HALLANDALE BEACH - The 20-cent Rainbow 6 will have an estimate pool of $700,000 when racing resumes Wednesday at Gulfstream Park with a 1:10 p.m. first race post time.

    A mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 pool has been scheduled for Sunday. The week will also feature Saturday’s 78th running of the 1 1/16-mile Fountain of Youth, Gulfstream’s next step for 3-year-olds on the road to the $1 million Florida Derby on March 30. The 14-race Saturday program features nine stakes, eight graded, worth $1.85 million in purses.

    Wednesday’s sequence will begin with Race 3, a maiden claiming event for fillies and mares at a mile and 70 yards on Tapeta. The day’s featured seventh race will be a $91,000 allowance optional claiming event at 1 ½ miles on the turf for 4-year-olds and up. Value Engineering, winner of last winter’s Gr. II Mac Diarmida are among the 10 entered. comments powered by Disqus