Sunday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $500,000

Sequence Includes Three on the Turf
Tomasello Wins the San Cristobal
Walsh, Gaffalione and Castellano Win Three

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is estimated to reach $500,000 when racing resumes Sunday at Gulfstream Park.

First race post time is 12:20 a.m. ET.

The sequence will kick off with Race 6, a mile turf event for $25,000 3-year-old maiden claimers. It’s a wide-open field of 12 including Herbstreit, who goes out first time off the claim after a second-place finish against $17,500 claimers. Gandor also comes off a second-place finish against this company while Rules of the Road drops in company for trainer Shug McGaughey.

Seven 3-year-olds go 1 1/8 miles in Race 7. The allowance optional claimer includes Sure to Appeal, who returns to the main track after a spin around the turf for Brian Lynch. Thunder Chuck is the 9-5 favorite off a third-place finish behind eventual Fountain of Youth (G2) winner Commandment in the Jan. 3 Mucho Macho Man.

A dozen 3-year-olds go to post in Race 8, a 1 1/8 miles event on the turf. Making their second career starts include Gondorff and Minataur for trainer Danny Gargan, and Magical Factor for Rachel Halden. Rockon Rockall (Saffie Joseph Jr.) and The Big Guava (Brendan Walsh) make their debut.

The sequence concludes with Race 11, a 1 1/8 miles turf race for 3-year-old fillies. Candy Rockette, a $500,000 daughter of Constitution, enters off an eighth-place finish in her debut while Alluring Beauty, a $575,000 daughter of Medaglia d’Oro, enters off a second-place finish over Tapeta.

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.

Tomasello Wins the San Cristobal

Tomasello, owned by Ironhorse Racing Stable LLC and T-N-T Equine Holdings LLC and trained by Mark Casse, was eased off the pacesetters down the backstretch by jockey Javier Castellano before running down Horsepower down the stretch to win the $100,000 San Cristobal.

A 4-year-old colt by Authentic, Tomasello covered a mile and 70-yard Tapeta course in 1:39.14. After breaking his maiden in his fifth start, Tomasello was third in the Audubon at Churchill Downs in May and first in the Preview Nashville Derby in August at Ellis Park. Tomasello came into the race off a six-month layoff.

“The horse came into the race off a layoff but an excellent job by the trainer and assistant trainer,” Castellano said. “You can see he was sharp. He wanted to go to the lead, but I didn’t want to hook the speed [of Prevent and Horsepower]. So, I backed up a little bit down the backside and targeted the speed. When I angled outside in the stretch he leveled off and took off.”

Favored Horsepower was second. Pacesetter Prevent, who helped set fractions of :23.41 and :46.18, was sixth.

Walsh, Gaffalione and Castellano Win Three

Trainer Brendan Walsh and jockeys Tyler Gaffalione and Javier Castellano won three stakes Saturday.

Walsh saddled Lush Lips to victory in the Honey Fox (G3), Lion Lake in the Herecomesthebride (G3), and Vasy to victory in the Colonel Liam. Gaffalione was aboard Lion Lake, Lush Lips and Grand Sonata in the Mac Diarmida ((G2), while Castellano was aboard Tiz Dashing in the Canadian Turf (G3), Just Basking in the The Very One (G3), and Tomasello in the San Cristobal.