Life of Dave Litfin Celebrated in Gulfstream Winner’s Circle Saturday’s Rainbow 6 Gross Jackpot Pool Guaranteed at $300,000  Sunshine Filly & Mare Turf, Sunshine Sprint Featured HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Calumet Farm’s English Bee kicked off his 7-year-old campaign Friday with a game victory over favored Mouillage in the featured optional claiming allowance on turf carded as Race 7 on Gulfstream Park’s nine-race card.

Tyler Gaffalione Has the Mount on the G1 Florida Derby Hero HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – C2 Racing Stable LLC and La Milagrosa Stable LLC’s White Abarrio breezed five furlongs in 59.24 seconds at Gulfstream Park Friday morning in preparation for a scheduled start in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) presented by Baccarat Jan. 28.

Friday’s Rainbow 6 Gross Jackpot Pool Guaranteed at $250,000 HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Riding Pretty put jockey Paco Lopez in Gulfstream Park’s winner’s circle following Thursday’s Race 6 feature. Lopez made a pretty sharp decision at the top of the stretch by deftly angling Riding Pretty to the rail, where the Holly Crest Farm homebred found herself all by herself as others in the field of 11 3-year-old fillies fought tooth and nail with each other several paths out.

Noble Drama, Octane Top Sunshine Classic Nominations Late Owner Virginia Kraft Payson Enjoyed Florida Success HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Trainer Jorge Delgado enjoyed a magical career milestone when he saddled his first graded-stakes winner on last year’s Preakness Stakes (G1) undercard at Pimlico.

Thursday’s Rainbow 6 Gross Jackpot Pool Guaranteed at $200,000 HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Robert and Lawana Low’s Classy Edition made an impressive return to Gulfstream Park Wednesday, capturing the Race 7 optional claiming allowance feature for fillies and mares with complete authority. Last seen at Gulfstream finishing second behind Kathleen O. in the Davona Dale (G2) last March, the 4-year-old daughter of Classic Empire scored by 5 1/4 lengths while coming off a nine-month layoff since finishing fourth in the Gazelle (G3) at Aqueduct in April.

One-Mile Event One of Two Stakes for Florida-Breds Saturday HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Bass Stables’ Avow, impressive winner of her first two career races nearly a year apart, will return to state-bred company and try turf for the first time looking to regain her winning form in Saturday’s $75,000 Sunshine Filly and Mare Turf at Gulfstream Park. The one-mile Filly & Mare Turf for females 4 and older is the first of two stakes restricted to Florida-bred on an 11-race program followed by the $75,000 Sunshine Sprint for 4-year-olds and up going six furlongs. First race post time is 12:10 p.m.

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Arindel’s Gatsby is back to defend his title in Saturday’s $75,000 Sunshine Sprint at Gulfstream Park, where one of his six rivals will be a stablemate, Michelle and Lawrence Sargent’s Legal Deal. “We ran them in the same race last year. Gatsby won and Legal Deal ran somewhere in the middle of the field. He needed some time off,” trainer Carlos David said.

Four Newcomers Among Top 12 for G3 Pegasus Filly & Mare Turf HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Grade 1 winners In Love and Lady Speightspeare, and Atone, fourth by less than two lengths last winter, were among four horses elevated from reserves to the main invitation list for the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1) Saturday, Jan. 28 at Gulfstream Park. Wednesday was the second of three invitation lists for Pegasus World Cup Day, a program featuring eight stakes, seven graded, worth $5.3 million in purse earnings including the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) presented by Baccarat and $500,000 Pegasus Filly & Mare Turf Invitational (G1).

Cyberknife, Defunded, Proxy Still on Target for Jan. 28 HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Prominent Grade 1 stakes winners Gold Square LLC’s Cyberknife, Karl Watson, Michael Pegram and Paul Weitman’s Defunded and Godolphin LLC’s Proxy are prominent on the second invitation list released Wednesday for the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) Jan. 28 at Gulfstream Park. There are no changes from the first invitation list for the 7th running of the 1 1/8-mile stakes for older horses that will headline a program with seven graded-stakes, including the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational (G1), a 1 1/8-mile turf stakes for older horses, and the $500,000 Pegasus World Cup Filly & Mare Turf Invitational (G3), a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for older fillies and mares.