BAUER'S BETS: Fast & Firm at Tampa HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Today's play is in Race 8, Post time 3:50 PM. (8) KITTIN A GETTIN takes a significant class drop to face NW2L condition claimers for the first time and gets blinkers on today. Veteran jockey Jesus Castenon rides for Eoin Hardy who is winning at a 31% clip currently in Tampa.

THE BET $10 to win on (8) KITTEN A GETTIN and a $2 exacta box with (3) NATIONAL HONOR and (10) ENGLISH TUDOR. 3,8,10.
GOOD LUCK!! Total bet $22.

Bankroll Info. Today we start with a new bankroll for the new year 2019.

Florida Wednesday Preview: Two Carryovers at Gulfstream

Both Florida thoroughbred tracks have ten-race programs on Wednesday, and conditions that are fast and firm.

Tampa Bay Downs has first post at 12:25 p.m., and no carryovers.

Gulfstream Park has first post at 12:35 p.m. and two carryovers.

On the first race there is a Super Hi-5 carryover of $2,963.

The carryover on the Rainbow 6 is $27,851. It is on races five through ten with the sequence scheduled to start at 2:33 p.m.

Gulfstream: Zayas Out Three Months with Broken Leg

Gulfstream Park reported on Tuesday that jockey Edgard Zayas probably will be out for three months as a result of a broken leg he suffered in a spill during Sunday's firth race.

Zayas likely will spend several more days in Aventura Hospital, where on Monday he underwent surgery to repair a broken femur in his right leg.

“It looks like he’ll be out for three months,” said Zayas's friend and valet Nelson Figueroa.

Sunday's fifth race was a $16,000 claimer at 7 1/2 furlongs on turf, for 3-year-olds and up and with twelve entries.

Zayas was riding Kitten Killer, a 33-1 shot.

Kitten Killer was in tenth place on the backstretch when he stumbled and fell, tossing Zayas.

Kitten KIller suffered a shoulder injury and was later euthanized.

No other horses or jockeys were involved in the spil

           

Zayas, a 25-year-old native of Puerto Rico, has ridden fifteen winners at the Gulfstream Park 2018-2019 championship meet that opened on Dec. 1.

He led jockeys in wins at the 2018 Gulfstream Park West meet, that was run at Calder in October and November.

Gulfstream: Fast and Firm for Tuesday Card; Rainbow 6 Paid $177,317 on Sunday.

Gulfstream Park will have a special New Year's Day race card on Tuesday, with ten   races and a new Rainbow 6 pool.

First post is 12:35 p.m. The Rainbow 6 is on races five to ten, with the sequence set to start at 2:35 p.m.

There are no stakes races on  the card.

The Weather Channel forecast is for just a ten percent chance of rain during racing hours.

On Sunday, Gulfstream's most recent race day, there was just one ticket with the winners of all six Rainbow 6 races. It paid $177,317.98 on the 20 cent only bet.

Program numbers of the winning horses were 1-13-10-4-7-10.

The winning ticket was the only ticket that had Proliferate (10) in the 11th and final race, along with the winners of the five other Rainbow 6 races Proliferate won at18-1, 

Sunday's card had five turf races, all on firm ground, of 7 1/2 furlongs or longer.  All five winners, including Proliferate, were in third place or farther back coming into the final turn.

That continued a trend of early speed generally not holding up on the inner and outer portions of the new turf course that Gulfstream put in for its championship meet that began on Dec. 1.

On Tuesday, four of the Rainbow 6 races are on turf--fifth, seventh, eighth and tenth.

The Rainbow 6 tickets have a total of 62 starters including main track only and also  eligibles.

Sunday was the third day with a Rainbow 6 jackpot payoff during the first  22 days of the 2018-2019 championship meet.

Gulfstream makes a Rainbow 6  jackpot payout only on days when there is just one ticket with all six winners and on pre-announced mandatory  days when it divides the jackpot among multiple winning tickets.

The jackpot consists of 80 percent of the day's Rainbow 6 bet plus the entire incoming carryover.

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