Monday’s Memorial Day Program Closes Meet with Mandatory Payouts

Jockey, Trainer Titles Going Down to the Wire

 

BALTIMORE – Panic Stable’s Sylphide, winless in four starts including a try against older horses over the winter and spring in South Florida, broke her maiden in front-running fashion in Sunday’s featured third race at Pimlico Race Course.

 

A sophomore daughter of Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Blame, Sylphide ($8.40) ran five furlongs in 58.40 seconds over a firm turf course to win by three lengths in the $40,000 maiden special weight for fillies and mares 3 and up.

 

Sylphide broke running from outside Post 11 and cruised to the front while kept in the clear three wide by Hall of Fame jockey Edgar Prado, going a quarter-mile in 23.35 seconds and a half in 46.63. Once straightened for home, the filly powered down the center of the course under a hand ride while 60-1 long shot Line of Music made a belated bid for second.

 

“I was watching all her races at Gulfstream and it seemed like she was going pretty fast the first part of the race, 20 and change, 21 and change, and kind of giving up a little bit at the end,” Prado said. “Today she got the outside post and I let her break nice and easy. She settled nice for me and she had plenty left in the end.”

 

Monday’s Memorial Day Program Closes Meet with Mandatory Payouts

 

As part of Monday’s special nine-race Memorial Day holiday program, there will be mandatory payouts in the 20-cent Rainbow 6, 50-cent Late Pick 5 and $1 Super Hi-5 wagers on closing day of the Preakness Meet at Pimlico. First race post time is 1:10 p.m.

 

Following the conclusion of Pimlico’s 12-day stand, live racing shifts to Laurel Park for its summer meet that runs Friday, June 9 through Sunday, Aug. 20. Latin American Racing Channel simulcast wagering will be available at Laurel during the break between meets.

 

The Rainbow 6 jackpot is paid out only when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 60 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. However, on days when a mandatory payout is scheduled the entire pool is shared by those holding tickets with the most winners.

 

No one selected all six winners in Sunday’s Rainbow 6, creating a jackpot carryover of $885.87. Tickets with five of six winners were worth $78.16.

 

Monday’s Rainbow 6 spans Races 4-9.

 

Notes: Jockey Feargal Lynch swept the late double aboard Immunity ($7.40) in the ninth race and King of the Jungle ($4.80) in the 10th, while apprentice rider Carlos Carrasco had two winners Sunday with Supero ($5.20) in the second race and Happy Farm ($10.60) in the eighth. … Lynch and Carrasco are among seven riders tied for second in the standings with six wins apiece, one behind meet leader Horacio Karamanos. … Graham Motion, Mary Eppler, Kieron Magee and Mike Trombetta are tied atop the trainer standings at five wins apiece.

 

Rainbow 6 Carryover: $885.87