Another hefty pool expected for mandatory-payout Rainbow 6
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Gulfstream Park will run its third of eight consecutive Monday programs on July 27, offering another mandatory payout on the 20-cent Rainbow 6. The multi-race wager featured six-digit pools for the first two Monday cards of the meet and is expected to again attract bettors with a healthy slate of races this week.
After raking in a massive $985,000 Rainbow 6 pool for the inaugural Monday program on July 13, Gulfstream’s second Monday Rainbow 6 pool on July 20 brought in $527,000 and yielded 88 winning tickets for a $5,084 payout.
Monday’s Rainbow 6 wager will require bettors to parse through three maiden races, a conditioned claiming race on synthetic, and a pair of allowances to end the nine-race card. Several standouts could allow for opportunities to single.
Race 4: In this $68,000 maiden special weight on dirt, the 4-year-old colt Wordondastreet is the one to beat for trainer Amzadali Jehaludi.
Though he is winless in nine starts, he finished fourth in a tougher maiden field last time out in May, earning a 60 Beyer Speed Figure that could seal the deal against this group. Several less experienced contenders could take the next step, but they will have to improve to do so.
Race 5: Many bettors will likely spread in this conditioned $10,000 claiming race, as Looks to Kill, Kate the Smate, Duchess Eleanor, and Bella Jak have all displayed solid recent form on synthetic, making it nearly impossible to narrow things down.
Race 6: Elusive Choice, a 4-year-old filly trained by Joe Orseno, offers the most upside in the sixth, a $12,500 maiden-claiming race on synthetic. The second-time starter will add blinkers after an instructive debut in May. She will have to improve to take down the likes of experienced synthetic runners Starship Spectacle and Khozy Me Up.
Race 7: If any race is going to trip up hopeful Rainbow 6 tickets, it will likely be this $35,000 maiden-claiming race on turf. Only seven 3-year-old fillies are entered, but Ignis Cor and Bodacious Queen have roughly similar qualifications on the grass, while Winning Defense and The Coromoto will try the surface for the first time after solid efforts on synthetic.
Race 8: The first of two first-level allowances features 10 older males on the dirt. Latch the Hatch, a 4-year-old gelding trained by Joe Orseno, has finished second at this level with matching 84 Beyer Speed Figures in his last two starts, making the race his to lose. Noble J, a last-out statebred allowance winner trained by David Fawkes, leads a group of credible challengers who could improve.
Race 9: The Rainbow 6 concludes with the other first-level allowance, a five-furlong sprint on turf. Last-out synthetic allowance winners Sabian and Giant Teddy are the top contenders. None of the eight older males are coming out of a race on grass, though the field does include turf stakes winner Sosua Summer, who has finished seventh at long odds in his last two starts on synthetic.
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