$26m Reggae 6 payout and $2m bonus await at Caymanas Park

Millions of dollars in boosted prize money and a Reggae 6 mandatory payout, set to exceed $26 million , will be at stake on Saturday’s 10-race card at Caymanas Park.

Closing the programme, the Reggae Skanking Sweet Trophy, Race 2, Series 3, of the 15-race BGLC-TOBA Millionaires Series has a $2 million BGLC-TOBA bonus added to its $1,050,000, purse, making the seven-furlong event the richest-ever for three-year-old natives in the history of local racing.

Tagged ‘Millionaires’ Row Day’, money-spinning action gets under way early with an 11:30 am post time for the opening event, the first race of the popular Reggae 6 bet, celebrating its fourth anniversary of being a ‘millionaire-maker’.

The Reggae 6 requires bettors to spot respective winners of the first six races on any given day. If there is one winner, a single winning ticket, the minimum guaranteed payout on Saturdays stands at $3.5 million and $3 million on any other day.

If there is one winning ticket when the jackpot starts afresh after a mandatory payout, a lucky punter stands to win either $3.5 million or $3 million, in addition to a $1 million seed, making it a possible $4.5 million up for grabs.

However, should there be more than one winning ticket when the jackpot starts afresh after a mandatory payout, a portion of the pool wagered goes towards the $1 million seed, which grows daily if not caught by a single-winning ticket.

Jackpot carryovers continue if there is no single winner. Periodic mandatory payouts are made, often exceeding $20 million as punters clamour to cash in on holding the single-winning ticket after the day’s sixth race.

Meanwhile, the Reggae Skanking Sweet Trophy pits separate generations of top trainers against each other, 14-time champion Philip Feanny and two-time title-holder Jason DaCosta.

Having not come under the hammer at the 2022 Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association of Jamaica  (TOBA) mixed sale, DaCosta’s HIMAYA and Feanny’s HAPPY FORCE were supplemented for the $2 million bonus after Race 1’s $1 million went abegging.

Gary Subratie’s THE GENERAL, who was withdrawn from the 2022 sale, won Race 1, unsupplemented for eligibility, forcing a carryover to Race 2, hence a bonus of $2m.

Meanwhile, SENSATIONAL MOVE should start favourite for the Harlequin Cup at five furlongs straight in a six-horse field of open-allowance runners.

Hunting his second win in three starts, SENSATIONAL MOVE cruised to an easy victory at the trip five weeks ago dispatching overnight-allowance runners FREEDOM STREET and TAURUS BOY with topweight 126lb in 59.4.