Just a Photo. (Lauren King)
Mandatory Rainbow 6 Payout
Just a Photo Springs 14-1 Upset in Empire Builder Handicap
David Joseph/Gulfstream Park
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool Sunday at Gulfstream Park yielded multiple $7,316.38 payoffs.
The popular multi-race wager had gone unsolved for the eight racing days following an Oct. 12 mandatory payout, producing a carryover of $111,271 heading into Sunday’s mandatory payoff.
A total of $950,462 was wagered on the Rainbow 6 Sunday, creating a total jackpot pool of $1,061, 733.
The winning combination was 3-5-1-3-10-5.
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.
The Rainbow 6 will start anew when live racing at Gulfstream resumes with a nine-race card Friday. The sequence will span Races 4-9, featuring Mr Narcissistic’s return from a three-month freshening in the Race 8 feature, a five-furlong starter allowance on turf for 3-year-olds and up. The Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained 7-year-old gelding, who hasn’t finished out of the money in his last 15 races over a two-year period. Edgard Zayas has the return mount.
The Rainbow 6 sequence kicks off with a six-furlong maiden special weight for fillies and mares, featuring three well-connected first-time starters: Storm West, a 3-year-old daughter of West Coast trained by Saffie Joseph Jr.; Plum Perfect, a 4-year-old daughter of Triple Crown champion American Pharoah trained by Kent Sweezey; and Traviesa, a 3-year-old daughter of Speightstown trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher.
Just a Photo Springs 14-1 Upset in Empire Builder Handicap
Smith Ranch Stables’ Just a Photo came with a steady run down the center of the stretch and turned back a bid from Private Thoughts approaching the wire to spring a 14-1 upset in the $70,000 Empire Builder overnight handicap at Gulfstream Park.
Trained by Luis Ramirez and ridden by Marcos Meneses, his second victory on the afternoon, Just a Photo ($31.20) completed one mile over a firm turf course in 1:32.40 four weeks after running fourth behind Private Thoughts in Gulfstream’s Jet Propulsion, an overnight handicap going 1 1/16 miles.
It was the speedy Prevent, breaking from Post 2 in a field of nine, that took the early initiative and went the opening quarter-mile in 23.50 seconds and a half in 45.72 under pressure on his outside from Act a Fool. Anamnestic saved ground in third inside Sherlock’s Jewel with Private Thoughts – riding a three-race win streak – settled in fourth.
Act a Fool overtook Prevent leaving the far turn after a sharp six furlongs in 1:08.73 but had a wall of pursuers behind him once straightened for home. Private Thoughts was able to split horses and get in a challenging spot at the eighth pole but Just a Photo, swung to the far outside at the top of the stretch, powered home to win by a neck.
Private Thoughts held second with late-running Divin Propos, sent off the 7-5 favorite, nailing Relampago Verde by a head for third. They were followed by Act a Fool, Sherlock’s Jewel, Prevent, Tee At One and Anamnestic. Lorenz, Kalik and I Know I Know were scratched.
A gelded 5-year-old son of 2018 Triple Crown champion Justify, it was the fifth career win from 17 starts and first in a stakes for Just a Photo, who ran second in the May 17 Mr. Steele at Gulfstream and third in the Sept. 6 Colonial Cup at Colonial Downs.
