Super Chow scoring the GP Sprint. (Lauren King)
Multiple Graded Stakes Winner Leaving Saturday for Dubai
Thursday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $100,000
Gulfstream Today
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Lea Farms’ 5-year-old multiple graded-stakes winner Super Chow put in his final breeze Wednesday at Gulfstream Park ahead of a scheduled start in the $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1) April 5 at Meydan Racecourse.
Last out winner of the listed Gulfstream Park Sprint Feb. 22, his eighth career stakes victory, Super Chow was timed in 1:01.28 for five furlongs over a fast main track.
“He worked very well,” trainer Jorge Delgado said. “We worked him in company. We put him on the outside and tried to relax him a little bit and have him close and he did pretty good. The gallop out was extremely strong, and he was doing it basically on his own. He came back to the barn like he didn’t breeze.
“I wanted to give him a good final preparation, a strong five-eighths in company and he did it really good. He’s ready for Dubai,” he added. “He’ll be traveling on Saturday, so I wanted to breeze him today and give him a couple of easy days before he has to go on the plane, because it’s a long trip.”
Though it will be the first time abroad for Super Chow, the Lord Nelson horse is no stranger to being on the road. Over 24 starts that have produced 10 wins and $892,145 in purse earnings, he has raced at 10 different tracks in eight states.
Super Chow has raced the most times over his home track of Gulfstream (eight), where he also won the Limehouse and Hutcheson and was second in the Swale (G3) in 2023. His graded wins have come in the Toboggan (G3) and Tom Fool (G3) at Aqueduct and Maryland Sprint (G3) at Pimlico over a span of four starts last spring.
Bred by Spendthrift Farm, Super Chow can become the second Gulfstream-based horse in three years to win the Golden Shaheen following Sibelius in 2003. Delgado is scheduled to leave for Dubai March 30.
“This horse has basically been traveling everywhere,” Delgado said. “The last time he ran he came out of the race pretty good after facing a bunch of good horses. He’s a horse that doesn’t mind who he runs against or what the surface is, he’s a warrior. I’m very happy.”
Thursday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Estimated at $100,000
The 20-cent Rainbow 6 will have an estimated jackpot pool of $100,000 when live racing resumes Thursday.
Post time for the first of nine races is 12:50 p.m.
Multiple stakes winner De Regresso drops in class after seven consecutive stakes starts in Race 7, an optional claiming allowance for older fillies and mares going one mile and 70 yards on the all-weather Tapeta course. The 4-year-old filly won her most recent synthetic start, last June’s Martha Washington at Gulfstream, and exits the Pegasus Filly & Mare Turf (G2) Jan. 25, her first try against elders.
Race 8 is a seven-furlong allowance for Florida-bred 3-year-old fillies that drew a field of 10 led by 2-1 program favorite Volatiled, runner-up in last fall’s Juvenile Filly Sprint at Gulfstream that was placed ninth following a troubled trip in the Feb. 1 Forward Gal (G3). Fede and Kip the Distance are also stakes-placed.
Thursday’s finale has eight older Florida-breds scheduled to go one mile on the grass in an entry-level optional claiming allowance. Hot Blooded drops in his first start off a $35,000 claim for trainer Mike Maker. Jack Kerouac looks to improve after finishing second as the favorite in a similar spot Feb. 21.
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.
The Rainbow 6 has been solved nine times during the 2024-2025 Championship Meet, seven times in the new year and five of those mandatory payouts, the most recent being $28,442 March 16.
There will also be a carryover of $4,654.30 in the $1 Super Hi-5 (Race 9) Thursday.
Who’s Hot ~ ~ ~
Jockey Jorge Ruiz visited the winner’s circle twice Wednesday, aboard Franks Mimi ($4.60) in Race 5 and Seaver ($18.40) in Race 8 …
Paco Lopez also doubled on Fort Sam ($4.60) in Race 7 and Always Adriana ($15.60) in Race 9.
