Allowance dash could be key in $1 million Rainbow 6 carryover

With racing canceled at Gulfstream Park on Sunday and Monday due to Hurricane Dorian, racing fans in the Miami area will be happy to be back at the track Thursday when they will have a solid nine-race card to work with.

Not only is the feature an intriguing race, a first-level allowance race for Florida-bred fillies and mares headed by blowout winners R Prerogative and J P’s Delight, there is a $1,042,563 carryover in the Rainbow 6. It is a tough sequence that includes a couple of wide-open maiden races.

The fifth race is a $50,000 maiden claimer for 2-year-old fillies going five furlongs on turf. Golden Nole and Vickythebest have the breeding to improve in their first try on grass.

Race 6 is a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight race on the main track for fillies and mares, and it will be interesting to see how first-time starter Gambla runs. The Kentucky-bred daughter of Bellamy Road is a half-sister to Flexibility, who won his 2-year-old debut as well as the Grade 3 Jerome. Gambla may have tipped her hand when she worked a bullet four furlongs on Aug. 29. She is trained by Bob Hess Jr., who has won with three of his seven starters at the meet.

Something has to give when R Prerogative and J P’s Delight square off in the eighth race, which drew seven horses.

They each received 89 Beyer Speed Figures for easy wins last time out.

Trained by Kathleen O’Connell, J P’s Delight was making her debut when she won a $35,000 maiden claimer by 9 1/4 lengths. With Jairo Rendon aboard, the daughter of J P’s Gusto dueled for a half-mile on the lead and drew off to win the six-furlong dash for fun.

She will break from the outside post Thursday with Rendon riding.

R Prerogative, trained by Georgina Baxter, was coming off an 83-day layoff when she won a first-level allowance race with a $75,000 claiming option by 5 3/4 lengths on July 26.

The daughter of Drill dueled through quick interior fractions and won the 5 1/2-furlong dash by an authoritative 5 3/4 lengths.

She was ridden by Reylu Gutierrez who will be aboard Thursday when she breaks from post 5.

Midtown Rose could pick up the pieces if R Prerogative and J P’s Delight get carried away up front. The Saffie Joseph Jr. trainee came from a stalking position to finish third in a first-level allowance race with a $12,500 claiming option for Florida-breds on Aug. 11.

It was her first start since she finished fourth in the $115,000 Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies for Florida-breds on March 31 at Tampa Bay. A four-time winner, Midtown Rose will break from post 4 with leading rider Edgard Zayas up.