Mike Welsch

If first impressions mean anything, longtime Southern California mainstays Drayden Van Dyke and Kent Desormeaux may be calling South Florida home before very long.

Gulfstream Park has canceled Saturday’s racing program “out of an abundance of caution” following several days of heavy rain that flooded the local community, including areas of the racetrack property and a portion of the barn area.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Oversubscribed benefitted from a torrid pace duel between her stablemate Chantilly Road and the highly regarded Macanga, finishing best of all down the center of the course to register a popular 3 3/4-length victory over Vino Rouge in Saturday’s $150,000 Wild Applause Stakes at Aqueduct.

After Gabaldon finished second a week ago at Royal Ascot in the Windsor Castle Stakes, winning an allowance race at Gulfstream Park may pale in comparison for trainer Jose D’Angelo. Although if form holds true, that’s exactly what is likely to happen in Thursday’s $61,000 main event, to be decided at a mile and one-sixteenth over the Tapeta course, with D’Angelo sending out the two morning-line favorites, K. C. Chief and Spy Hunter.

Tom Keyser Sibelius wins the Pelican Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs for the second year in a row in February. The Smile will be his first start since the Golden Shaheen in late March.

Comedy Town, a synthetic and turf specialist throughout the first 24 starts of his career, has found a new home on dirt, registering his second win in as many tries over the surface after rallying to a 1 1/4-length victory over Run Classic in Saturday’s $120,000 Smile Sprint at Gulfstream Park.

After completing his juvenile campaign undefeated and virtually untested, and with a sweep of the Florida Sire Series on what is already a very imposing résumé, Rated by Merit is going to get a bit of a rest.

You won't find too many horses campaigning in the United States that can confidently be called a two-mile specialist. But on Saturday at Gulfstream Park, The Grey Wizard figures to go postward a heavy favorite when taking on 10 rivals, including his younger brother The Ginger Wizard, at two miles in the $115,000 H. Allen Jerkens Handicap.

Rocket Can, who qualified for the 2023 Kentucky Derby with a victory in the Grade 3 Holy Bull and second place in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park, showed his affinity for the local surface again on Saturday, rallying to a 1 1/4-length victory over Tumbarumba in the $165,000 Grade 3 Harlan’s Holiday Stakes.

Major Dude earned himself an invitation to and likely a starting berth in the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf on Jan. 25 with a neck victory over the late-charging Fort Washington in Saturday’s $215,000 Ft. Lauderdale Stakes at Gulfstream Park.