Monday’s Jackpot Super High Five Carryover at $444,608
Stablemates Galerio, Double Crown Top Monday Feature
BALTIMORE – Historic Pimlico Race Course will serve up a special nine-race Memorial Day holiday program Monday featuring six-figure carryovers in the 20-cent Rainbow 6 and $1 Jackpot Super High Five wagers and a stakes-quality feature for 3-year-olds and up.
First race post time is 12:25 p.m.
The 20-cent Rainbow 6 went unsolved for the 11th straight racing day Sunday, pushing the carryover jackpot to $454,077.75 for Monday. A total of $66,893 was put into the popular multi-race wager Sunday, which began with a carryover of $432,683.12 from Saturday’s program.
Multiple tickets with all six winners in Sunday’s Rainbow 6 paid $1,395.30.
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 40 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
Maryland’s state-record Rainbow 6 carryover reached $1,435,080.75 over 27 consecutive racing programs before a mandatory payout of $31,028.08 to multiple ticketholders July 4, 2021.
Monday’s Rainbow 6 covers Races 4-9, opening with a starter optional claimer for 3-year-olds and up scheduled to sprint five furlongs on the grass. Nine were entered including a pair from trainer Robert Wolfe Jr. – Bourbon Currency, who rallied to be second despite a troubled trip in a 5 ½-furlong turf sprint May 5 at Laurel Park; and Papal Law, a nine-time winner from 49 career starts making his 10-year-old debut off a runner-up finish, beaten a half-length, in a similar spot last October, also at Laurel.
Moshe Mark’s stakes winner Honor the Fleet is entered to make his 53rd start in Race 5, a 1 1/16-mile claimer for 3-year-olds and up. The 9-year-old gelding , winner of the 2020 Fire Plug at Laurel and third in Monmouth’s Pegasus (G3) in 2017, was claimed out of a 5 ½-length victory April 15 at Laurel and returns to trainer Kieron Magee after running eighth last out May 4. Forloveofcountry, two-for-two lifetime at Pimlico, will be racing first off the claim for trainer Jose Corrales following a front-running 3 ¼-length triumph May 12.
Race 6 is a maiden special weight for horses ages 3, 4 and 5 scheduled for one mile on the grass. The 9-5 program favorite is West Point Thoroughbreds and Maccabee Farm’s 3-year-old Collected colt Royal Velvet, a $110,000 yearling purchase trained by Christophe Clement that went winless in two New York starts last year and will race on Lasix for the first time from Post 7 in a field of nine. Among the challengers is Kevin Joy’s Occasional Moon, a 3-year-old Malibu Moon gelding making his turf debut after running second in back-to-back starts, beaten a nose in a one-mile maiden claimer May 5 at Laurel.
Seven 3-year-olds and up were entered in Race 7, a six-furlong starter optional claimer sprinting six furlongs on the main track. Top contenders include Air Token, winner of the 2020 Concern and 2021 Maryland Million Sprint at Laurel that has placed in four other stakes, and multiple stakes-placed 7-year-old gelding Youngest of Five.
Trainer Nick Dilodovico will run both Galerio and Grade 2 winner Double Crown, each owned by Built Wright Stables, in Monday’s featured Race 8, a stakes-quality third-level optional claiming allowance for 3-year-olds and up going 1 1/16 miles.
Winner of Laurel’s 2022 John B. Campbell, 7-year-old gelding Galerio has been third or better in 33 of 39 career starts with 10 wins, finishing second in each of his last three races, beaten less than a length in each of the last two. Favored at 2-1 on the morning line, he will break from Post 1 under jockey Angel Cruz.
Double Crown, 6, drew Post 2 under Horacio Karamanos and stretches back out to two turns off a sixth in a seven-furlong optional claimer May 4 at Churchill Downs. Second to Nimitz Class in the one-mile Harrison Johnson March 18 at Laurel, he sprung a 42-1 upset in the 2022 Kelso (G2), also at one mile, won the 2020 Roar and Carry Back and was third in the Smile Sprint (G3) at Gulfstream Park, and second to Yaupon in the six-furlong Chick Lang (G3) at Pimlico.
“Galerio has been knocking at the door for a long time. He’s a stakes winner. He’s solid. He is a really nice horse,” Dilodovico, the son of Laurel-based trainer Damon Dilodovico, said. “Double Crown is a very nice horse. The race he ran at Churchill was a little disappointing. He won the Kelso and you kind of expect a lot from him. I wonder if the race kind of fell apart. He came to the barn in Maryland maybe a week and a half ago and he’s been doing well. I’m really happy with him.
“They’re two different kind of horses. Galerio is a little bit more intense, kind of high strung, and Double Crown is way more relaxed. I would love to cut him back, actually. I think he’d be really solid. He’s a two or three time stakes winner going short. I’d love to get him back to three-quarters. He’s definitely class,” he added. “We also have a good starter [Air Token] in [Monday]. It could be a good weekend. I hope that it pans out.”
Monday’s Race 9 finale is a five-furlong claimer for 3-year-olds and up that have never won two races scheduled for the grass. Star Shopping is seeking his first turf win after two seconds and three thirds in nine previous tries, beaten 1 ¼ lengths when third May 11 in his Pimlico debut. Bourbon Ready, a 10 ¼-length maiden optional claimer to open the year Jan. 8 at Gulfstream Park, will be racing first time for trainer Arnaud Delacour after going 1-for-8 for Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher.
Monday’s $1 Jackpot Super High Five carryover stands at $444,608.21 after going unsolved for a sixth straight racing day Saturday. Multiple winning tickets were each worth $4,035.
A total of $46,817 was wagered into the Jackpot Super High Five on top of a $424,711.24 carryover from Saturday. The wager was last hit for a $10,383.50 payout May 14 at Pimlico.
Launched April 1, on opening day of Laurel Park’s spring meet, the Jackpot Super High Five takes place in Race 6 every live race day. In the Jackpot Super High 5, the jackpot is paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with each of the first five finishers in exact order. On days when there is no unique ticket, 50 percent of that day’s pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with all five finishers while 50 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.
If there is no ticket with all five finishers in exact order, the entire pool will be carried over to the next day’s Jackpot Super High Five.
Notes: Multiple stakes winner Can the Queen ($4.80), owned and trained by Joanne Shankle, overcame being bumped at the break to register a popular front-running 1 ¼-length optional claiming allowance victory in Race 4 Sunday, just her second start this year. The winning time was 57.69 seconds for five furlongs over a firm turf course … Victor Carrasco captured Sunday’s Race 8 finale aboard Zip Line to Heaven ($10.40), his 1,200th career victory.