Rainbow 6 hit day before expected multi-million mandatory payout
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The Rainbow 6 wager that had been expected to draw several million dollars in handle by being forced out Saturday at Gulfstream Park was instead won by a single ticket when longshots paraded home in late Friday races.
The lone 20-cent winner was worth $1,200,305.85 when Canelo, the longshot in the last of 10 Friday races, easily prevailed at 30-1 under Corey Lanerie. A victory by Canelo was the only possible scenario under which a lucrative forceout of the Rainbow 6 on Saturday was to be averted.
The winners’ odds in the sequence (races 5-10) were 6-5, 7-2, 11-1, 14-1, 5-2, and 30-1. The winning numbers were 3-3-8-7-5-3.
The winning ticket was purchased through a Twin Spires account, according to various reports. It was on a $1,080 ticket structured this way: 2/3 with 2/3/4/6/8 with 2/5/7/8/9 with ALL with 5/6/8 with 1/2/3/4.
The day started with $921,693 in the jackpot, with an additional $348,367 bet Friday. Gulfstream had set its Friday guarantee of a gross Rainbow pool at $1.3 million.
Gulfstream officials held out reasonable hope that another $5 million would have been bet into the Saturday forceout, which remains in effect regardless of the Friday sweep. The sequence is races 6-11, starting at 2:35 p.m. Eastern. The Grade 3 Tropical Turf (race 8) is the feature.
Gulfstream has seen an improbable emptying of the Rainbow 6 before a scheduled forceout on prior occasions, most notably on May 25, 2014, when the brash entrepreneur and sportsman Dan Borislow scored for nearly $6.7 million one day ahead by placing a $7,603.20 ticket at the Palm Beach Kennel Club. Borislow, a noted horse owner and bettor, died of a heart attack less than two months later in West Palm Beach at age 52.