The $75,000 Proud Man will headline Saturday's 12-race program at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., where the mile turf stakes for 2-year-olds will also be the highlight of a challenging 20-cent Rainbow 6 six-race sequence.
Saturday's Rainbow 6 jackpot pool will be guaranteed at $400,000. The popular multi-race wager's sequence will span Races 7-12 on a program that will feature full fields (136 entries) and six turf races.
The Proud Man drew a field of 10 lightly raced juveniles, including a pair of main-track-only entrants), with no obvious 'single.' C My Meister, who won his turf debut while making his third career start for trainer Kelsey Danner, is the 3-1 morning-line favorite, followed by Jena Antonucci-trained Winging It, a son of Into Mischief who was valiant in defeat in his recent off-the-turf debut, at 4-1. Rory Miller-trained Fulton Street, a son of First Dude rated at 5-1, could well be a sleeper looking to his recent maiden score in his turf debut. Third-place finisher Into Touring came right back to break his maiden at Del Mar for trainer Mark Casse.
The first six races on Saturday's card figure to be just as challenging as the last six races, offering four races with full fields of 12 and three turf races for early Pick 5 and Pick 4 bettors.
Leon McKanas-trained T Ville, a son of Vancouver who was nominated to the Proud Man after finishing a troubled third in his recent debut, will seek to graduate in Race 3, a maiden special weight race at a mile on turf that also attracted Juan Alvarado-trained Globes, whose dam Pink Poppy was a multiple stakes winner over Gulfstream's turf course. Sons of Maclean's Music, Bernardini and Nyquist (two) are scheduled to make their respective debuts in the race.
Mark Casse-trained Rufa Red Knot, who finished third in her career debut in the Florida Sire Stakes Desert Vixen, is expected to receive a lot of attention from handicappers in Race 6, a seven-furlong maiden special weight race for Florida-bred juvenile fillies. The daughter of Noble Bird broke last from her rail post position and rushed up to set the pace before tiring late in the six-furlong Desert Vixen.
Saturday's first-race post time is set for 12:20 p.m.
Four-Day Race Week Begins Thursday Sept. 9
Gulfstream Park will go to a four-day race week beginning Thursday, Sept. 9.
Gulfstream went to a three-day week June 7 when work started on the construction of a Tapeta surface on the outer section of its turf course. The Tapeta course is expected to be completed in September.
Gulfstream's schedule the weekend of Aug. 27-29 will include the second leg of the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes featuring the $200,000 Affirmed and $200,000 Susan's Girl.
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