Gulfstream Today 3.4.21: Friday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Guaranteed at $1.1 Million

By David Joseph —-

GULFSTREAM TODAY

3.4.21

Edwin Gonzalez To Move Tack to Gulfstream Park

Multiple Graded-Stakes Winner Sally’s Curlin to Try Turf

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Edwin Gonzalez, the leading rider at Penn National the last two years with more than 400 victories and a 2020 winning percentage of 33 percent, is moving his tack to Gulfstream Park.

Gonzalez, who rode five winners Wednesday evening at Penn National and six winners there Feb. 17, will ride in Pennsylvania through March 19 before heading to Florida. He is expected to ride in Tampa on Florida Cup Day March 28 before riding at Gulfstream.

Gonzalez, who finished second in wins during the 2017 Tampa Bay Downs meet and won six races there on March 10 of that year, has won more than 1,430 races since coming to the U.S. from his native Puerto Rico in 2013. He was ranked 14th in wins in North America last year and 11th in wins in 2019.

Kevin Meyocks, agent for Luca Panici, will represent Gonzalez.

“We’ve been north here the last two years and it’s been good, but we only race two days a week and I’d like to ride at a better track with some better horses,” said Gonzalez, who is moving along with his wife and three children. “There’s nice weather down here. We can take the kids out to the park. I talked to Kevin, he’s a good agent, and when opportunity comes, you have to take advantage of it.”

Gonzalez, a multiple graded-stakes winner in Puerto Rico, guided Ghost Hunter for his first graded-stakes success in the 2017 Arlington Handicap (G3).

Friday’s Rainbow 6 Jackpot Pool Guaranteed at $1.1 Million

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $1.1 million Friday at Gulfstream Park.

The popular multi-race wager went unsolved Thursday for the eighth straight racing day since a lucky bettor broke the jackpot for $712,824.06 Feb. 22. Multiple tickets with all six winners were each worth $3,106.70 Thursday.

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.

Friday’s Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 6-10, including highlighted by multiple graded-stakes winner Sally’s Curlin’s turf debut in Race 9, a mile optional claiming allowance for older fillies and mares on turf. The Dale Romans-trained 5-year-old daughter of Curlin, who captured the 2019 Hurricane Bertie (G3) at Gulfstream, most recently finished seventh in the Inside Information Jan. 23.

WHO’S HOT: Leading rider Irad Ortiz Jr. added three more wins to his swelling meet-leading total, scoring aboard Miahsolomiah ($7) in Race 1, Cairo Campaign ($5) in Race 3 and Katama Moonlight ($3.40) in Race 7.

Edgard Zayas doubled aboard Candy Flower ($12) in Race 5 and Game Boy Benny ($7) in Race 8.

Trainer Anthony Quartarolo and Jose Ortiz teamed for two wins, scoring with Load Me Up ($7.20) in Race 2 and Going For Gold ($5.40) in Race 10.

Saffie Joseph Jr. saddled a pair of winners, Candy Flower ($12) in Race 5 and Katama Moonlight ($3.40) in Race 7.

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