Dream Dancing Wins Here Comes the Bride Stakes at G.P.

Dream Dancing (9:2 ML) ruled in the first stakes race of the day at Gulfstream Park under a wind-swept turf course. The purse was $100,000.


Coasted (8:5) garnered the Place position, while Party Boat (6:1) got the show.

Mark Casse trained the winner, rode by Julien Leparoux, who is 157-21-29-14 in stats thus far.

Gulfstream Park - Race 4
#	Win	Place	Show
1	$5.60	$2.60	$2.20
4	.	$2.60	$2.20
6	.	.	$2.80

Eastport Nips Donwell at the Wire in Race 3

Eastport nipped Donwell at the wire  in a photo finish in race 3 at Gulfstream Park today under partly cloudy skies.

Esastport was the race favorite at 3:1 ML odds. This was the last race before the afternoon heats up with 7 stakes races ahead.

Jose Ortiz was the rider for trainer Claude McGaughey III.

So stay tuned to our blog for all the day's racing action from Gulfsream Park.

Gulfstream Park - Race 3
#	Win	Place	Show
8	$6.20	$3.80	$2.60
5	.	$13.80	$6.00
1	.	.	$3.00

Florida Weekend Racing Schedule

Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach has an 11-race card on Friday with first  post of 12:35 p.m.

The dirt track is listed as fast and the turf is listed as firm.  The Weather Channel forecast is for a  20 percent  chance of rain during racing hours.

Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar has a ten-race card with first post of 12:44 p.m.

The dirt track is listed as fast and the turf is listed as firm. The Weather Channel forecast is for a zero percent of rain during racing hours.

Saturday

Gulfstream will have thirteen races with first post of 12:00 p.m.

The card will have the $400,000 Fountain of Youth (Grade 2) at 1 1/16 miles on dirt for 3-year-olds and eight other stakes races.

Tampa Bay will have ten races with first post of 12:42 p.m.

Sunday

Gulfstream will have 13 races with first post of 12:00 p.m.  None of the day’s races are stakes.

Tampa Bay will have ten races with first post of 12:42 p.m.

The Oldsmar track’s next stakes races will be on Saturday March 11.  It will have five stakes, including the $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby (Grade 2) at 1 1/16 miles on dirt for 3-year-olds.

Gulfstream Rainbow 6 Carryover at $109,732

Gulfstream Park will have a Rainbow 6 carryover of $109,732 on Friday.

First post is 12:35 p.m. for the 11-race card. The Rainbow 6 is on races six to eleven.

On Thursday, there were 89 tickets with the winners of all six Rainbow 6 races. Each ticket received $711.88 on a 20 cent bet.

Thursday was the fourth straight race day without the jackpot payoff  requirement (full carryover plus 80 percent of the day’s pool) of just one ticket with all six  winners.

The carryover coming in was $79,451.

Bettors added $126,217 to the Rainbow 6 pool. Of that, Gulfstream took out 20 percent. It then divided 56 percent among the tickets with six winners and put 24 percent into the carryover.

There was a single Rainbow 6 winning ticket last Thursday. It paid $324,180.

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.

--Jim Freer