Kat Kubik
and Bob Hill
Staff writers
Tracksideview.com

Race 10 – Gulfstream – Sunshine Millions Classic, 1 1/8 on Dirt for 4-year-olds and up – Florida breds – post time: 5:25 p.m. EST

The 2012 Sunshine Millions Classic has turned out to be quite a competitive race with four graded stakes winners in the field.  The best of these could be Mucho Macho Man (6), who was one of our best and most consistent three-year-olds, with the highlight…

Rick Francis
Staff writer
Tracksideview.com

We’ll end the work week where we began it, at Gulfstream Park. Friday’s fourth on the card is a 100k optional-claiming contest that features a pair of graded stakes winners, who look to continue their current winning ways. A field of six will battle for their share of a 64k purse, and do so over the one-turn one mile main track route. It should be an exciting race, so let’s get started.

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Rick Francis
Staff writer
Tracksideview.com

For our Thursday selection, we’ll stay with three-year-olds in the optional-claiming ranks and once again on the turf, but this time at Santa Anita and on the famous downhill course. There’s a tempting purse of 58k on the line for this field of seven, let’s see who gets the winners share.

Race 4 – Santa Anita – post time: 5:34 p.m. EST

TENACIOUS THOMAS (1), since breaking his maiden last out over Hollywood’s…

Rick Francis
Staff writer
Tracksideview.com

Given weather issues throughout most of the country, we’ll head south to Florida for Gulfstream’s 9th and feature, an optional claiming turf contest for three-year-olds. A field of ten is scheduled to start in this one mile test, and they’ll be running for their share of a 53k purse. Let’s get started.

Race 9 – Gulfstream Park – post time: 4:33 p.m. EST

GOLD MEGILLAH (1), in a maiden start last September, he…

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Rick Francis
Staff writer
Tracksideview.com

We end the weekend on the West Coast with the running of Santa Anita’s La Canada Stakes. This Grade 2 contest is for four-year-old fillies, and for some they will be trying the mile-and-a-sixteenth distance for the first time. Graded stakes affairs are always competitive, and this one shouldn’t disappoint. Let’s get started.

Race 8 – Santa Anita – post time: 7:07 p.m. EST

MAY DAY ROSE (1), in her last two starts,…

Kat Kubik
and Bob Hill
Staff writers
Tracksideview.com

Race 10 – Gulfstream Park – Kitten’s Joy – 1 1/16 on Turf for Three-Year-Olds – post time: 4:45 p.m. EST

Kitten’s Joy has two colts trying to earn their first stake win in the race named after him, Empire Builder (7) and Scorcher (8). Of the two, the former has the best chance after taking an allowance on the grass at Calder. He should move forward off of…

Rick Francis
Staff writer
Tracksideview.com

Before we head to a weekend of stakes contests from around the country, we’ll end the work week at Gulfstream, where four-year-old fillies and mares will sprint six and a half furlongs on the main track for their share of a 60k purse. It’s the third race on the card, and has an early post time of 1:34 EST. Let’s get started.

Race 3 – Gulfstream Park – post time: 1:34 p.m. EST…

Rick Francis
Staff writer
Tracksideview.com

We’ll stay one more day at Fair Grounds, this time it’ll be the seventh on the card, an optional-claiming contest for four-year-olds and up running a mile and seventy yards on the main track. A field of seven is scheduled to go to post, and with a purse of 51k on the line, expect an all-out effort. Let’s get started.

Race 7 – Fair Grounds – post time: 3:43 p.m. CST

INFRATTINI (1),…

Rick Francis
Staff writer
Tracksideview.com

Wednesday once again has us at Fair Grounds, this time the ninth and feature, an optional-claiming turf contest for three-year-old Louisiana-breds, and with a pair of also eligible’s standing by, it promises to be a full starting gate. Let’s get started.

Race 9 – Fair Grounds – post time: 4:43 p.m. CST

IRISH CONFIDANT (1) has failed to threaten in three Fair Grounds starts, both on dirt and turf, and won’t again today.…