Saturday’s Derby Day Rainbow 6 to Exceed 10 Million Dollars
Mandatory Payout of 20-cent Wager – Carryover $2.6 Million
HALLANDALE BEACH, FL - Gulfstream Park’s Rainbow 6 will have a mandatory payout Saturday on Florida Derby Day, and the pool is expected to surpass $10 million.
The 20-cent wager, unsolved for the 30th consecutive racing day Friday, will have a carryover Saturday of $2,660,030.05.
Saturday’s Rainbow 6 sequence will kick off with the ninth race – a maiden special weight event for 3-year-olds at a 1 1/16 miles on the turf – and will include the $250,000 Pan American (G2) and $1 million Xpressbet.com Florida Derby (G1).
There was $513,251 bet into the Rainbow 6 Friday afternoon. Multiple tickets with six winners Friday returned $95,775.58.
The carryover jackpot is only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day’s pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
Since the 2018-19 Championship Meet kicked off Dec. 1, the Rainbow 6 has been hit seven times, most recently for a $227,505.88 payout Feb. 15.
Saturday’s 14-race program, which begins at 11:30 a.m., will also include a $750,000 Late Pick 4 guaranteed pool and a $500,000 Late Pick 5 guaranteed pool.