ARCADIA, Calif. – Saturday was an exciting and somewhat hectic morning of workouts at Santa Anita. Stables scurried to complete final major exercises for leading runners before graded stakes races next weekend and an expected rainstorm that is likely to curtail main-track training Sunday and possibly Monday.

Gulfstream Park  officials have designated March 26 as the day they’ll disperse the Rainbow 6 jackpot if the popular wager is not hit before then. The Rainbow 6, which had a carryover of $2,273,704 entering Friday’s card, has not been hit since returning $76,799 to one bettor Jan. 13. The largest payout of the current meet was $262,634 on Jan. 7.

The Rainbow 6 jackpot is paid out only if there is one unique ticket with the winning combination.

After conferring with the horse’s owner, trainer Stanley Gold has decided to give Awesome Banner one more chance around two turns and will bring him back next Saturday in the Tampa Bay Derby. Awesome Banner tired badly after setting the pace, finishing far behind the undefeated Mohaymen, in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth.

Trainer Mike Tomlinson said he has been approached by officials from Dubai about the possibility of sending Barbados to the Golden Shaheen, but he has already decided to keep his sprint specialist at home.

Cutacorner worked a bullet five furlongs in 59.80 seconds Friday at Oaklawn. The allowance winner is being pointed for the Grade 2, $900,000 Rebel Stakes here March 19, said trainer Jack Van Berg.

“He worked awful good,” Van Berg said.

Cutacorner breezed after the renovation break under jockey Alex Birzer. Oaklawn clockers had him galloping out six furlongs in 1:13.40.

Van Berg ranks sixth in the current standings at Oaklawn, with the barn having won nine races from 52 starts through Thursday.

The 11-year-old gelding Awakino Cat, who won stakes at Saratoga and Suffolk Downs, was retired Thursday night after he finished sixth in the seventh race at Penn National, a $4,000 claiming race, in the 72nd start of his career.

Before the race, David Neilson, the owner and trainer of Awakino Cat, agreed to give the horse to Samantha Randazzo, an assistant to trainer Linda Rice, who had the horse for the first six years of his racing career. Randazzo said Awakino Cat was her favorite horse.

“He was a little difficult to train, but he was a joy to be around,” Randazzo said.

No horse has come closer to defeating Mohaymen than did Seymourdini, who finished a half-length behind Mohaymen when both debuted at Belmont Park last Sept. 19.

While Mohaymen has gone on to win four graded stakes and become the early Kentucky Derby favorite, Seymourdini went on to win a maiden race in November but has yet to run since.

Seymourdini, a son of Bernardini, returned to the work tab Feb. 27, and trainer Linda Rice said the colt is at least six weeks away from returning to the races.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Jockey Channing Hill leads all riders in stakes wins at this Oaklawn Park meet, and his main mounts are cycling back into major races here over the next two weeks. Marquee Miss is a candidate for the Grade 3, $200,000 Honeybee next Saturday, and La Macchina is on deck for the Grade 3, $350,000 Razorback Handicap on March 19.

Hill, 28, is in the midst of a strong meet at his winter base of Oaklawn. He has won 15 races from 82 mounts to rank sixth in the standings through Thursday, with his starters earning $734,274. He had three stakes wins through Thursday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Following an impressive 5 3/4-length maiden victory at Belmont Park last fall, it appeared as though Matt King Coal would develop into the major 3-year-old player on the New York circuit this winter.

But illness forced him to miss the Withers and Jerome stakes earlier this year. Trainer Linda Rice didn’t feel that running him off a four-month layoff in Saturday’s Grade 3 Gotham Stakes was the appropriate thing to do, so Matt King Coal makes his return to the races Sunday in a $67,000, first-level allowance race at Aqueduct.

Kobe’s Back, one of five confirmed starters for the Grade 2 San Carlos Stakes on March 12 at Santa Anita, worked a sharp half-mile Friday under Gary Stevens. Kobe’s Back worked by himself at 7:45 a.m. and was timed in 47.20 seconds, the second-fastest half-mile of the day. Visually, Kobe’s Back did not appear to be working fast. It was a solid work for trainer Peter Eurton.

Kobe’s Back won the Grade 2 Palos Verdes last out in his first start of the season. Others expected to run in the seven-furlong San Carlos are Calculator, Outside Nashville, Salutos Amigos, and Wild Dude.