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After weeks and weeks of carryovers, it finally happened: the Rainbow 6 at Gulfstream Park was taken down with a single winning ticket. The extraordinary run over carryovers, reaching approximately $3.6 million in today's pool, came to an end due to a sequence that began with a $100 winner and was followed by double digit horses all the way to the tenth and final race. The Rainbow 6, a $0.10 base wager that requires a single winning ticket in order to trigger a payout of the entire pool, was last hit on Dec. 28. when it paid almost $41,000.
According to an article at the Daily Racing Form, the winning ticket was sold at the Meadowlands and cost $3,118.50. Friday's pool had 4,387,330 combinations.
Heading into the last leg of the Rainbow 6, five horses were alive to pay one lucky bettor the entire $3.6 million pot (before taxes, of course). Below are the Will Pays going into the final leg of today's Rainbow 6:
| Horse | Odds | Payout | Pays To - |
| 1 | 9/1 | $ 3,591,245.44 | Jackpot |
| 2 | 10/1 | $ 3,591,245.44 | Jackpot |
| 3 | 3/1 | $ 3,591,245.44 | Jackpot |
| 4 | SCR | $ 3,509.86 | 5-of-6, Carryover |
| 5 | 25/1 | $ 8,774.65 | 5-of-6, Carryover |
| 6 | 14/1 | $ 6,016.90 | 5-of-6, Carryover |
| 7 | 9/1 | $ 3,591,245.44 | Jackpot |
| 8 | 28/1 | $ 12,387.75 | 5-of-6, Carryover |
| 9 | 11/1 | $ 5,300.78 | 5-of-6, Carryover |
| 10 | 29/1 | $ 8,099.68 | 5-of-6, Carryover |
| 11 | 2/1 | $ 3,591,245.44 | Jackpot |
| 12 | 5/1 | $ 105,295.84 | 6-of-6, Carryover |
As the field loaded into the gate in the 1 1/16 mile $35,000 Maiden Claiming race on the lawn (it's always a Maiden Claimer, isn't it?), the 4-Currency Gain got loose on the turf course and was scratched from the field causing a long delay. Think that added to the pressure if you were holding one of the possible winning tickets?
Once the gate opened, 7-Feline Forum went by the favorite, 11-Green Waters, in deep stretch to take it all down. The 3-Bahia De Oro and the 6-My Pal Ariana made late moves to get into contention (with the 3 also triggering the jackpot payout), but when they hit the wire, Feline Forum completed a six race sequence of double digit payouts.
Below are the results from the full Rainbow 6 sequence. Click on the horse name to go to the PDF chart via DRF.com:
| Leg | Horse | $2 Win |
| 1 | 1-Keyner Veloz | $114.00 |
| 2 | 9-Original Cast | $11.40 |
| 3 | 8-Odalys Halo | $36.80 |
| 4 | 6-Artie's Jasper | $17.20 |
| 5 | 4-May Treasuretrove | $23.60 |
| 6 | 7-Feline Forum | $23.00 |
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