Rainbow 6 Solved Saturday for $230,597 Payoff; Sagamore’s Recruiting Ready Sizzles in Race Debut
Rainbow 6 Solved Saturday for $230,597 Payoff; Sagamore’s Recruiting Ready Sizzles in Race Debut
Super Hi-5 Carryover of $2,946 for Sunday’s Opener
Sagamore’s Recruiting Ready Sizzles in Race Debut
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BALTIMORE – One lucky bettor solved the 20-cent Rainbow 6 at historic Pimlico Race Course Saturday when Black Swan Stable’s Ruston Vow captured the 10th-race finale for a $230,597.20 payoff.
Trained by Lacey Gaudet and ridden by Horacio Karamanos, Ruston Vow ($11.80) was one of two horses live to take down the jackpot heading into the last race. Sent off at 9-2 in a field of nine, the 3-year-old Broken Vow gelding ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:45.10 over a firm turf course.
A total of $54,251 was wagered into the popular multi-race wager on Saturday, which included a carryover of $187,186.95 from Friday’s program. The winning numbers in the six-race sequence were 2-5-8-6-7-1.
The Rainbow 6 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.
On Sunday, the Rainbow 6 begins anew covering Races 4-9 and includes the featured eighth race, a $35,000 allowance for fillies and mares 3 and up going five furlongs on the turf course which attracted a field of 12.
First race post time is 1:10 p.m.
Also on Sunday, there will be a $1 Super Hi-5 carryover of $2,946.27 for the opener.
Sagamore’s Recruiting Ready Sizzles in Race Debut
Making his career debut, Sagamore Farm’s Recruiting Ready ($3.20) flirted with Pimlico’s 4 ½-furlong track record in a front-running 10 ¼-length score to kick off Saturday’s program.
Favored at 3-5 in a field of seven under Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado, the 2-year-old bay Algorithms colt sizzled through an opening quarter-mile in 22.39 seconds, opening up after a half in 45.52 and hitting the wire in 51.78 over a fast main track in the $40,000 maiden special weight event.
The final time was .28 off the track record of 51.50 seconds set by Countess Diana on June 6, 1997. Countess Diana would go on to be a multiple Grade 1 winner and 2-year-old filly champion of 1997.
“The horse has been training really well lately and he’s got a lot of class,” winning trainer Horacio DePaz said. “We got him from Florida in late April and he’s been really forward since day one.”
Under Armor founder and CEO Kevin Plank’s Sagamore Racing purchased Recruiting Ready for $110,000 out of Keeneland’s September yearling sale last fall. He showed four works at Laurel Park for his unveiling, including a bullet half-mile in 48 seconds May 15.
“With a win like that you want to definitely take care of him and put him in the right spot. He’s got a lot of talent,” DePaz said. “He’s a very talented horse. I’ll just train him and see what they want to do. We’ll keep him because Kevin wants a nice horse. This is a nice 2-year-old colt so we’re just going to try to develop him from here.”
Note: After posting a riding triple on Thursday, jockey Fergal Lynch added two more victories Saturday with She’s On a Roll ($6.20) in the second race and Zippity Gal ($17.20) in the seventh. Pimlico-based trainer Tom Iannotti IV saddled a pair of winners, She’s On a Roll and Because He Can ($4) in the sixth.
