Eight Belles: Look for Cajun Delta Dawn

The Eight Belles, at seven furlongs on dirt for 3-YO fillies is coming up at Churchill Downs.

We are looking for  Cajun Delta Dawn  (14) to run a big race, based on her three wins in four starts on off tracks.

Churchill Conditions are Sloppy and Good

The dirt track is listed as sloppy and the turf course is listed as good for today’s 13-race card that is underway at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.
 

The Weather Channel forecast is for at least an 85 percent chance of rain through the remainder of the afternoon in Louisville. 

That means the track  likely will be sloppy or even muddy for the Kentucky Oaks (Grade 1) with scheduled post of 6:12 p.m.

The chance of rain will decease to 5 percent early Saturday morning, but will be 50 percent or more from about 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

Clear skies are expected for the Kentucky Derby (Grade 1) with post time of 6:46 p.m.  The track condition will  depend on how quickly the track dries out on Saturday afternoon.

--Jim Freer

First Post Coming Up at Gulfstresam

Gulfstream Park has a nine-race card on Thursday, with first post coming up at 1:15 p.m.

The feature is the sixth race.  It is a one-mile turf  allowance/optional claimer for 3-year-olds and up.  The purse is $44,000 and the optional claiming price is $62,500. 

It is the sixth race with scheduled post of 3:58 p.m.

Two Step Time and Quiet Force,  both trained by Mike Maker,  are likely favorites in a seven-horse field.

Two Step Time’s last ten races have been stakes.  The 4-year-old colt finished third or better in three of them. 

That includes a third  place finish in the 1 1/16 mile Tropical Park Derby at Gulfstream last Dec 30.Emisael Jaramillo will ride Two Step Time, owned by  Get  Away Farm.

 

Quiet Force has finished third or better in six of his eleven  turf starts at Gulfstream. That includes three victories.

Tyler Gaffalione will ride Quiet Force, a  non-gelded 7-year-old owned by Rev it Up Racing and Imaginary Stables.

Bashart (Patrick Biancone-Anthony Crastus) and the late-running J R’s Holiday (Henry Collazo-Martin Ramirez)  are main threats to the Maker  horses.

The Thursday card has  a Rainbow 6 carryover of $42,412, on races  four through nine.

Conditions are listed as fast and firm. The Weather Channel  forecast is for less than a 25  percent  chance of rain during racing hours.

*Gulfstream will have two stakes races on Saturday.

The $75,000 English Channel is 1 1/16 miles on turf for 3-year-olds. The $75,000 Honey  Ryder is  1 1/16 miles on turf for 3-year-old fillies.

Gulfstream Rainbow 6 Carryover Reaches $42,453

Gulfstream Park will have a carryover of $42,453 on its Rainbow 6 on Thursday.

Gulfstream will have a nine-race card with first post of 1:15 p.m.  The Rainbow 6 will be on races four to nine, with the sequence scheduled to start at 2:43 p.m.

On Wednesday, there were 185 tickets with the winners in all six Rainbow 6 races. Each of those tickets received $129.38.

HorseRacingFLA’s review of Equibase charts shows that was the 11^th lowest Rainbow 6 payoff at Gulfstream since we began tracking that data  in August 2015.

The low  payoff came on a  day when the odds on the six winning horses were: 1-1, 8-5, 5-2, 6-5, 3-2 and 5-2.

Wednesday was the third straight race day with multiple winning tickets in the Rainbow 6—thus continuing the carryover.

Gulfstream pays out the Rainbow 6  jackpot only on days when there is just one ticket with the winners of all six Rainbow 6 races.

The jackpot is the combination of the full  carryover plus 80 percent of the day’s new Rainbow 6 bet (20 percent takeout).

On days with multiple winning tickets, Gulfstream takes out 20 percent of the day’s Rainbow 6 bet. It then divides 56 percent of the day’s Rainbow 6 bet among tickets with the most winners (usually six) and adds 24 percent to the carryover.

On Wednesday, the carryover coming in was $32,283. Bettors added $42,212 to the Rainbow 6 pool.

The Rainbow 6 is a 20-cent per combination-only bet. Multiple horses can be used in each race, thus setting up a ticket with multiple 20 cent combinations.  For example, a ticket with two horses in each race has 64 combinations and costs $12.80.