Rainbow 6 Carryover Swells to $109,253 for Friday, March 23
Rainbow 6 Carryover Swells to $109,253 for Friday, March 23
Meet-Leading Trainer Gonzalez Enjoys Four-Win Day
Journeyman Karamanos Rides First Winner of Comeback
LAUREL, MD – Live racing returns to Laurel Park Friday, March 23 with a jackpot carryover of $109,253.01 in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 after the popular multi-race wager went unsolved during Sunday’s program.
Four horses were live to take down the jackpot heading into the ninth-race finale, won by even-money favorite Punch Nephew ($4). A total of $44,872 was bet into the Rainbow 6, adding to a carryover of $94,895.62 from Saturday’s stakes-filled St. Patrick’s Day program.
Multiple tickets with all six winners were each worth $5,384.02.
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.
Friday’s Rainbow 6 covers Races 4-9, highlighted by a $40,000 maiden special weight for fillies and mares 3 and up going six furlongs in Race 7.
There will also be a carryover of $2,243.49 in the $1 Super Hi-5 for Friday’s opener. First race post time is 1:10 p.m.
Meet-Leading Trainer Gonzalez Enjoys Four-Win Day
Winter-spring meet-leading trainer Claudio Gonzalez sent out four winners from five starters Sunday.
Gonzalez, Maryland’s leading trainer in 2017, captured back-to-back races with Pachi Cruze ($9.80) in the second and Hashtag Selfie ($2.80) in the third. He followed up with wins in the fifth with Young American ($4.40) and Mischief Maas ($3.80) in the sixth, also running second with Candycoated Dame.
In the fourth race, Gonzalez finished second with Miss Nosy, favored winner of the Maryland Million Distaff last fall.
“I’m feeling good. It’s not easy to win one race but to have four winners, it’s great,” Gonzalez said. “It’s because of my team. They’re all working really hard and it’s very good for me. I have a great team.”
Gonzalez leads the winter-spring meet with 24 wins, 10 more than runner-up Kieron Magee. Gonzalez is also first with $689,490 in purse earnings.
Journeyman Karamanos Rides First Winner of Comeback
Sue Mancilla’s Sebray ($18.40) captured Sunday’s seventh race, a $19,000 claiming event for 4-year-olds and up, to give journeyman Horacio Karamanos his first win since returning from injury over the weekend.
Karamanos, a perennial leading rider in Maryland who earned his 2,000th career victory last summer at Laurel, suffered a minor fracture of his T-5 vertebrae when thrown from his mount, Marie From Parie, Jan. 14 at Laurel.
He began getting on horses again last week for trainer Mary Eppler at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream Park’s satellite training facility in Palm Beach County, Fla., returning to the irons March 16 at Laurel.
“It took me a little time to come back but I’m back again and I feel happy to win again at Laurel, my home track,” Karamanos said. “I feel good. I’m happy to win.”
Notes: Jockey Jomar Torres visited the winner’s circle twice Sunday with Pachi Cruze ($9.80) in the second race and Young American ($4.40) in the fifth. Torres is third in the rider standings with 21 wins, four behind runner-up, apprentice Wes Hamilton, who was first with Punch Nephew ($4) in the ninth after picking up four winners Saturday. Meet-leading rider Jorge Vargas Jr. took off his remaining three mounts with back spasms.
