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Sunday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $125,000
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Mandatory Payouts for the Coast-to-Coast Pick 5 and the Sunset Six, a pair of multi-race wagers with sequences linking races at Gulfstream Park and Santa Anita, will be held Sunday on closing day of Santa Anita’s Fall Meet.
Both retail-only wagers have a $1 base and a low 15-percent takeout.
The Coast-to-Coast Pick 5 will be kicked off by Gulfstream’s Race 7, a mile maiden special weight for 3-year-olds and up on turf with a well-balanced field of 10.
The sequence will move to Santa Anita for Race 2, a mile optional claiming race for California-bred or -sired 3-year-olds and up with a field of eight, and Race 3, a six-furlong optional claimer for 3-year-olds and up in which Bob Baffert-trained Midland Money, who last raced in the H. Allen Jerkens Memorial (G1) at Saratoga, is the 3-2 morning-line favorite in a field of eight.
C2C P5 action switches back to Gulfstream for the Race 9 feature, a five-furlong optional claiming race for fillies and mares on turf in which 5-2 morning-line favorite Royally Blue will seek her fourth victory in her last six starts in a highly competitive field of nine.
The final leg of the C2C P5 will be contested in Santa Anita’s Race 4, a mile maiden special weight for 2-year-old fillies on turf. Tim Yakteen-trained Tiz Grace, who was second and third in her last two races, both at a mile on turf, is the 9-5 morning-line favorite in a field of seven.
The Sunset Six sequence will include the last three races at Gulfstream Park (Races 8-10) and the last three races at Santa Anita (Races 8-10). Gerald Bennett-trained Secret Empire, who will seek his third win in his last four starts, is the 9-5 morning-line favorite for Gulfstream’s Race 8, a 5 ½-furlong optional claimer for 3-year-olds and up that drew a solid field of seven.
Gulfstream’s Race 9, which is also included in the C2C P5 sequence, will be followed by a five-furlong $25,000 maiden claimer on turf in Race 10 that drew a field of 10 fillies and mares.
The $100,000 Autumn Miss (G3), a mile stakes for three-year-old fillies on turf, will kick off Santa Anita’s Sunset Six trio of races in Race 8. Phil D’Amato-trained Slick, an optional claimer winner last time after being beaten by just two lengths in a sixth-place finish in the Del Mar Oaks (G1), is the 2-1 morning-line favorite in a field of nine. Mark Glatt-trained Take a Breath, who was a badly beaten favorite in the race won by Slick after finishing fourth, beaten 1 ¾ lengths in the Del Mar Oaks, will seek to rebound Sunday.
Race 9, a six-furlong starter allowance for 3-year-olds and up, attracted a competitive field of 10, including 3-1 morning-line favorite Wound Up, who had won five straight race prior to finishing off the board in the Green Flash Handicap (G3) at Del Mar and the Santa Anita Sprint Championship (G2) at Santa Anita.
The Sunset Six sequence and Santa Anita’s Fall Meet will be closed out by a 6 ½-furlong optional claimer for fillies and mares on turf in Race 10 that drew an extremely well-balanced field of 10.
Sunday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $125,000
The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is expected to grow to an estimated $125,000 Sunday at Gulfstream Park, where the popular multi-race wager went unsolved Saturday for the fifth racing day following a mandatory payout.
Sunday’s Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 5-10, kicked off by a five-furlong optional claiming event for 3-year-olds and up on turf. Michael Lerman-trained Xy Speed, a veteran five-furlong turf specialist who has won 14 of 29 races at the distance and on the surface, is the 8-5 morning-line favorite in a field of seven.
The Rainbow 6 carryover 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 usually 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 Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the wager’s six-race sequence.
