Nearly $400,000 up for grabs in Rainbow 6 jackpot
It’s been six weeks since a solo winner last drained the Rainbow 6 pool at Gulfstream Park, and the result is yet another jackpot that has grown to life-changing proportions.
The jackpot went unswept for the 22nd straight program Sunday at Gulfstream, where the carryover stands at $393,366 as another four-day race week commences Thursday. The last Rainbow 6 sweep, worth $164,483, occurred July 16.
The 20-cent Rainbow 6 is offered on the last six races each day; for Thursday, that’s races 5 through 10. First post is 1:15 p.m. Eastern, with race 5 scheduled for 3:27 and the last race for 6:15.
The Rainbow 6 is paid out only when there is a single ticket sold with all six winners. When there is no solo winner, 70 percent of that day’s pool is returned on tickets with the most winners, with the remaining 30 percent added to the jackpot.
Here follows a brief rundown of the Rainbow 6 races Thursday:
Race 5: Royal Fighter, with Harry Hernandez riding, has been second in three of his last four starts for this same kind of “beaten” condition. He could come a lukewarm favorite in a seven-horse field noticeably lacking in early speed.
Race 6: Odachi did a lot of dirty work before finishing a game second in this same kind of turf race three weeks ago, and surely will take strong backing. Her main threats figure to be her Ralph Nicks stablemate L. A. Style, along with Who’s That Chick and Aly Cruise.
Race 7: Ameliaswildkitty will undoubtedly be a single on many tickets when she plunges down from the maiden-special ranks for the ever-popular Wesley Ward into a $16,000 maiden claimer. Some backup tickets will include the outside-drawn Aroma Blue and first-time starters Secret War and Pennetta.
Race 8: This is easily the most contentious race in the sequence, with at least a half-dozen of the 11 starters worthy of serious consideration, most notably Perfectress, Blavastki, Cleverness, Tzi Our Destiny, and Allaboutthechase. If there ever was a mandatory spread race, this might be it.
Race 9: At least on recent Beyer Speed Figures, newly claimed Old Times Sake looks like a potential single in a field of six in the nominal $44,000 allowance feature. “He’s a consistent 4-year-old who seems to love Gulfstream and the distance as well,” said new trainer Peter Walder.
Race 10: You’re not getting off the hook that easy: A full and pretty much inscrutable field of filly-mare turf milers makes for a difficult finale, with the most logical contenders being Miss Visconti, Ellicottville, Siccar, Buff Jett, and Zamarata.