Pair of optional claimers play part in mandatory Rainbow 6 payout

A couple of second-level allowance races that each carry a $62,500 claiming option share the spotlight Sunday at Gulfstream Park. The 10th race is a six-furlong dash on the main track that drew seven horses. Race 11 has eight fillies and mares going a mile on turf, with three more entered for the main track only.

Post time for the first of 12 races is noon Eastern.

Sunday is the final day of the spring-summer meet, and there will be a mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6. Going into Friday, the carryover in the Rainbow 6 was $636,677. Both the 10th and 11th races are part of the sequence.

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Yodel E. A. Who is one of many contenders in the 10th race.

Trained by Saffie Joseph Jr., Yodel E. A. Who was making his first start since he won a $35,000 claimer on May 30 when he finished fourth as the favorite in a second-level allowance race with a $62,500 claiming option on Sept. 4. With Victor Lebron aboard, the 4-year-old son of Creative Cause dueled through honest fractions before giving way late.

Considering that in the past five years Joseph has a 20 percent strike rate with horses making their second start following a similar layoff, it is easy to imagine Yodel E. A. Who moving forward with a race behind him.

He will break from post 4 with apprentice rider Alberto Burgos aboard.

Frosted Grace was the runner-up in the Sept. 4 race and also returns in Sunday’s 10th race. Trained by Kathy Ritvo, he can stalk the pace, and with plenty of potential speed in the field he could get the right kind of trip with Luca Panici riding.

The 8-year-old Royal Squeeze rallied to finish third on Sept. 4. A 12-time winner, he is the top money earner in Sunday’s field with $607,687 in the bank. Six of his wins came for trainer Elizabeth Dobles, who claimed Royal Squeeze for $25,000 on Feb. 8, 2019. His most important win for Dobles came in the $103,400 Claiming Crown Rapid Transit Sprint on Dec. 19.

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Race 11 also is a wide-open event with no real standout.

Crown and Sugar, who won the $100,000 Distaff Turf for Florida-breds at Tampa Bay last year, is certainly capable if she shows up with her best stuff.

A 13-time winner, Crown and Sugar finished fourth after setting the pace going 1 1/16 miles on turf in the $75,000 Monroe on Sept. 5 at Gulfstream. The Darien Rodriguez-trained 5-year-old daughter of Crown of Thorns was making her first start since she finished last in the $60,000 In A Breeze on July 5.

Crown and Sugar could be dangerous if she gets away on her own after breaking from the rail with Leonel Reyes aboard.

Great Sister Dane, sixth as the favorite in the Monroe, and Bienville Street, second by a neck to Always Shopping in the Monroe, have to be considered serious players.