Florida Sire Stakes Guide Now Available

Our 2017 Sire Stakes final guide for the series is now available to you. It is located at the bottom of this post as a link (in pdf format).

The Guide will give you an edge in understanding the two races Saturday at Gulfstream Park, and - if you are on the premises - a bit of advice on how to handicap the races.

Saturday morning, our editor Jim Freer will offer his handicapping advice for both Sire Stakes races ran at Gulfstream Park on Saturday.

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Horseracing Fla Sire Stakes Guide 9-30-2017

Florida Sire Stakes Guide #3 Available Soon

Horse Racing FLA's Guide #3 to the Florida Sire Stakes will be published late Friday and available to our race fans.

Soutache Wins the Affirmed Sept. 2 (by Lauren King)

Subscribers to our service will receive the Guide in their e-mail box when we publish it. Non-subscribers will need to check back on this blog Horse Racing FLA blog

No later than Saturday morning, our editor Jim Freer will offer his handicapping advice for both Sire Stakes races ran at Gulfstream Park on Saturday.

Only current subscribers will get our the story on the handicapping. So it's best to take a minute and subscribe to our news feeds to take advantage of this and other exciting racing news delivered to your in-box.

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Thanks for reading - see you at the track or on-line soon !

Gulfstream Carryovers for Friday

Gulfstream Park has  a carryover of  $32,940.55 on its Rainbow 6 on Friday.

First post is 2:15 p.m. for a nine-race  card.  The Rainbow 6 is on races four to nine.

On the first race, there is an overnight carryover of $1,611.08 on the Super Hi-5.

 

Gulfstream to Hold Memorial for Kent Stirling on Saturday

A Celebration of Life for Kent Stirling will be held on Saturday, Sept 23 at 11:00 a.m. in the Sport of Kings Theater on the second floor at Gulfstream Park.

Mr. Stirling passed away on Sept. 5, after a long battle with cancer.  He was 72.

Gulfstream to Hold Memorial for Kent Stirling on Saturday

He was executive director of the Florida Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association from 1995 to 2015. He previously was that association’s president, and was a multiple graded stake winning trainer.

In lieu of flowers, Mr. Stirling’s family requests that donations be sent to: FLTRAC (Thoroughbred Aftercare), His Place Ministries (Pembroke Pines), or the Broward Ostomy Association.

Gulfstream Moves Bear’s Den to Sunday

Gulfstream Park has shifted the $100,000 Bear’s  Den Stakes, originally scheduled for this Saturday, to  this Sunday.

It will be Sunday’s third race with scheduled post of  2:17 p.m.

  

The Bear’s Den will be 7 ½ furlongs on turf for Florida-bred 3-year-olds.

Kroy and General McGooby, winners of turf stakes at Gulfstream this summer, are likely favorites in the six-horse field.

The others entered are Major Key, He’s the One, Zipping  and Shiny Copper Penny.

Thursday Carryovers at Gulfstream

Gulfstream Park  has two  carryovers on its Thursday card, which has ten races and first post of 1:15 p.m.

On the first race there is a Super Hi-5 carryover of $13,166.

The Rainbow 6 has a carryover of $24,946. It is on races five to ten. 
Conditions are fast and firm.  The Weather Channel forecast is for a chance  of thunderstorms ranging  from 20 percent to 45 percent during racing hours.

Rainbow 6 Carryover is $16,424

Gulfstream Park will have a Rainbow 6 carryover of $16,424 when it resumes racing on Wednesday.

First post is 1:15 p.m. for a ten-race card. The Rainbow 6 is on races five through ten, with the sequence scheduled to  start at 3:21 p.m.

NOTE: Wednesdays are usually dark at Gulfstream. Gulfstream has added racing this  Wednesday Sept. 20 and on Sunday Oct. 1.  That will make up for some of the handle lost when it cancelled seven race dates due to Hurricane Irma.

On Sunday, there were six tickets  with the winners of  all six Rainbow 6 races.  Each received $3,838.24 on the 20 cent only bet.

The carryover coming in was $6,554.  Bettors added $41,133 to the Rainbow  6 pool.

Per its rules on days with multiple winning tickets, Gulfstream took out 20 percent of  the day’s bet. It then distributed 56 percent among winning tickets and added 24 percent to the carryover.

Gulfstream pays out the Rainbow  6  jackpot  only on days when there is  just one ticket  with the winners  of all six  Rainbow 6  races.

The jackpot consists of the entire carryover plus 80 percent of the day’s wagering on the Rainbow 6.

The Rainbow 6 is a 20-cent per combination-only bet. Multiple horses can be used in each race, thus setting up a ticket with multiple 20 cent combinations.  For example, a ticket with two horses in each race has 64 combinations and costs $12.80.