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Yahoo
29-06-2025
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Gulfstream: Mandatory Rainbow 6 Payout Set For Sunday
Gulfstream: Mandatory Rainbow 6 Payout Set For Sunday originally appeared on Paulick Report. A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be held Sunday at Gulfstream Park. The popular multi-race wager went unsolved Saturday for the seventh racing day following a mandatory payout that yielded multiple $47,670 payoffs, leaving a carryover pool of $112,838 heading into Sunday's Rainbow 6 wagering. Advertisement Nicoletti, Nadeau Handicap Rainbow 6 Sunday's Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 5-10, kicked off by a non-winners-of-2-lifetime $8,000 claimer for fillies and mares in Race 5. Kathleeen O'Connell-trained Sky Baby drops in class after holding her own against better. Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained Fully Entitled also drops in class and cuts back from a mile to six furlongs after returning from a long layoff to finish a tiring second. A seemingly wide-open optional claiming allowance for Florida-breds going 7½ furlongs on turf figures to challenge Rainbow 6 bettors in Race 6. Mark Casse-trained Bluff, the 5-2 morning-line favorite, drops out of a stakes after winning his 2025 debut at Tampa Bay Downs. In Race 7, a 5½-furlong $12,500 maiden claimer for fillies and mares on Tapeta, Jose D'Angelo-trained Bubbles Up would be expected to benefit from her recent return from a layoff in which she faded late against much better. R Wins Aren't Luck drops back to the level where she finished second back-to-back for red-hot trainer Carlos David. Advertisement Joseph-trained Bellavinino looms as a solid favorite in Race 8, a mile starter allowance for 3-year-old fillies on turf. The daughter of Get Stormy drops from back-to-back stakes appearances following a victory at Sunday's level of competition. David Fawkes-trained We See You looks to rebound from subpar showing in the Martha Washington that followed back-to-back victories. Lookin for Roses figures to receive considerable support from Rainbow 6 bettors while making his first start off the claim-back by Joseph in Race 9, a 1 1/16-mile $8000 claiming races for 3- and 4-year-olds on Tapeta. D'Angelo-trained Emmett drops in for a tag off even efforts against better. Irideo, who entertained Grade 1 and 2 rivals in Southern California last year, makes his 2025 debut for trainer Amador Sanchez in Race 10, a mile $35,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up on turf that drew a deep field of 10. Jose Gallegos-trained Battle Call is well-placed on the rail to save ground after a pair of solid in-the-money efforts that followed troubled starts. D'Angelo-trained came up just short in his turf debut and is expected to make a serious bid to go all the way Sunday. Joseph-trained Positive Review is a steady-going horse who could wake up with Sunday's drop in class. The Rainbow 6 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 usually goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool. On mandatory-payout days, the entire Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is paid out to the bettor or bettors with the most winners in the wager's six-race sequence. This story was originally reported by Paulick Report on Jun 28, 2025, where it first appeared.
Associated Press
27-05-2025
- Sport
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Be Your Best and Skippylongstocking give Ortiz and Joseph a stakes double at Santa Anita
ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Be Your Best led all the way to earn her first Grade 1 victory in the $300,000 Gamely Stakes by 2 3/4 lengths Monday at Santa Anita. Ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr., Be Your Best ran 1 1/8 miles on turf in 1:46.26, the fastest time in the race for fillies and mares since 2017, when Lady Eli won in 1:45.29. The 5-year-old Ireland-bred mare and Ortiz traveled from the East Coast to compete. It was Florida-based trainer Saffie Joseph Jr.'s first career win at Santa Anita. About 30 minutes later, Ortiz rode odds-on favorite Skippylongstocking to a three-quarters of a length victory in the $200,000 Hollywood Gold Cup for Joseph. 'It was amazing to get that Grade 1, then you don't want to go home with Skippy getting beat,' Joseph told track officials by phone. 'So for him to go out there and win a historic race like the Hollywood Gold Cup was truly special.' In the $300,000 Shoemaker Mile, Britain-bred King of Gosford and jockey Flavien Prat won. King of Gosford ran the distance on turf in 1:33.52 and paid $10.80, $4.80 and $3.60. Mi Hermano Ramon was second and Cabo Spirit was third. In the Gold Cup, Skippylongstocking ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:01.64 and paid $3.60, $2.60 and $2.10. He increased his career earnings to over $3.6 million with 11 wins in 32 starts. Midnight Mammoth returned $7.20 and $3.60 and Extensive paid $2.40 to show. It was Skippylongstocking's eighth graded stakes victory at six different tracks. 'He's just a hard-knocking horse who takes his track with him everywhere he goes,' Joseph said. 'He's a sound horse and he's very strong mentally. We'll be forever grateful for him.' In the Gamely, Be Your Best paid $6.20, $3.80 and $3.00. Lady Claypoole returned $8.20 and $4.60 and Liguria returned $5 to show. 'She is a very good filly and she showed it,' Joseph said. 'This is really big for us.' Be Your Best has six wins in 20 career starts and earnings of over $1 million. ___ AP horse racing:
Yahoo
18-05-2025
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White Abarrio Stretches Legs At Saratoga With Eye Toward Met Mile
C2 Racing Stable, Gary Barber and La Milagrosa Stable's multiple Grade 1 winner White Abarrio reacquainted himself with the Saratoga Race Course main track Friday, posting a half-mile breeze in 49.27 seconds in company with New York-bred Bustin Bullet for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. 'He went a half from the three-eighths and he galloped out five-eighths, which was a little more than he should have, but we just wanted him to stretch his legs over the surface,' Joseph said. 'So far, so good.' Advertisement The 2023 Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) winner arrived in Saratoga last Saturday from Gulfstream Park, where he drilled a five-furlong bullet in 59.20 on May 7. The 6-year-old son of Race Day is undefeated this year, boasting scores in Gulfstream's Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup in January and the Grade 3 Ghostzapper last out on March 29 with a 5 1/4-length tour de force. White Abarrio, who captured the 2023 Grade 1 Whitney at the Spa, is searching for an elusive win in the $1-million Hill 'n' Dale Metropolitan Handicap (G1) on June 7 during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga, a 'Win and You're In' for the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile in November at Del Mar. White Abarrio finished third in the 2023 Met Mile and fifth in last year's running, both while in the barn of Rick Dutrow Jr. Joseph said White Abarrio will continue to do his training over the Saratoga main track in the coming weeks. 'He'll have two more breezes, and next week he'll have a pretty serious breeze between Thursday and Saturday,' Joseph, Jr. said. Advertisement Joseph has a handful of other prospects for the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, including recent Grade 3 Vagrancy runner-up R Disaster, who was a neck back of stablemate Haulin Ice in the 6 1/2-furlong sprint for older fillies and mares on May 4 at Belmont at the Big A. Campaigned by Averill Racing, Two Eight Racing and Anthony Mattera, the daughter of Awesome Slew could target the Grade 2, $300,000 Bed o' Roses on June 6. 'She's pointed there, and there is a possibility she could go somewhere else, but right now that's the race we're targeting,' Joseph, Jr. said. C2 Racing, Paul Braverman and Timothy Pinch's Indy Bay, who also worked a half-mile in :50.05 Friday over the Spa main track, is pointing to the $150,000 Jersey Girl, a six-furlong sprint for sophomore fillies, on June 8. The consistent daughter of Take Charge Indy has never been off the board in four starts, including back-to-back wins at Gulfstream in her first two starts for Joseph, Jr. with a tidy third-out graduation in March and a gritty three-quarter-length optional claiming win on April 25.
