Rainbow 6 to be paid out Sunday, pool could hit $5 million

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – There will be a mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 pool on Sunday at Gulfstream Park. The sequence starts with a carryover of $873,676, and the final pool should end up at approximately $5 million.

The Rainbow 6 sequence, begins with the sixth event on the 11-race program and includes three races carded for the turf. The opening leg, scheduled for a mile on the grass, will likely give Rainbow 6 players fits right off the bat, having lured a full field of 12 bottom-level maiden claimers.

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The seventh race also is for lower-level claimers, fillies and mares going six furlongs on the main track. The race brings together a field of only seven starters, topped by likely favorites Markistan and Free to Fly.

It will be back to the grass for Leg 3, and a wide-open lineup of 11 mid-level filly and mare claimers is slated to run five furlongs.

The co-featured ninth event will be decided at 6 1/2 furlongs on the main track under allowance conditions for Florida-bred fillies and mares, with no real clear-cut favorite among the eight entered.

The 10th race is scheduled to be run at five furlongs on the turf under first-level allowance conditions for older horses, with a dozen signed on, five of whom enter the race off a victory in their most recent starts. The Wesley Ward trained Zanno figures to be the favorite, with Lontano, Big Drink of Water, and Long Blade among the other key contenders.

Anyone fortunate enough to still be alive heading into the finale will have to deal with a full field of maiden 3-year-old fillies that includes seven first-time starters, among them well-bred types from the barns of trainers Chad Brown, Brad Cox, and Bill Mott. Mischiefful may well go postward the favorite. She comes off a solid second-place finish in her debut behind Brown’s promising stakes prospect Boston Post Road.