HALLANDALE BEACH - The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is expected to grow to an estimated $200,000 Friday at Gulfstream Park, where the multi-race wager went unsolved Sunday for the sixth day following a June 30 mandatory payout.

    Friday’s sequence will span Races 4-9, featuring a 1 1/16-mile optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds on turf. Robert and Lawanna Low’s Quester, who provided trainer Heather Smullen with her first career winner May 30, returns in the Race 8 feature with Edgard Zayas up.

    Friday’s program will be kicked off by the first two-turn turf race of the year for 2-year-old fillies. A field of 11 has been assembled for the 7 ½-furlong maiden special weight event, including Live Oak Plantation’s debuting Souper Zonda, a daughter of Curlin who is trained by Hall of Famer Mark Casse. Ken Ramsey’s Ramsey Pond, a Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained daughter of Divisidero, is also scheduled to make her debut.

    Notes: Vegso Racing Stable’s Lord Miles, the 2023 Wood Memorial winner, breezed five furlongs in 1:00:03  Sunday morning in preparation for a scheduled start in Saturday’s $75,000 Tackleberry, a mile overnight handicap for 3-year-olds and up. The Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained 4-year-old son of Curlin will be making his third start off a long layoff while facing nine rivals, including Joseph stablemate Positive Review, who is coming off a victory in the Wildcat Red Handicap.


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