Gulfstream Park track photographer Ryan Thompson up on the tote board for a bird’s eye view. (Coglianese Photo)
Jockey Luiz Saez Notches Four-Win Afternoon, Two in Stakes
Gulfstream Today
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 will have an estimated pool of $350,000 when racing resumes Sunday at Gulfstream Park.
Post time for the first of nine races is 12:20 p.m.
Sunday’s sequence opens in Race 4, a claiming event for fillies and mares 4 and up going 1 1/16 miles on the all-weather Tapeta course. Trendy, unraced since late July, is set to make her first start for Championship Meet leading trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., who hits at 30 percent with the move and 25 percent off a layoff of more than 180 days.
The feature comes in Race 7, an optional claiming allowance for 4-year-olds and up scheduled for five furlongs on the turf that drew a competitive field of eight led by Clear Stars Stable’s 9-year-old gelding Xy Speed. The 9-5 program favorite owns 14 wins – 12 at the distance – and $494,541 in purse earnings from 41 starts, with a record of 7-3-2 from 15 tries over the course. He is one of three horses entered for the $62,500 tag.
Ironhorse Racing Stable and Harlow Stables’ Mattingly won last summer’s Hollywood Beach sprinting five furlongs on the Tapeta. The Bucchero colt has been worse than third just three times from 10 starts and will be making his first start since a fifth in last summer’s Secretariat (G2). Grade 3-placed Biz Biz Buzz and stakes winner Sosua Summer are also in the field.
War Signal chases a third straight win in Race 8, an open allowance for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles on the Tapeta. The Ontario-bred trained by Hall of Famer Mark Casse already owns a win over course during the Championship Meet Jan. 5 going one mile and 70 yards and is a stakes-placed sprinter at Woodbine. Special Aviator, winner of the one-mile Our Dear Peggy Oct. 26 on the Gufstream turf, look to rebound after suffering her first loss last time out when 10th in the Ginger Brew.
The Race 9 finale is a maiden special weight for fillies and mares 4 and up scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on the grass. African Waters, a $1.2 million yearling of 2021, seeks her first win after running second four times in seven starts. Queen of Naples makes her third start and first following a pair of starts last winter and spring in California. Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher sends out Appellate, a daughter of Constitution with three runner-up finishes in seven tries over two seasons.
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.
Multiple tickets with all six winners (1-13-5-2-7-7) returned $61,479.44 in Saturday’s Rainbow 6. The Late Pick 5 (13-5-2-7-7) was worth $85,168.35.
Who’s Hot ~ ~ ~
Jockey Luis Saez notched back-to-back wins with Emergence ($17.60) in Race 5 and Echo Lane ($6.40) in Race 6, completing a four-win day on Charlie’s to Blame ($8.20) in the $165,000 Kitten’s Joy and Eclatant ($10) in the $165,000 Fasig-Tipton Forward Gal …
Edgard Zayas visited the winner’s circle twice, on Neophyte ($9.60) in Race 1 and Burnham Square ($10.60) in the $265,000 Holy Bull (G3) …
John Velazquez also doubled aboard Vixen ($3.60) in Race 4 and River Thames ($3.40) in Race 7 …
Both Eclatant and Emergence ($) in Race 5 are trained by Brad Cox.
