Candy Light rallies for win in $100,000 Tropical Park Oaks HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – While it wasn’t the Kentucky Derby his connections dreamed about earlier in the year, it was a Derby, nonetheless – the last Derby of 2022. Golden Glider made it a winning one, prevailing by a nose over Steady On in a four-horse photo finish that highlighted the opening day card of Gulfstream Park’s Championship Meet.

Belgrano Pulls Off Upset in Janus Co-Feature HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The plan for Miss J McKay going into Saturday’s $100,000 Abundantia at Gulfstream Park: Give the multiple-stakes winning mare an opportunity to defend her title in the five-furlong turf sprint for fillies and mares during a winter campaign before sending her off to the breeding shed. “The original plan was to run her this winter and put her in foal, but after the way she won today, I think everything is up in the air,” said Miguel Clement, trainer and part-owner Christophe Clement’s son and assistant trainer. “I’m sure my father and his partners will think about that afterwards.”

Barbados Native Credits Owners for Career Accomplishment HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. followed up Top 10 finishes in the 2021 national standings in both races-won and purse earnings with a breakthrough 2021-2022 Championship Meet at Gulfstream Park, during which he dethroned perennial titlist Todd Pletcher with a meet-leading 58 wins. To finish off his career-best achievement in style, Joseph saddled White Abarrio for a victory in the $1 million Curlin Florida Derby (G1).

2023 Gulfstream Park Calendar Giveaway on Opening Day Maiden, Allowance Purses Receive Sizeable Purse Increases Tropical Park Derby, Oaks Kickoff $13.6M Stakes Schedule G1 Pegasus World Cup, G1 Florida Derby Top 60 Stakes HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – The 2022-2023 Championship Meet at Gulfstream Park will get underway Monday, the first of 71 days of World Class Racing that will be highlighted by the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1), $1 million Curlin Florida Derby (G1), and $400,000 Fountain of Youth (G2) on the three most prestigious racing days during the elite winter meet.

Make a Memorable Experience with a Donation to Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Beginning Dec. 26 – Opening Day of Gulfstream Park’s Championship Meet – fans will be able to meet and watch track announcer Pete Aiello call a race from high above the track while helping to retrain, rehome and retire Thoroughbreds. For a $50 donation per person, up to six fans can watch the popular Aiello call a race from the announcer’s booth and get a view of South Florida all the way to the ocean.

Defending Champion Rider Dethroned Irad Ortiz Jr. Last Winter HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Having regained his top spot at one of the most prestigious and competitive racing meets in the country, jockey Luis Saez is back in South Florida with sights set on a fourth Championship Meet title at Gulfstream Park. The 71-day Championship Meet kicks off Monday, Dec. 26 and runs through Sunday, April 2, 2023. Two $100,000 turf stakes highlight the opening day program – the Tropical Park Derby for 3-year-olds and Tropical Park Oaks for 3-year-old fillies.

Endorsed Returns to Winner’s Circle, Expressman in Friday Feature HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Pegasus World Cup (G1) hopefuls Simplification, O’Connor, Skippylongstocking and Super Corinto are four of the 17 horses nominated for the $150,000 Harlan’s Holiday (G3), to be run Dec. 31, while Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1) two-time defending champion Colonel Liam is one of 29 nominations for the Fort Lauderdale (G2), also contested on New Year’s Eve.

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey will have two chances in Monday’s $100,000 Tropical Park Oaks at Gulfstream Park to get off to a fast start for the 2022-2023 Championship Meet on the Opening Day program. McGaughey is scheduled to send out a pair of highly promising fillies in Allen Stable Inc.’s Personal Best and Phipps Stable’s Surprisingly, in the 1 1/16-mile stakes for 3-year-old fillies on turf that will co-headline Monday’s 10-race program with the $100,000 Tropical Park Derby, a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for 3-year-olds.

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Edward Seltzer and Beverly Anderson’s Axthelm, who debuted at Gulfstream before making his next three starts in Kentucky, has returned for the South Florida’s racetrack’s opening day of the 2022-2023 Championship Meet Monday. The 3-year-old son of Into Mischief is scheduled to face 11 other 3-year-olds in the $100,000 Tropical Park Derby, a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes that will co-headline a 10-race program with the $100,000 Tropical Park Oaks, a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for 3-year-old fillies.