Gulfstream Today 12.27.20: Gulfstream’s Rainbow 6 Guaranteed Pool Wednesday $600,000

By David Joseph —-

GULFSTREAM TODAY

12.27.20

Gulfstream’s Rainbow 6 Guaranteed Pool Wednesday $600,000

Super Hi-5 Carryover $23,107.89

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – There will be a $600,000 guaranteed pool in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 and a Super Hi-5 carryover of $23,107.89 when racing resumes Wednesday at Gulfstream Park.

First race post time is 12:35 p.m.

Multiple winning tickets in Sunday’s Rainbow 6 returned $23,888.54.

The jackpot pool 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.

Wednesday’s Rainbow 6 begins with the fifth race, a $35,000 claiming event for 3-year-olds and up on a 1 1/8th mile turf course. The race is scheduled to go off at 2:28 p.m. and will be the first of four turf races in the sequence.

Trainer Mary Eppler has entered Strong Headed and Reliability, while Mike Maker will send out All Good.

The sixth race is a maiden special weight event for fillies and mares at 6 ½ furlongs. George Weaver sends out a first-time starter Into Candy for owner Martin Schwartz. A daughter of into Mischief, Into Candy fetched $210,000 at auction. Whispering Pines enters off a third-place finish in the slop at Churchill Downs for Brian Lynch. Trainer Todd Pletcher will saddle Shadwell Stable’s Aqaareb.

The seventh race, a mil turf event for juvenile fillies with a $35,000 claiming tag, drew field of 10 including Pharoah’s Gold, a daughter of American Pharoah who broke her maiden at Keeneland in October, Mike Maker’s Serenade a Kitten and trainer Brittany Russell’s Coffee Buzz Buzz.

A $20,000 claimer for 3-year-olds and up going 1 1/8 miles on the turf brings together a competitive field of nine in Gulfstream’s eighth race followed by a starter optional claimer at a mile on the main track. The Rainbow 6 ends with a maiden special weight event for 2-year-old fillies at 7 ½ furlongs on the turf. The field of 12 has horses from the stables of Mark Casse, Pletcher, Maker, George Arnold, Wesley Ward, Bill Mott, Saffie Joseph Jr., Graham Motion, Eddie Kenneally and Steve Dwoskin.

WHO’S HOT: Jockey Edgard Zayas rode three winners Sunday. Zayas won the early double with Seize the Hay ($4) in the first and Sidarth ($9.60) in the second, and Dr Harlan ($14.80) in the ninth.

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