Rainbow pick six returns $296.30 on rain-dampened mandatory payout day

ARCADIA, Calif. – The 20-cent Rainbow pick six paid $296.30 to 18,764 ticketholders at Santa Anita on Saturday, a day with a mandatory payout and a pool in excess of $6.7 million.

The bet began with a carryover of $1,592,209 from Friday. Bettors added $5,198,742. Favorites won three of the six races.

The sequence covered the fifth through 10th races on a 10-race program.

The winners were Omaha Beach ($3.40), Mucho Gusto ($3.20), Minstersdon’tlie ($12.80), My Mandate ($5), Battle of Midway ($6.80), and Isee It in Hiseyes ($7).

Omaha Beach, Mucho Gusto, and My Mandate were favored.

This was the first mandatory payout of the winter-spring meeting, which began on Dec. 26. The Rainbow portion of the pick six, paid only if there is one winning ticket, was not hit in the interim.

Track officials had hoped the pick six would draw greater interest on Saturday, but a rainy day and 11 scratches in the pick-six races affected the handle.

“It’s a little disappointing, but with all the things that went against us – the weather and the scratches – it is what it is,” said Tim Ritvo, the chief operating officer of The Stronach Group, the track’s parent company. “You can’t control the weather.”

The bet resumes on Sunday with no carryover. First post time on Sunday is 11 a.m., Pacific, to accommodate a nine-race program in advance of the kickoff for the Super Bowl at 3:30 p.m.