Rainbow 6 nears mandatory payout at Pimlico

The final week of the Pimlico meet began Thursday with a $244,804 Rainbow 6 carryover. If the jackpot isn’t hit Thursday or Friday, there will be a mandatory payout Saturday, which concludes the racing season.

The Rainbow 6 jackpot is only paid out when a single ticket selects all six winners. On days when there is more than one winner or nobody picks all six, 60 percent of that day’s pool goes to the winning players, and 40 percent is added to the jackpot. The bet has produced payoffs as high as $6.6 million in Florida.

The Rainbow 6 is a 10-cent-minimum wager and is offered on Pimlico’s final six races of the day. A pick five with an industry-low 12 percent takeout is held on the final five races of each card.

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The Rainbow 6 races for Friday are an $8,000 maiden claimer, a $7,500 claiming turf sprint for fillies and mares, a $5,000 conditioned claiming sprint, a maiden turf sprint for fillies and mares, a first-level turf allowance, and a $16,000 maiden claimer.

The Rainbow 6 races on Friday have the following number of betting interests: 8, 9, 7, 12, 12, and 10.

One of the shorter-priced horses on the card figures to be Roxbury Rocket in race 5. A 6-year-old mare, she rallied from just off the pace at 5-2 to win a similar race May 3 while dropping from $15,000 claiming to $7,500. She was claimed that day by Dale Capuano.

Sydney Speaks tired to finish 11th behind Roxbury Rocket last time out. But she broke through the gate and unseated her rider before the start as the 5-2 second choice and ran off for about an eighth of a mile before being caught. She might have the best early speed in the field.