Gulfstream's Easter Sunday Program to Begin at Noon

Gulfstream Park's 12-race Sunday program, featuring three maiden special weight events and five races on the turf, will have a special first-race post of 1 p.m.

Gulfstream also announced two $75,000 stakes that will be run April 25 and May 9.

The $75,000 Unbridled Stakes, for 3-year-olds, will be run Saturday, April 25 at 1 1/16 miles on the main track while the $75,000 Sunshine Forever, for 4-year-olds and up, will be run Saturday, May 9 at 1 1/16 miles on the turf.

Sunday's program will feature three maiden special weight events in races 3, 4 and 6 and five turf events.

Races 4 and 6, maiden events for fillies and mares, have both attracted strong, competitive fields of nine.

Race 4, at six furlongs, has attracted Michael Tabor's The Girl Herself, a first-time starter and 3-year-old daughter of American Pharoah, as well as Nikki and Papa, a 3-year-old by Mineshaft who finished third in the Forward Gal (G3) in her debut and eighth in the Davona Dale (G2) in her last start.

Others entered include Snicket, a first-time starter from the Christophe Clement barn who brought $400,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales 2-year-old auction; Saratoga Affair, a $450,000 daughter of Paynter trained by Chad Brown; Courtlandt Farm's Sixth Street, a $525,000 daughter of Tapit who finished second her only start Aug. 30 at Saratoga for trainer Mark Hennig; and Bernie's Mistress, the only 4-year-old in the field coming out of a third-place finish at Gulfstream March 13.

Race 6, contested at a mile, includes Shadwell Stable's 3-year-old Prairie Wings, an $800,000 daughter of Tapit who finished second her debut Feb. 9 at Gulfstream. The filly has since been transferred to trainer Todd Pletcher.

Chad Brown will send out two in Race 6. Primacy, a $240,000 daughter of Union Rags, comes into the race off a fast-closing, second-place finish at 6 1/2 furlongs Feb. 23 at Gulfstream, while Risk Model, a $390,000 daughter of Into Mischief, enters off a third-place finish at the distance here Feb. 23.

Race 3, a six furlong maiden special weight event for Florida-breds 3 and up, drew a field of seven led by Live Oak Plantation's Victory Town, a son of Speightstown trained by Mark Casse, and Shadybrook Farm Inc.'s Whiskey Sunrise, who makes his first start in a year after finishing a game second in his debut.