Undefeated Filly Adios Tootsie Returns Monday at Gulfstream

3YOG Stablemate Bolero Bay Owns Three Wins at Royal Palm Meet
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HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Shadybrook Farm, Inc.’s undefeated Florida homebred Adios Tootsie, unraced since early March, will face five other 3-year-old fillies including stakes-placed Canton, Flowko and Secane when she returns to action Monday at Gulfstream Park.

Post time for the first of nine races is 12:20 p.m.

Adios Tootsie drew the rail in Race 3, an optional claiming allowance for sophomore fillies sprinting six furlongs on the main track. The chestnut daughter of Cajun Breeze is the only horse entered for the $75,000 tag.

“She’s doing well,” trainer Michael Yates said. “We’re excited to get her back going.”

Both of Adios Tootsie’s wins came in front-running fashion over the winter at Tampa Bay Downs. She cruised by 1 ½ lengths over next-out winner May Gray in her Jan. 10 unveiling and returned to beat winners by a neck March 1, both going Monday’s distance.

“She always showed that she had above average talent. It just took us a while to kind of get her going,” Yates said. “As a 2-year-old she was, I’d say, probably very immature and working better than her maturity really allowed her to. We had some shin issues with her so we had to back off her and give her some time, then we got her ready to go the beginning of her 3-year-old year. She certainly looks like she’s all right.”

Adios Tootsie had a mid-May breeze over the turf course at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream’s satellite training facility in Palm Beach County, and was under consideration for the 5 ½-furlong Monmouth County for 3-year-old fillies on the grass July 5 at Monmouth Park. She has had six subsequent dirt works for her comeback, the most recent a maintenance half-mile in 51.96 seconds July 13 at Gulfstream.

“I just gave her a little freshening at the farm after her second race. Then we moved over to Palm Meadows and she started breezing again and doing well,” Yates said. “We’ve just really had a hard time finding a spot for her. I had nominated her to a grass stake at Monmouth that ran a couple of weeks ago and was contemplating going there with her, but I just felt like the travel was going to be probably too much.

“I’m not big on shipping small fillies around the country,” he added. “They might throw you a big race, but then you might be two months getting back to that point. So, we opted to stay at Gulfstream and wait for this race to go.”

Royal Palm Meet leading rider Diego Herrera will be ride Adios Tootsie for the first time and carry 122 pounds, two more than each of her rivals.

Canton most recently finished third in the six-furlong Game Face May 23 at Gulfstream, 2 ½ lengths behind multiple stakes-winning runner-up Lennilu, who would be placed first following the disqualification to second of Love Like Lucy for interference. Flowko was third in back-to-back state-bred sprint stakes this spring, including Gulfstream’s Sophomore Fillies Sprint April 25. Unraced since March 28, Secane has been off the board in her last two starts after running third as the favorite in the 2025 Tempted at Aqueduct and Jan. 1 Cash Run at Gulfstream, both going one mile.

Yates also trains Mast Thoroughbreds’ 3-year-old Florida-bred Basin gelding Bolero Bay, whose third win from four starts at the Royal Palm Meet was a popular 3 ¼-length starter optional claiming triumph July 12.

“He came out of the race good. He was tired, it was a pretty hot day and he gave a very honest effort, but I really feel like he’s moving forward,” Yates said. “He’s running very well. He’s kind of a really cool horse.”

Bolero Bay began his career on the dirt, running seventh in a maiden special weight and eighth in a maiden optional claimer last fall, before Yates put him on turf for his season debut Jan. 4, a 7 ½-furlong maiden claiming triumph at Gulfstream. He has won three of his four grass starts including Gulfstream’s May 2 English Channel, and was second in the June 6 Not Surprising on the all-weather Tapeta course.

“From the beginning, I was pretty confident that he had talent,” Yates said. “When we started him on the dirt the first couple times, the first time I always kind of throw out because [with] first-time starters you never really know. Then we ran him back and we got the same thing and I said, ‘This horse has got to be grass.’ So, it looks like I was right one time.”

After giving him one race a month since April and six starts this year, Yates is in no hurry to run Bolero Bay back.

“We’ll talk it over with the owner and everything, but I don’t think that he’s a horse that we want to just keep jamming right back in there,” he said. “I think he’ll need a little space between this one and the next one. Hot summer days and a big effort, you don’t want to go to the well too many times too quick.”

Mandatory Rainbow 6 Payout, Summer Sweep Pick 5 Monday

A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool and a noteworthy sequence in the $1 Summer Sweep Pick 5 highlight Monday’s 10-race program at Gulfstream Park.

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

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The Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is expected to grow to an estimated $400,000 Monday. The popular multi-race wager returned multiple mandatory payoffs of $48,609.94 July 13.

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.

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Monday’s Rainbow 6 spans Races 4-9. The sequence overlaps the Summer Sweep Pick 5, the recently introduced innovative, player-friendly wager with a 15 percent takeout that on Monday links Gulfstream with Races 7 and 8 from Parx.

There will also be a carryover of $2,655.15 in the $1 Super High 5 for Gulfstream’s Race 9 finale.

Gulfstream Race 4: A starter optional claimer for 3-year-olds and up going 1 1/16 miles on the all-weather Tapeta course kicks off the Rainbow 6, where 6-year-old gelding Longbranch Lou – with six wins in 11 lifetime tries at the course and distance, chases a 10th career victory and third in a row. A winner at the distance two starts back, Give Me Liberty returns after being beaten a neck by Longbranch Lou going a mile and 70 yards June 21. Peacethrustrength most recently ran second by a length in an open 1 1/16-mile turf allowance April 23 at Gulfstream, his first start in nearly five months.

Gulfstream Race 5: Nine Florida-bred juveniles are set to line up in a maiden special weight sprinting five furlongs on the main track. Well-regarded by owner Arindel, Strike looks to break through after being the beaten favorite in each of his first three starts that included a pair of seconds, each for different trainers. The Roadster colt races second time for Nick Tomlinson, who has clicked at 35 percent (14-for-40) at the Royal Palm Meet. Each of Strike’s rivals are first-time starters including Thanks Charlie, also by Roadster, and $165,000 auction purchase Sum of Success, by Win Win Win.

Gulfstream Race 6: The Sweep kicks off with an interesting $70,000 allowance optional claimer for 3-year-olds and up at a mile on the turf. Chayton, who tested stakes company earlier this year in the Tesio at Laurel and Jersey Derby at Monmouth, will be saddled for the first time by David Fawkes. Meanwhile, after being claimed by Ken Ramsey for $35,000 last August at Saratoga, Assertiveness, a son of Into Mischief, finished 10th in the Showing Up in November for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. This will be his first start since. Paris Surprise also goes out for a new barn in Victor Barboza Jr. Ironsides draws the rail.

Gulfstream Race 7: An overflow field of 14 including two also-eligibles are entered in the seven-furlong claiming event for fillies and mares 3 and up. Vanish is the 5-2 program favorite making her eighth start and first since joining Royal Palm Meet leading trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., who removes blinkers off a fifth-place finish going 1 1/16 miles on Tapeta April 24. Zany Lady was beaten a half-length when second going 5 ½ furlongs June 28. My Girl Nina exits a 5 ¼-length maiden claiming triumph over older horses June 19 at six furlongs.

Parx Race 7: Eight 3-year-olds and up go in this starter optional claimer at 6 ½ furlongs. Play the Gray is a tepid 3-1 choice having finished second by a nose at a mile last out. In fact, Play the Gray has finished second in his last three starts, two at a mile and one at six furlongs. Possum, a 4-year-old gelding as well as a song title by Phish, gets jockey Paco Lopez. The Son of Kantharos finished third in his last start at six furlongs, that coming May 5. King Deivys goes out for the second time since being claimed by Ernesto Padilla-Preciado (26-percent winners). He finished fourth at a mile in his first race for this barn.

Parx Race 8: Ten claimers go to post in this six-furlong event for fillies and mares and the race could run through Crimson Red (9-5) and Ximena (8-5). Crimson Red drops in class and gets jockey Lopez for trainer Wayne Potts while Ximena enters the contest off a 4 ¼-length victory when breaking her maiden.

Gulfstream Race 8: The mile event on the main track includes Jades Jay, who was claimed for $8,000 at Tampa in April when winning by 7 ½. The 5-year-old gelding, who has three wins and four seconds in eight starts at the distance, drops back to similar company for trainer David Van Winkle. Brother Brad goes for his third consecutive victory in his third barn in as many starts. This time the trainer is Jose D’Angelo.

Gulfstream Race 9: The Rainbow 6 and Sweep conclude with a mile turf event for $20,000 claimers. Jayhawk draws the rail for trainer Bobby Dibona who is looking for the 5-year-old to win his fourth consecutive race. Quizler goes out first time off the claim for trainer Beau Chapman (29 percent off the claim). Trainer Gerald Bennett, 29 percent off layoffs of 180 or more days, saddles Eddie the Great, who makes his first start since Dec. 27.

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Notes: Fresh off a four-win day Saturday, jockey Samy Camacho lit up the toteboard following Sunday’s first race, in which he guided longshot Araucano ($59.20) to a 1 ½-length victory. Camacho moved into a one-win lead in the Royal Palm Meet jockey standings with the upset victory in the five-furlong $10,000 claimer for 3-year-olds and up on Tapeta. Camacho went on to win Race 9 aboard Coqueta Blue ($6.40) to go two up on Diego Herrera, 71-69.

Highly promising seven-pound apprentice Pedro Pena doubled Sunday aboard If Not For Luck ($4.60) in Race 3 and Mobay Princess ($16.60) in Race 5.