Gulfstream Today: Thursday’s Rainbow 6 Carryover Jackpot Swells to $1,322,193

By David Joseph —-

GULFSTREAM TODAY

1.1.20

Thursday’s Rainbow 6 Carryover Jackpot Swells to $1,322,193
Omaha Beach Arrives at Gulfstream for Pegasus
Fast Pass Rallies from Last in New Year’s Day Feature

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 went unsolved for the 23rd consecutive racing day of the 2019-2020 Championship Meet Wednesday, producing a carryover jackpot of $1,322,193.03 for Thursday’s program.

Multiple tickets with all six winners on the New Year’s Day card were each worth $67,649.02.

The Rainbow 6 jackpot is only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day’s pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.

Omaha Beach Arrives at Gulfstream for Pegasus

Omaha Beach, one of the favorites for the $3 million Pegasus World Cup (G1) Jan. 25 at Gulfstream Park, arrived safely from California Tuesday evening.

Owned by Fox Hill Farms, Inc., Omaha Beach, a son of War Front, was the morning-line favorite in the Kentucky Derby (G1) off victories in the Rebel (G2) and Arkansas Derby (G1) at Oaklawn in the winter. The colt was scratched the Wednesday before the race, however, after being diagnosed with an entrapped epiglottis.

Omaha Beach returned five months later to win the Santa Anita Sprint Championship (G1) before a game second-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1). In his last start prior to arriving at Gulfstream, he handily beat four others in the Malibu (G1) Dec. 28 at Santa Anita

Fast Pass Rallies from Last in New Year’s Day Feature

Paradise Farms Corp. and Walder Racing’s Fast Pass rallied from last to score a dominating victory in Race 8 feature on Wednesday’s New Year’s Day card at Gulfstream Park.

“I think we’ve got to step it up next time. We’re looking at the Gulfstream Park Sprint Championship,” trainer Peter Walder said.

The $100,000 six-furlong Grade 3 stakes is scheduled for Feb. 22.

Fast Pass ($7) had previously finished second by a nose to Brother Chub in the $110,000 Claiming Crown Express at Gulfstream Dec. 7, two months after running in the $838,000 Korea Cup Sprint, in which he finished far back.

The 7-year-old gelded son of Successful Appeal broke sharply but dropped back to last, trailing his five rivals into the far turn as Travy Boy and Whyruawesome vied for the lead past fractions of 22.76 and 45.44 seconds for the first half mile. Fast Pass made a wide sweeping move on the turn into the homestretch under apprentice Cristian Torres and stormed through the stretch to win by 2 ¾ lengths going away.

“I wasn’t worried when I saw those two horses hook up in the first quarter, even though it was slow. A lot of people would have panicked when he was way back there, but I knew my horse,” Walder said. “As awesome as he ran today, if I had one more work in him last time he would have won the Claiming Crown. That hurt.”

Fast Pass, who won the Open Lead Stakes during the Summer Meet, ran six-furlongs in 1:10.28 in the optional claiming allowance.

Who’s Hot: In addition to winning aboard Fast Pass in Race 8, apprentice Cristian Torres won Race 4 with Cabre ($5).

Paco Lopez rode back-to-back long shot winners Wednesday, scoring aboard Golden Note ($25.80) in Race 6 and Go Poke the Bear ($22.40) in Race 7.

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