Live Racing Returns Friday with $74,400 Rainbow 6 Carryover
Live Racing Returns Friday with $74,400 Rainbow 6 Carryover
Champion Jockey Toledo Picks Up First Win in Comeback
LAUREL, MD – The 20-cent Rainbow 6 went unsolved Sunday at Laurel Park, creating a jackpot carryover of $74,400.54 for when live racing returns with an eight-race program Friday, March 16.
Two horses, Summer Run (5-1) and True Arch (16-1), were live to take down the jackpot heading into the ninth-race finale, won by The Great Ronaldo ($6.80). Summer Run finished fifth.
A total of $36,585 was wagered into the popular multi-race wager, adding to a carryover of $62,695 from Saturday’s program. Multiple tickets with all six winners were each worth $3,511.62.
Friday’s Rainbow 6 covers Races 3-8 and includes a $42,000 entry-level optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds going 5 ½ furlongs in Race 6 and a $42,000 entry-level allowance for 4-year-olds and up at six furlongs in Race 7.
First race post time is 1:10 p.m.
Champion Jockey Toledo Picks Up First Win in Comeback
John Salzman Jr. and Fred Wasserloos’ The Great Ronaldo, off slowly from the gate, came storming down the middle of the track to capture Sunday’s finale and give jockey Jevian Toledo the first win in his third mount since returning March 9 from injury.
Toledo, Maryland’s leading rider in 2015 and 2017, had been out since fracturing two vertebrae in his middle back and suffering a collapsed lung in a spill during training hours Jan. 21 at Laurel.
“It feels so, so good. I can’t explain it,” Toledo said. “When you cross the wire in front, and even just being on horses, that’s what I love. I am so happy right now.
“I was out about seven weeks. I was around the house and didn’t do much but by the fifth week I started running and getting fit and going to the gym and rode the bike and swam in the pool, as well,” he added. “I got back on horses for about two weeks and got back in shape quick.”
Notes: Jockeys Steve Hamilton and Edwin Gonzalez, shaken up in a three-horse spill Saturday, each returned with winners Sunday. Hamilton took the third race on Colonel Crawford ($9.80) and Gonzalez followed in the fourth aboard Grande Beso ($6). Jockey Elvis Trujillo, who was also involved, took off his mounts with body soreness but is expected to return Friday.
