Guide to Handicapping Gulfstream's Rainbow 6

Gulfstream Park's mandatory payout Rainbow 6 begins on today's seventh race, with scheduled post of 3:22 p.m.

First post is 12:00 p.m. for the 12-race card on closing day of the spring/summer meet.

The carryover on the Rainbow 6 is $745,537.    Gulfstream officials expect that as much as $5 million will be bet on the Rainbow 6 today. 

It is a 20 cents per combination-only bet. Multiple horses can be included in each race.

Skies were clear at and around Gulfstream, in Hallandale Beach, Fla., at 10:00 a.m.

The Weather Channel forecast is for the chance of rain to range between 15 percent and 25 percent during racing hours.

On this blog we will have information on track conditions when it is available, and we will have race coverage during the afternoon.

This link https://www.equibase.com/static/entry/RaceCardIndexGP092720USA-EQB.html to the Equibase Web site has the Gulfstream entries for Sunday, including scratches. It has click-ons for handicapping material--some free and some at cost.

This linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuBKG5_Oq2g&feature=youtu.be is to a  video of Gulfstream TV analysts Jason Blewitt and Ron Nicoletti making their picks for the Rainbow 6,

Gulfstream will pay out its Rainbow 6 jackpot (full carryover plus 80 percent of today's new Rainbow 6 bets) regardless of the number of tickets with all six winners. 

Gulfstream also will have mandatory payouts--i.e. no carryovers--on the Late Pick 5 and on the Super Hi-5 in the 12th race.

The Gulfstream Park West meet, at Calder in Miami Gardens, will open on Saturday Oct. 3.  A Florida law prohibits pari-mutuels from continuing a carryover into a successive meet.

*Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gulfstream remains closed to bettors and thus has no on-site wagering.

Betting on Gulfstream races may be done on most Advance Deposit Wagering (ADW) Internet and phone services. Many sports books, race tracks and OTB offices have simulcasting on Gulfstream races.