La Rinconada 5y6 Schedule: What Time and How to Watch

Schedule: what time is the La Rinconada 5y6 this week

Update (2026-11-12): The main race of the weekend, the Clásico Ciudad de Caracas, runs on Sunday, November 15, at 4:35 p.m. US Eastern. That is 5:35 p.m. at Hipódromo La Rinconada in Caracas, as race 10 of Sunday's card. It is 3:35 p.m. in Mexico City, 4:35 p.m. in Bogotá and Lima, 6:35 p.m. in Buenos Aires and 10:35 p.m. in Madrid, all on the same Sunday.

Rechecked on November 12: the 5:35 p.m. post time and the nine entries stand, and we found no post positions or scratches published for the fillies' race. Two scratches have been announced for Saturday's card (see below).

The La Rinconada 5y6 schedule is different this week. The track races on both days, and there is a 5y6 on each: an extra game on Saturday, November 14, from race 4, and, as Líder en Deportes reports, the usual Sunday game from race 7.

The times below are Caracas local time, as reported by Meridiano and Líder en Deportes. Sunday's race 7 time comes from the race card published by El Gran Datero.

Saturday, November 14 (meeting 45, 9 races)

• First race: 3:30 p.m.
• Race 4, first leg of the 5y6 Nacional: 5:05 p.m.
• Race 7, Clásico Antonio José de Sucre (Grade I): 6:35 p.m.

Sunday, November 15 (meeting 46, 12 races)

• First race: 1:00 p.m.
• Race 7, first leg of Sunday's 5y6, as reported by Líder en Deportes: 4:05 p.m. on El Gran Datero's card
• Race 10, Clásico Ciudad de Caracas (Grade I): 5:35 p.m.

The INH made the weekend programme official on Tuesday, November 10, Meridiano reports, and race cards such as El Gran Datero's already carry a post time for each race. We list here the ones we checked.

How to watch the La Rinconada 5y6

The regular Sunday outlet is Club Hípico on La Tele Tuya. The channel's own programme page says it carries the classics run at La Rinconada and all the válidas, and lists the show on Sundays at 1:00 p.m.

That page does not mention Saturday's extra card, and no report we opened names a channel or stream for it. The Instituto Nacional de Hipódromos (INH), which runs the track, posts its news on its own official channels, so look there on Saturday.

The six 5y6 races this week

The 5y6 Nacional covers the last six races of a card, the válidas. On Saturday it starts at race 4 of a nine-race programme, so the six legs are races 4 to 9.

Meridiano and Líder give the times of races 4 and 7; the other four are from the card published by El Gran Datero, which matches the papers on the times they share. Race 4 is a 1,300-metre race for horses aged seven and up that have won three or four races (claiming races in Venezuela do not count, Meridiano says). Ten were entered, and nine remain: on November 11 Meridiano reported, citing the INH's social media, that Dumpling (number 6) had been scratched. Meridiano picks Brother Will as its possible banker there.

Is there a 5y6 on Sunday too? Yes, according to Líder en Deportes (November 11), which writes of a double 5y6 weekend, with the traditional Sunday game starting at race 7. Meridiano's reports only give the starting race of Saturday's game; they do not say which race opens Sunday's. On a 12-race card that makes Sunday's legs races 7 to 12, and the Clásico Ciudad de Caracas, race 10, the fourth of them.

Sunday's main race: Clásico Ciudad de Caracas

This is the 77th running, a Grade I over 1,400 metres for Venezuelan-bred two-year-old fillies. Meridiano reports a purse of 195,000 dollars shared among the placed fillies.

Nine fillies are entered, according to the INH list reported by Meridiano on November 10. The two jockeys shown are the ones Líder en Deportes named on November 12, and the spelling of Cossetta follows the INH (Meridiano writes Cosetta):

• Blue Ribbon (jockey Jhonatan Aray; presented by Humberto Correia Jr.)
• Forever Queen
• Aitana Princess (jockey Jaime Lugo)
• Valeskita
• Aura Romana
• Cossetta
• Queen Aurora
• La Warao
• Fortuna Suprema

These are entries, not a final field: scratches can still come. No post positions for this race appeared in the reports we opened.

What to watch

• The rematch. Blue Ribbon won her only start by more than two lengths, with Forever Queen second. Líder en Deportes names Blue Ribbon among the favourites and expects her to sit mid-field and attack late.
• Aitana Princess. She was third in both of her starts, and Líder says she looks well recovered in training.
• Jaime Lugo's chase. Aitana Princess's jockey leads the 2026 standings and, by Líder's count on November 11, had 2,485 wins in Venezuela, closing on the career total left by Juan Vicente Tovar, which that report gives as 2,492. Passing Tovar would make him second on Venezuela's all-time list; an earlier Líder report puts Emisael Jaramillo first, with more than 3,000.
• The distance. At two, 1,400 metres is a real test. Our guide to two-year-old racehorses explains why.

Saturday's main race: Clásico Antonio José de Sucre

The colts go first. The 75th Clásico Antonio José de Sucre is a Grade I over 1,400 metres on the dirt for two-year-olds, with nine colts entered. It is race 7 on Saturday at 6:35 p.m. Caracas time, and the fourth leg of the 5y6.

The field as published by Meridiano on November 10, with programme numbers and jockeys:

Meridiano's list does not print a number for Kilimanjaro (trainer Germán Rojas); his number 3 is from the card published by El Gran Datero. These are programme numbers, not starting-gate positions, which we could not confirm for this race.

Both papers bill it as Kilimanjaro against Carbonero. Kilimanjaro won the Clásico Victoreado over 1,200 metres, by seven lengths according to Líder. Carbonero won the Clásico Día del Veterinario on October 25 on his debut, for trainer Jefferson Rivas.

Both step up in distance on Saturday, Meridiano notes.

The papers differ on one point: Líder's November 11 report speaks of fillies in the Sucre, while Meridiano and Líder's own November 12 preview give nine colts, as the published field shows.

What the 5y6 is and how race week works

The 5y6 Nacional is Venezuela's best-known racing game, and Meridiano calls it the track's main one. Players pick the winner of each of six set races; the name comes from the two prize levels, five correct or all six.

That is why fans care about which races are the válidas and when the first of them goes. A weekend with two cards and two games, like this one, means two sets of legs and two starting times to keep track of.

A normal week at La Rinconada looks like this:

1. Early in the week: the INH publishes the entries for each meeting.
2. Midweek: the papers publish their lines and the first scratches appear.
3. Race day: final scratches, jockey changes and the official order of each race.

The track, in the Coche district of Caracas, also hosts the country's biggest race, the Clásico Simón Bolívar. If the grades are new to you, start with what a Grade 1 race is.

What to check before race day

• The scratches. They have started. On November 11 Meridiano reported the first two for Saturday, citing the INH's social media: My Flirting Mate (number 6, race 2) and Dumpling (number 6, race 4). The INH's Telegram channel carries a scratches update for meeting 45; we saw none yet for Sunday's meeting 46. Check again on race day.
• Sunday's 5y6. Líder en Deportes reports it from race 7; check the INH's official programme for the legs.
• The post times. The times on this page are the ones we checked. The official programme is out, and published race cards list a time for every race.
• The broadcast. Club Hípico on La Tele Tuya is listed for Sundays at 1:00 p.m. Saturday's coverage is not confirmed.

We refresh this same page every week with the new programme, and with results once they are official.

Past weeks' results

Sunday, November 8, 2026 (13 races). All About You, a US-bred import, won the fourth leg of the 5y6, which was race 11 of the card, over 1,200 metres, for jockey Jaime Lugo and trainer Riccardo D'Angelo (Líder en Deportes, November 11; Meridiano's results of November 8). The win put Lugo top of the jockeys' standings with 39.

Meridiano published the full results of that card; we list only the winner we checked in more than one source.