Monday, January 6, 2025
HALLANDALE BEACH - A mandatory payout of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool yielded multiple payoffs of $36,102 Sunday at Gulfstream Park.
It was the first mandatory Rainbow 6 payout of the 2024-2025 Championship Meet, which began Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28. The multi-race wager had been solved twice, for life-changing payoffs of $489,592 Dec. 15 and $244,071 Dec. 21.
The Rainbow 6 had gone unsolved for nine days. A total of $2,511,879 was bet into the pool Sunday on top of a $337,274 carryover from Saturday’s 11-race program.
Cat Eyes ($33) captured Sunday’s Race 10 finale to complete the winning 1-7-10-2-6-4 combination. Other winners in the sequence were Sol d’Oro ($9) in Race 5, Tiz Romantic ($9.80) in Race 6, Big Boy Jak ($11.60) in Race 7, Brees ($19.60) in Race 8 and War Signal ($4.40) in Race 9.
The Rainbow 6 begins anew spanning Races 4-9 when the Championship Meet resumes Wednesday. First race post time is 12:20 p.m.
Wednesday’s Rainbow 6 sequence includes a maiden special weight for 3-year-old fillies sprinting 5 ½ furlongs on the all-weather Tapeta course featuring a pair of first-time starters from Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher, Amande and Cantora, as well as Mischief in Motion, a $525,000 debut runner by Into Mischief trainer for trainer Mike Trombetta.
Race 8 is an optional claiming allowance going five furlongs on the Tapeta that drew eight 3-year-old fillies including last-out maiden winner Mattinata; Laurice, unraced since finishing fifth in the six-furlong Matron (G3) last fall at Aqueduct; and Rohan Crichton-trained stablemates Sweet Sash and Bad Gal Party, both with wins over the Gulfstream Tapeta.
Gulfstream Well-Represented Among Eclipse Award Finalists
Led by Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) winner Soul of an Angel, Gulfstream Park was well represented among the 2024 Eclipse Award finalists announced Sunday. Soul of an Angel won Gulfstream’s Princess Rooney (G3) last summer to earn an automatic berth in the Breeders’ Cup, where she rallied from the clouds for a 19-1 upset. Her trainer, Saffie Joseph Jr., has won 11 consecutive meet titles at Gulfstream including each of the last three Championship Meets.
Other finalists in the female sprinter category are Society and Ways and Means, a 2023 maiden winner at Gulfstream.
National Treasure is one of three finalists in the older dirt male category. National Treasure won the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) last January as a preview for his victory in the Met Mile (G1). He was ridden by Flavien Prat, expected to earn his first Eclipse as top jockey off a record-setting season with 82 stakes wins, 56 graded.
The 3-year-old male category has both Fierceness and Dornoch among the finalists. Fierceness won the Florida Derby (G1) in his second sophomore start and went on to win the Jim Dandy (G2) and Travers (G1) and run second in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1). Dornoch captured the Fountain of Youth (G2) in his season debut before winning the Belmont (G1) and Haskell (G1).
Joining Prat as jockey finalists are Gulfstream regulars Irad Ortiz Jr. and Tyler Gaffalione. Ortiz won his fifth Championship Meet title and seven graded-stakes at the 2023-2024 stand and has won five prior Eclipse Awards. Gaffalione, the champion apprentice of 2015, is a native of nearby Davie. That ranked sixth with 51 wins, four graded, and $2.9 million in purse earnings last winter.
The Eclipse Award winners will be announced Jan. 23 from Palm Beach.
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