Saturday, April 8, 2017

Batallion Runner Looks Strong in Wood

The Wood Memorial is coming up at 5:52, and we like  Battalion er, followed  by Cloud Computing.

Pletcher seems to like Battalion Runner as much s Always Dreaming who  ran away  with the Florida Derby.

Gulfstream Rainbow 67 Grows by $70,000

S S Illuminanti, at 6-1, won the sixth race and Wild Impulse, the 9-5  favorite, won the seventh race to  start Saturday's  Rainbow  6 at Gulfstream.

Bettors added $70,286  to the Rainbow 6 pool.  The carryover coming in was $18,491.

 

Sunday, April 2, 2017

Stakes on the Way at Tampa Bay

The eighth race is coming up at Tampa Bay, on its annual Florida Cup day.

It, will be the first of three straight $100,000 stakes races, all restricted to Florida breds.

8th race -- Sophomore Turf  1 1/16 miles
9th race -- Sophomore Fillies,  7 fulongs
10th  race -- Distaff Turf   1 1/16 miles

We will have reports on these races and on Sunday's three previous Tampa Bay stakes by our correspondent Bob Bauer.
 

Rainbow 6 Coming Up at Gulfstream

The sixth race is coming up at Gulfstream with  Rainbow  6 carryover of $1,911,408.

It is the final day of the championship meet, and thus there is  a mandatory payout of the carryover plus 80 percent of the day's Rainbow 6  bet.

There are 59 runners in the Rainbow 6 races.  Going ALL in every race would cost $171,072.