HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Bobby Dibona said one of the fondest memories of his late mother came on an Easter Sunday many years ago – a winner’s circle picture that he still cherishes to this day. “The horse actually had some heat issues after the race. We had to keep him moving and under a hose the whole time,” Dibona recalled. “He turned out to be fine although he never actually made it into the winner’s circle himself. But the picture we took with myself, my mom, and the owner that day is one I’ll always treasure.” Dibona is hoping to add to his Easter racetrack memorabilia Sunday at Gulfstream Park when he sends out Con Compania as one of the key contenders in the main event on a 10-race holiday card. A field of seven is set for race 9, a $71,000 allowance/high-priced optional-claiming dash to be decided at six furlongs over the main track. :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports are available now.  Con Compania is one of three members of the field exiting the Gulfstream Park Sprint on Feb. 21, along with Rolando and Great Navigator. In that race, Con Compania finished fourth after making a bold mid-race run outside of rivals around the turn before flattening out to finish fourth, 6 1/2 lengths behind upset winner Jack’s Promise. Damon’s Mound, who finished second, came back to flatter the event by capturing a Florida-bred sprint stakes last weekend at Tampa Bay Downs. Con Compania was purchased privately by a group headed by Michael Iavarone and turned over to Dibona following a wire-to-wire victory in a one-mile overnight handicap here on Oct. 18. He finished a tiring sixth in the Grade 3 Harlan’s Holiday going 1 1/16 miles in his 2025 finale, his only other start for his current connections. “The first race for us was just too long. He ran well but really can’t go that far,” said Dibona. “His last start, the field was kind of salty but I thought he ran well. He kind of got shut off a little at the sixteenth pole as well. This race will give him some class relief and I’ve got my old go-to rider, Paco [Lopez], on him. We’ve won so many races together over the years. I always have extra confidence when he’s on one of my horses.” Rolando comes off a superb 3-year-old campaign during which he won three of eight starts and has over $244,000 in earnings. He finished a game third after contesting the early pace with a pair of rivals in the Gulfstream Park Sprint that included the winner. Trained by Fausto Gutierrez, Rolando has won three times, while never finishing worse than third, in seven starts over the local strip. Great Navigator finished sixth in the Gulfstream Park Sprint while racing on deeper going at the rail. He could prove a bit of a sleeper Sunday in a race that should feature a lively pace scenario. In his only other start this winter, Great Navigator finished a distant fourth behind the odds-on Knightsbridge in the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector. The 9-year-old Mish brings a modest two-race winning streak into the headliner but against much lesser competition than he will face Sunday. The veteran is another horse for the course, having registered 10 victories in 23 previous starts over this track and figures to be an early pace factor along with Beach Colt, returning off an eighth-place finish in the Pelican Stakes earlier this winter at Tampa. Plans for Dibona Dibona is currently weighing his options moving forward this spring, although he will base locally, as usual, during the Royal Palm meet. He currently has 18 horses on the grounds, a group that includes the Grade 2 winner Steal Sunshine, and vastly improved Back Em Up, runner-up in both the Grade 3 Fred Hooper and Army Mule Stakes during the Championship Meet. “I have some nice Kentucky-breds and the money is pretty strong out there right now,” said Dibona. “We claimed both Back Em Up and Wistucky, who just won impressively for us as well, for $25,000, which makes them both eligible for starter races. They also have their second-level allowance conditions left. too. So we might try to pick out a few spots up there that they would fit nicely.” Lopez back to work Paco Lopez wasted little time making his presence felt since returning locally for the spring, winning the first race of the Royal Palm meet and a pair overall on Thursday’s card. Lopez, who recently ended a 60-day suspension that barred him from riding at all HISA tracks, won 24 races during the opening months of the 2025 Royal Palm meet before switching his tack to Monmouth for the summer. He is now just four wins shy of his 4,400th career victory. Samy Camacho has also re-joined the local riding colony for the meet and also wasted little time visiting the winner’s circle, registering a front-running victory for trainer Lisa Lewis aboard Start in Thursday’s sixth race. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.