Allowance races cap Rainbow 6 with guaranteed $300,000 jackpot

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – They’ve saved the best for last when racing resumes Wednesday at Gulfstream Park following the usual two-day hiatus, with a pair of allowance races closing out the nine-race program. The eighth race is for Florida-breds over the Tapeta course, and the ninth race is scheduled for the grass for older fillies and mares.

The co-features close out a Rainbow 6 sequence that will offer a gross guaranteed jackpot of $300,000.

In the eighth race, at a mile and 70 yards, Over the Channel need only repeat his last performance to return quick dividends off the claim for trainer Peter Walder. Over the Channel, 7, rallied to a 2 1/4-length decision in a similar race here Jan. 12 and was claimed for $20,000 by Walder, who lost the son of Overanalyze for $50,000 here one year ago.

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Emisael Jaramillo, Over the Channel’s regular rider for much of the past two years and aboard for his most recent triumph, will get the return call despite the barn change.

Over the Channel will face seven rivals, the most intriguing of whom may be Souper Cohiba, who takes on Florida-breds for the first time in his career. Souper Cohiba, trained by Katerina Vassilieva, has won 5 of 24 starts, with all of his victories having come over synthetic tracks, four at Woodbine.

Ambitieuse will take on allowance company for the first time in her career as one of nine fillies and mares slated to go a mile in the ninth race. Trained by Graham Motion, Ambitieuse finished second in the Grade 3 Sweetest Chant here a year ago and has made just two subsequent starts. She has not raced since finishing an even-running seventh in the Sanibel Island Stakes over the local turf course in April.

Ambitieuse has kept a steady work schedule since returning to south Florida from Maryland late last fall, primarily on the turf at the Palm Meadows training center.

Frosted Oats, in peak form and from the barn of red-hot trainer Bill Mott, figures to garner plenty of support. Frosted Oats has won her last two starts, with those victories coming more than six months apart. Her most recent win came by three lengths against Florida-breds over the turf here Jan. 6.

The stakes-placed Princess Theorem should benefit from her most recent outing, when she rallied from last to finish fourth in a race similar to Wednesday’s on Dec. 31. The outing was the first for Princess Theorem in 9 1/2 months. Jockey Jose Ortiz sees fit to take the return call Wednesday for trainer Brendan Walsh.

Walsh also has entered Fuente Ovejuna, who just missed against the same kind when making her local debut Dec. 4. She earned a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 78.

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