GP West on Saturday: Nine Stakes Races; Rainbow 6 Carryover of $642,402

The Gulfstream Park West meet will have nine stakes races on Saturday, along with a carryover of $642,402 on the Rainbow 6.

First  post  will be 12:00 p.m. for an 11-race card, at Calder in Miami Gardens.


The stakes will be race numbers one through four, and then six through ten.  All are restricted to Florida breds and have $75,000 purses.

Conditions are listed as Fast and Firm. The Weather Channel forecast is for a  30 percent chance of rain during racing hours.

We  will have previews and other coverage starting  late this morning on this blog.


This link http://www.equibase.com/static/entry/RaceCardIndexGPW110919USA-EQB.html to the Equibase Web site has the GP West entries for this Saturday.  It provides access to past  performances and other handicapping products.

Meet sponsor Gulfstream Park is calling the card the Millions Preview.  Four of the races have distances and  conditions that  are similar to stakes races with larger purses that will be run on  the Sunshine Millions program at Gulfstream on Jan.  18.

The first race has a carryover of $2,417 in the Super Hi-5.

It is the Millions Turf Preview, at 1 1/16 miles for 3-year-olds and up.

The likely  favorite is Galleon Mast, who won this race last year.  Paco Lopez will ride for trainer David Fawkes.

The Rainbow 6 will be on races six to eleven, with the sequence scheduled to start at 2:26 p.m.

The carryover is now 28 days old--following Friday that was still another day without the jackpot takedown requirement of just one ticket with all six winning horses.

On Friday there were  three tickets with all six winners.. Each paid $30,082 on the 20-cent per combination only bet.

Program numbers of the winning horses were  3-4-1-5-1-12.

The small number of winning tickets is attributable largely to victories by Bunyan's Axe, at  12-1. in the fifth race and Alafia, at 19-1, in the eighth race.

Bettors put $161,182 into the Rainbow 6.  Following the 20 percent takeout, Gulfstream  distributed 56 percent of the day's  bet among the three winning tickets and added 24 percent to  the carryover.

Friday's Rainbow 6 betting was the second highest in the 28-day old GP West meet.

With the attraction of stakes races, we expect that  Rainbow 6 betting will be between $250,000 and $300,000 on Saturday.
--Jim Freer