Sunday's Gulfstream Racing Cancelled

 The weekend's heavy rains from Tropical Storm Alex forced cancellation of both Saturday's and Sunday's racing at the Hallandale Beach, Fla. track.

Our post Friday evening showed a race program for Saturday, but that did not occur. Read that post for the Friday race results and carryovers. The carryovers will be available for the next live racing day, Thursday, June 9th.

We'll give you an update on the entries and the Thursday racing card on Wednesday evening.
Stay safe!

 

Gulfstream's Saturday Racing; Carryovers

 

 Gulfstream Park has a ten-race card scheduled for Saturday. First post is at 1:05 PM, and the last post is 5:51 PM.

There is one stakes races on the card. Race 9; the Ginger Punch. It is for three y/o and up; 7-1/2 furlongs on the turf. The purse is $65,000. Sugar Fix, at 6:5 is the race favorite. The 5th through 10th races are the Rainbow 6 races, starting at approximately 3:13 PM.

   

The two carryovers on the day are the Rainbow 6 at $525,978, and the Super Hi-5 at $3,866. Gulfstream is guaranteeing a $700,000 gross pool on the Rainbow 6 if wagering does not total that amount.

In Friday's racing action, 7 winners hit the Rainbow 6, each pocketing a tidy sum of $6,701.04. Two favorites won in the Rainbow 6 races, and the 15:1 Check the Grade was the longshot win in race 10.  The late Pick 5 paid $4,017.45 to about 12 winners also. The Super High-5 should run in race #1, as 8 starters are listed. Seven is the minimum for this $1 wager. Thunderstorms and winds are expected Saturday also during racing hours from tropical storm ALEX as it crosses Florida this weekend.

 

Bettors added $81,254 to the wagering, with 44 horses running in the Rainbow 6.

Total all-sources track handle was $2.997 million Friday.

Be safe out there !

Friday's Gulfstream Racing; Two Carryovers

Gulfstream Park will run eight races Friday, with a first post at 1:05 p.m.

Two carryovers are slated. The Rainbow 6, at $506,478, and the Super Hi-5 at $2,256.. The Rainbow 6 wager is on races 3 to 8, with the sequence scheduled to start at 2:14 p.m.

Gulfstream is setting a guaranteed gross pool of $700,000 Friday if the wagering + carryover are less than that.

Thursday's racing was one for the record-books.

First, no favorites won their races. That is rare. No favorite finish better than third (Show). Next, huge payouts were made on the Pick 5 and Rainbow 6. The early and late Pick-5 bets paid $25,514 and $40,506 respectively. No favorites winning was the cause of that. The high-odds winner at 14.7:1 in race 5 included BOTH the early and late Pick 5 bets. Our data shows about 9 winners on the early Pick 5 and three winners on the late Pick 5. Fifty-One horses raced in the Rainbow 6.

The Rainbow 6 paid $30,274.74 to three lucky patrons.The winning program numbers were: 8-5-3-5-10-2.

Betting on the Rainbow 6 was $162,234, and all sources track handle was $3.93 million Thursday. Stay tuned for some potentially crazy racing action again Friday.

 

Gulfstream Racing Thursday; 1:05 PM Post Time

 

Gulfstream Park will host eight races on Thursday, with first post at 1:05 p.m, and continue the race week through Sunday.

There are no stakes races slated for Thursday.

The usual suspect is on the carryover Thursday. The Rainbow 6, at $467,553. The 20 cents per combination-only bet is on races three to eight, with the sequence scheduled to start at 2:07 p.m.

Gulfstream is guaranteeing that Thursday's Rainbow 6 will have a $650,000 gross pool of the entire coming in carryover plus all of the days Rainbow 6 bets - to be paid if there is just one ticket with the winners of all six Rainbow 6 races.

If there are multiple tickets with all six winning horses,  Gulfstream will take out 20 percent. It will then divide 56 percent among tickets with six winners and add 24 percent to the carryover.

On the last race day, Sunday, there were 230 Rainbow 6 winners, each paid a miserly $373.58. Here's the reasons. Race 10 was moved off the turf to the All-Weather surface due to rainy conditions. Therefore, the bettors got a free pass on race 10; all horses were winners of race 10 for wagering purposes. The Rainbow 6 was in effect a Pick 5. And the Pick 5 was a Pick 4. Plus the high odds winner was just 7.4:1 in race 5 covering the Rainbow 6 wagers. The winning program numbers for the Rainbow 6 were: 8-7-6/10/12/13-1/6/7-4-ALL. So, in sum, when the track surface is changed after the wagering is complete, the bettors get ALL runners as winners in that race. Hope I explained that well.

Betting on the Rainbow 6 Sunday was $153,486, while total all-sources track handle was $5.21 million.