Casse, Brendan Walsch, Saffie Joseph Jr., Chad Brown, Rusty Arnold and Cherie DeVaux.

Brown saddles Juddmonte’s Salamis, third Dec. 7 here under the same conditions. Excite finished fourth, beaten a length in his debut, for Mott. Pletcher sends out Cipher, a $500,000 son of Street Sense, and Battle Drum, a son of Siyouni purchased for nearly $400,000. Calling on Heroes was third in his debut at six furlongs on the man track in October at Churchill Downs for DeVaux. Joseph will try Eleven Bravo on the turf for the first time. The son of Uncle Mo breaks from the outside 12 post. Sir Oscar (Motion) and Then What (Victoria Oliver) make their debut.