Mandatory Payout Sunday
Nadeau, Perry Handicap Rainbow 6
• Gabaldon Entered to Launch Comeback in Ninth Race Feature
• $75,000 Azalea Among Three Winners for Jockey Miguel Vasquez
David Joseph/Gulfstream Park
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A mandatory payout of the popular 20-cent Rainbow 6 wager will be held Sunday at Gulfstream Park, where the jackpot pool is estimated to surpass $1 million.
Post time for the first of 10 races is 12:50 p.m.
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.
However, on mandatory payout days the entire jackpot pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the wager’s six-race sequence. The Rainbow 6 last returned $4,220.26 on a mandatory payout June 29.
Longshots Centerfold Guy and Stone Cold Flex were live to take down the Rainbow 6 for a $159,220.84 payout heading into Saturday’s Race 11 finale, won by Titan ($28) and creating a carryover of $98,693 for Sunday.
Sunday’s sequence begins in Race 5, a claiming event for 3-year-olds and up going one mile and 70 yards on the all-weather Tapeta course. Rashid, a sophomore son of Kitten’s Joy, chases a third straight win and first on the synthetic after back-to-back front-running turf victories at Gulfstream. Try to Make Cents and Refined Honor also come in off last-out wins.
Race 6 is a maiden special weight for 2-year-olds sprinting six furlongs on the main track led by Thaar, a $350,000 son of Charlatan that is among six first-time starters in a field of eight that includes Jose D’Angelo-trained stablemate Malbec. In his June 13 unveiling going five furlongs at Gulfstream, Malbec pressed the pace on the inside before tiring to be fourth.
Nine fillies and mares 3 and up are set to go 5 ½ furlongs on the Tapeta in Race 7 including Blonde Jak, who has been third or better in each of her last six starts most recently finishing second as the favorite May 25 under similar conditions, though she drops to a $25,000 claiming tag. Smile Po also takes a drop following a third against elders June 14, beaten two lengths.
Carroll’s Honor is the program favorite in Race 8, a claiming events for fillies and mares 3 and up set for 6 ½ furlongs on the main track, following her front-running 7 ½-length romp June 26 at Gulfstream sprinting three-quarters. It was the third win from eight starts for the chestnut daughter of Curlin’s Honor, the prior two coming at Tampa Bay Downs. Wink of an Eye, with a record of 2-2-1 from 10 prior starts, will be racing first off the claim for trainer Carlos David.
Sunday’s feature comes in Race 9, an open stakes-quality allowance for 3-year-olds and up sprinting 5 ½ furlongs on the Tapeta. Gabaldon, racing for the first time as a gelding and with Lasix, makes his synthetic debut after capturing Gulfstream’s Royal Palm Juvenile and running second in the Windsor Castle at Royal Ascot last spring. In his only other start, the Florida-bred son of Gone Astray was third after setting the pace in the March 22 Texas Glitter, also on the grass at Gulfstream.
Among the contenders are Mr Narcissistic, an eight-time overall winner that has never been worse than third in 13 tries on the Gulfstream Tapeta including seven wins; Cruzin Man, third or better in 13 of 21 career starts; and Torch Is Passed, who owns four wins and one second in seven Tapeta races at Gulfstream, the last two of them wins.
The Race 10 finale is a claiming event for maidens 3 and up set for 5 ½ furlongs on the Tapeta. No Bills Campaign, racing as a new gelding, is the 2-1 program favorite after being off the board in two prior starts for trainer Kent Sweezey. D’Angelo sends out Sigan Viendo, who cuts back on two races at a mile or longer including a runner-up finish going two turns April 3. Migratory has two thirds in three races on the Gulfstream Tapeta.
There will also be a carryover of $5,897.15 in the $1 Super Hi-5 (Race 10).
Following Sunday’s card, the Royal Palm Meet resumes with a nine-race program Friday, July 18.
Nadeau, Perry Handicap Rainbow 6
Notes … … …. ……
Jockey Miguel Vasquez registered a Saturday hat trick with Mo Hijinx ($11.40) in Race 2, Keep On Moving ($15.80) in Race 8 and Andrea ($6.40) in the $75,000 Azalea …
Rajiv Maragh doubled aboard Oshala ($33.80) in Race 3 and Titan ($28) in Race 11 …
Edwin Gonzalez picked up career win No. 1,998 with Light Fury ($7.60) in Race 9. Gonzalez is named in five of 10 races Sunday.
