Rainbow 6 Carryover Grows to $24,420 for Friday, March 22
Live Racing Returns with Nine-Race Program and 1:10 P.M. Post

LAUREL, MD – Joseph Besecker’s Nyx Warrior ($16.80) came with a steady rally on the far outside to edge Moon Virginia at the wire in Sunday’s fifth race and complete a perfect afternoon for Laurel Park’s winter meet-leading trainer Claudio Gonzalez.

Gonzalez won with each of his starters Sunday, taking four of the first five races including three in a row. His other victories came with Dr. Cerrato ($10.20) in Race 1, Cool Alley ($4.60) in Race 3 and Belmont Ride ($11.40) in Race 4.

Nyx Warrior, Cool Alley and Belmont Ride are all owned by Besecker, the founder, chairman and CEO of Lancaster, Pa.-based Emerald Asset Management, parent company to five subsidiary investment advisory firms.

“All the time you dream of this. We try every day, all my team works to try to win races and today we had everything go right,” Gonzalez said. “All the people that bet my horses, today was a good day for them.”

Gonzalez leads the winter meet with 36 wins and nearly $900,000 in purse earnings. On Saturday, he won Race 4 with Completed Pass ($13.80) and Race 6 with Dynamax Prime ($15.60), and was third with Tybalt in the $100,000 Private Terms and second with Rockinn On Bye in the $75,000 Not For Love.

“Everybody is good,” Gonzalez said. “Everybody ran big and they came back good, so we’ll see what’s next.”

Rainbow 6 Carryover Grows to $24,420 for Friday, March 22

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 went unsolved Sunday at Laurel Park, growing the carryover jackpot to $24,420.27 for the return of live racing Friday, March 22. The nine-race program begins with a 1:10 p.m. first post.

Two horses were live to take down the jackpot heading into the ninth-race finale, won by Mr. Chesapeakecity ($9) to complete the winning 8-3-7-4-5-6 sequence.

A total of $10,388 was bet into the popular multi-race wager Sunday, which began with a carryover of $21,097.98 from Saturday’s stakes-filled Federico Tesio Preview Day program. Tickets with five of six winners each returned $258.90.

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, 60 percent of that day’s pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 40 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.

Sunday’s jackpot was the largest in Laurel’s Rainbow 6 since a $21,746 carryover following the Dec. 21, 2018 program. It was solved the following day for a payout of $31,286.30.

The March 22 Rainbow 6 spans Races 4-9 and includes a pair of optional claiming allowance races for older horses, a $45,000 second-level event at about 1 1/16 miles in Race 7 and a $47,000 third-level contest in Race 8 going six furlongs and featuring 2018 Maryland Million Classic winner Saratoga Bob.

Notes: Jockey Sheldon Russell had a riding triple Sunday, aboard Colmont Fire ($29.80) in Race 2, Top Hat Tizzy ($6) in Race 7 and Past Perfect ($16.60) in Race 8.