Bentornato Florida-Bound Ahead of Breeders’ Cup Return. (Jenny Doyle/Past The Wire)
Apprentice Luis Fuenmayor Registers Sunday Hat Trick
Sunshine Meet Resumes with Nine-Race Program Friday
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 yielded multiple payoffs of $8,569.28 Sunday at Gulfstream Park. There were 117 winning tickets.
The popular multi-race wager had gone unsolved for eight consecutive racing days following the last mandatory payouts of $206.30 Aug. 24. A total of $1,089,083 was put into the Rainbow 6 Sunday on top of a $131,407.49 carryover from Saturday’s program.
Golden Valley ($4.60) captured the Race 10 finale to complete the winning 4-8-5-9-3-1 combination. Other winners in the sequence were Lights of Broadway ($12.60) in Race 5, Sweet Agenda ($7.80) in Race 6, Party Shaker ($8.80) in Race 7, X Y Point ($17) in Race 8 and Swashbuckle ($19.60) in Race 9.
In the Rainbow 6, the jackpot pool is paid out only 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 with the most winners in the popular wager’s six-race sequence.
The Rainbow 6 begins anew when the Sunshine Meet resumes Friday. The sequence spans Races 4-9 and includes an optional claiming allowance for Florida-bred 3-year-olds and up sprinting five furlongs on the all-weather Tapeta course in Race 8. Among the entrants are Fast Fixer and Neophyte, who have combined for 13 career wins, and 2024 Hollywood Beach runner-up Mila’s Wish.
Bentornato Florida-Bound Ahead of Breeders’ Cup Return
Leon King Stable Corp.’s Bentornato, who set a stakes record winning his comeback race Saturday in Kentucky, is expected back in South Florida to continue preparations for a return to the Breeders’ Cup.
Trainer Jose D’Angelo said Sunday that the 4-year-old Florida-bred ridgling will likely stay in Kentucky for a short time before heading back to Gulfstream Park, where he won his first four career races including the 2023 Proud Man, FSS Dr. Fager and FSS Affirmed.
“He’s going to stay here a few weeks more but then probably back to Florida and then Florida to the Breeders’ Cup,” D’Angelo said from Keeneland, where he is attending the September Yearling sales. “We’ll see what the schedule looks like and figure out the best plan for him.”
Unraced since running second by a half-length to eventual champion Straight No Chaser in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) last November, Bentornato was an eye-catching 5 ¼-length winner of the Louisville Thoroughbred Society at Churchill Downs in 1:08.43 for six furlongs, breaking the previous mark of 1:08.71.
“He ran a huge race,” D’Angelo said. “We prepped him well, we took our time, and he responded very well.”
Bentornato had been working at Gulfstream and Palm Meadows, its satellite training facility in Palm Beach County, in June and July before being sent to Saratoga in early August. Also last year he won the Gallant Bob (G3) and was third in the Saudi Derby (G3).
“We’re going to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint,” D’Angelo said. “He belongs with those kinds of horses.”
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Seven-pound apprentice Luis Fuenmayor registered a Sunday hat trick aboard McMullen ($7.80) in Race 2, Party Shaker ($8.80) in Race 7 and Swashbuckle ($19.60) in Race 8 …
Jockey Miguel Vasquez doubled with Downing Street ($41) in Race 1 and Sweet Agenda ($7.80) in Race 6 …
Both Party Shaker and X Y Point ($17) in Race 8 are trained by Aubrey Maragh.
