HALLANDALE BEACH - A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool Sunday at Gulfstream Park yielded multiple $7,316 payoffs. A total of $950,462 was wagered on the Rainbow 6 Sunday, creating a total jackpot pool of $1,061, 733.

    The winning combination was 3-5-1-3-10-5.

    The Rainbow 6 will start anew when live racing at Gulfstream resumes with a nine-race card Friday. The sequence will span Races 4-9, featuring Mr Narcissistic’s return from a three-month freshening in the Race 8 feature, a five-furlong starter allowance on turf for 3-year-olds and up. The Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained 7-year-old gelding, who hasn’t finished out of the money in his last 15 races over a two-year period.  Edgard Zayas has the return mount.

    The Rainbow 6 sequence kicks off with a six-furlong maiden special weight for fillies and mares, featuring three well-connected first-time starters: Storm West, a 3-year-old daughter of West Coast trained by Saffie Joseph Jr.; Plum Perfect, a 4-year-old daughter of Triple Crown champion American Pharoah trained by Kent Sweezey; and Traviesa, a 3-year-old daughter of Speightstown trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher.

Just a Photo Springs 14-1 Upset in Empire Builder Handicap

    Smith Ranch Stables’ Just a Photo came with a steady run down the center of the stretch and turned back a bid from Private Thoughts approaching the wire to spring a 14-1 upset in the $70,000 Empire Builder overnight handicap.

    Trained by Luis Ramirez and ridden by Marcos Meneses, his second victory on the afternoon, Just a Photo ($31.20) completed one mile over a firm turf course in 1:32.40 four weeks after running fourth behind Private Thoughts in Gulfstream’s Jet Propulsion, an overnight handicap going 1 1/16 miles.

    It was the speedy Prevent, breaking from Post 2 in a field of nine, who took the early initiative and went the opening quarter-mile in :23.50 seconds and a half in :45.72 under pressure on his outside from Act a Fool. Anamnestic saved ground in third inside Sherlock’s Jewel with Private Thoughts – riding a three-race win streak – settled in fourth.

    Act a Fool overtook Prevent leaving the far turn after a sharp six furlongs in 1:08.73, but had a wall of pursuers behind him once straightened for home. Private Thoughts was able to split horses and get in a challenging spot at the eighth pole but Just a Photo, swung to the far outside at the top of the stretch, powered home to win by a neck.

    Private Thoughts held second, with late-running Divin Propos, sent off the 7-5 favorite, nailing Relampago Verde by a head for third. They were followed by Act a Fool, Sherlock’s Jewel, Prevent, Tee At One and Anamnestic. 

    A gelded 5-year-old son of 2018 Triple Crown champion Justify, it was the fifth career win from 17 starts and first in a stakes for Just a Photo, who ran second in the May 17 Mr. Steele at Gulfstream and third in the Sept. 6 Colonial Cup at Colonial Downs. comments powered by Disqus