Saudi Cup Possible for White Abarrio

Mandatory Payout of Ranbow 6 Returns $37,865

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. called Saturday’s Pegasus World Cup Day at Gulfstream Park as “one of the best days of my career.”

Not only did Joseph saddle Be Your Best to victory in the TAA Pegasus World Cup Filly & Mate Turf (G2) presentation by SirDavis American Whisky and Mystic Lake in the Inside Information (G2), but he capped off his day by winning the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) with White Abarrio.

“In general, you win with Mystic Lake and you win with Be Your Best, that would be a great day in its own right,” Joseph said. “To have the story unfold with White Abarrio. It comes full circle and to end like that, it’s almost like a movie. A dream, basically.”

Joseph said White Abarrio, Be Your Best, Mystic Lake and Skippylongstocking, who finished third in the Pegasus World Cup, “all bounced out well.”

“The ownership group is going to speak to each other and decide on what happens with [White] Abarrio. The Saudi Cup is possible.”

Mandatory Payout of Ranbow 6 Returns $37,865

Sunday’s mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 returned $37,865.68.

There was $4,115,143 of new money in the Rainbow 6 and a carryover of $559,027.

The sequence began with Corruption ($17) winning Race 6 and concluded with Classic Q ($11.80) winning the 11th and final race while breaking his maiden in his second career start.

On mandatory-payout days, the entire Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the wager’s six-race sequence. The carryover jackpot is usually 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.

Solid Left Game Winner

Susan and Jim Hill’s homebred 3-year-old Solid Left won Sunday’s seventh race; a $94,000 maiden special weight event run on the main track at 1 1/16 mile. After finishing eighth in his debut here Dec. 28 at seven furlongs, Solid Left was rated fourth by jockey Luis Saez down the backstretch before moving three wide entering the stretch and then gamely holding off Tiger Twenty Four by 2 ½ lengths while covering the distance in 1:45.24

“He had to dig in there,” said trainer Brian Lynch of the son of West Coast. “It was one of those Luis Saez powerful rides. The horse kept responding to his riding. Whenever you’ve got a 3-year-old that can get around two turns this time of year there’s a glimmer of hope.”