HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Mark Casse dominated the 3-year-old turf races during the 2024-25 Gulfstream Park Championship meet. Thursday, he picked up right where he left off a year ago when Alpyland rallied to a 1 1/2-length victory over the pacesetting Honey Dutch, giving Casse back-to-back victories in the $175,000 Dania Beach Stakes. Casse, who won the 2025 Dania Beach with Mi Bago, ushered in the New Year in a big way with a hat trick on the holiday card. The Hall of Fame trainer was celebrating again just minutes later after his Nerazurri captured the Sports Overnight Stakes at Oaklawn Park. “I thought 2025 was a good year, but right now we’ve gotten off to a great start in 2026 as well,” Casse said by phone from Ocala after registering his back-to-back stakes wins. Alpyland came into the one-mile Dania Beach sporting a modest two-race win streak after opening his career with three consecutive losses. Both those victories came on the grass, the second over the local course, a game neck victory in an entry-level allowance/optional-claiming race in his 2-year-old finale on Dec. 7. :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports are available now.  Alpyland broke well and raced within easy striking distance of the 9-5 Honey Dutch, who sprinted clear right from the start under Irad Ortiz Jr. Honey Dutch cut out a rapid pace, posting an opening half-mile split of 44.79 seconds with jockey John Velazquez rating Alpyland just three lengths behind in the run down the backstretch. Alpyland edged closer to the leader approaching the stretch, stuck his head in front a sixteenth of a mile from the wire before readily edging clear at the end. The winner’s final time of 1:31.89 was just .45 seconds off the course record set on opening day of the inaugural meet of the newly renovated Gulfstream Park by Mr. Light in 2005. Honey Dutch weakened from his early efforts but remained a half-length better than the late running Zeppelin to finish second in a field of nine newly turned 3-year-olds. Alpyland is owned by D J Stable LLC. He paid $9.80. “He’s a big, strong, beautiful colt that we’ve been kind of high on but who is just kind of catching on,” said Casse. “Today was by far his best performance, Johnny [Velazquez] gave him a great trip and he should just keep getting better and better.” Casse said he would look ahead to the upcoming stakes on the turf here this winter when planning Alpyland’s upcoming itinerary. “Gulfstream has a great series for these 3-year-olds on the turf and we’re always thinking of a couple of races in Florida before moving on to Keeneland and Churchill during the spring with these kind of horses,” Casse said. Haute Diva pays big Cash Run Haute Diva showed a new dimension, rallying from last to out-finish Nycon and a tiring Secane to upset the $175,000 Cash Run Stakes as far and away the highest price in a field of six newly turned 3-year-old fillies going a mile on the main track. Haute Diva had registered her only previous win in wire-to-wire fashion over the turf here on Sept. 27. She was over-looked in the wagering for the Cash Run, going postward at 14-1, despite a big effort when beaten a neck as a 7-5 favorite in an entry-level allowance/optional-claiming race on the grass after prompting the pace throughout in her 2-year-old finale. The Cash Run was also basically a first-level allowance race, as none of the six starters had registered more than a single victory prior to the event. Secane was sent postward the even money choice after a one-sided maiden win here on Aug. 15 and a third-place finish in the Tempted Stakes at Aqueduct 11 weeks later. With David Egan aboard, Haute Diva dropped back to last in the run down the backstretch, advancing quickly on the turn to move within easy striking distance while fanning wide into the stretch, and then out-kicked Nycon to win by a neck. The latter, well placed from the outset, rallied just in front of the ultimate winner turning for home, surged late from between horses and just missed. Secane broke alertly and set an uncontested pace, angled off the rail for the stretch run, dug in gamely but succumbed to the top pair in the final yards. Dunmore Beach, Vita Mita, and Jetty’s Home rounded out the complete order of finish. Haute Diva, a daughter of Constitution, is trained by Patrick Biancone for her owner-breeder JSM Equine LLC. She complete the distance on a fast track in 1:39.94 seconds and returned $31.60. “I went to the turf for the two turns because she wants distance and after she ran well we said let’s go to the dirt,” said Biancone. “David knows her and he rode her perfectly. The problem that she had was she was very difficult to saddle and difficult going to the start. She got better gradually by running and learning and she will improve a lot from this start.”  Biancone said he plans to keep Haute Diva on dirt and point for the series of stakes for 3-year-olds later in the meet highlighted by the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks on March 28. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.