HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Dry Powder, who began her career locally a year ago, will return to Gulfstream Park trying to jump start her 4-year-old campaign with a victory in Thursday’s $87,000 main event, an allowance with a $125,000 claiming option going a mile on the main track. Dry Powder was a game maiden special weight winner after contesting the pace making her debut going six furlongs here late last winter. She would go on to be Grade 1-placed twice during the course of the season, her most noteworthy performance coming in the Grade 1 Cotillion last fall at Parx Racing when beaten a neck by the late-running Clicquot after having done all the dirty work dueling for the lead. The Cotillion effort earned Dry Powder a start in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff. But after never factoring in the race, trainer Chad Summers gave his filly a little freshening before bringing her back to launch her 2026 campaign with a third-place finish last month at Laurel Park in the seven-furlong Barbara Fritchie. “I think she needed the last race and she also got caught inside in a three-horse duel with the opening half-mile split faster than the General George later on the card,” Summers said. “I liked the way she’s breezed since returning to Palm Meadows, and this looks like a good spot to hit the refresh button for the rest of the year. :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day.  “She drew inside and the inside is still not where you want to be over this track, but ‘in Irad [Ortiz Jr.] we trust,’ so I’m sure he will be able to create the right trip.” Dry Powder is one of several speed types signed on for the race, along with Grade 2-placed turf specialist Macanga, Velvet Vortex, and Sudden Switch. A lively pace is likely to benefit Her Town, a late-running winner of two of her three career starts, including a relatively well-graded 2 1/4-length triumph over lesser optional-claiming and allowance types going seven furlongs here Jan. 18. Pure Beauty, whose two previous victories both came at one mile, also figures to be a late factor. The stakes-placed New York-bred Midtown Lights rounds out the lineup. Jockey colony grows The local jockey colony has become bigger and stronger over the last couple of weeks with a handful of riders, both old faces and new, signing on for at least the final month of the Championship meet, if not longer. Both Luis Saez and Joel Rosario, who had been riding regularly during the winter at Oaklawn Park, have returned to South Florida and will stay here until moving on to Keeneland early next month. Saez, who cited family reasons for returning to South Florida, is named on six horses on Thursday’s card, including Midtown Lights for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. in the day’s main event. Rosario has been riding here on a part-time basis since the final week of February and has already registered six local victories, including a pair on Sunday’s card. His first Sunday win came aboard the undefeated 3-year-old Sweet Dani Boy for trainer Nicholas Vaccarezza, the second on the Brian Lynch-trained maiden winner Fancy Sailor. Dylan Davis and Romero Maragh both resumed riding here recently after recuperating from injuries suffered in New York during the fall. Davis started back on the Fountain of Youth card. He returned to the winner’s circle for the first time aboard Ditched in last Thursday’s finale. The win was Davis’s first since guiding Fully Subscribed to victory in the Grade 2 Mother Goose on Nov. 8 at Aqueduct. The most recent arrivals are Pietro Moran, the 21-year-old Eclipse Award-winning champion apprentice in 2025, and Diego Herrera, who comes to town off his first Grade 1 win astride British Isles in Saturday’s Big Cap at Santa Anita. :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports are available now.  Herrera had previously ridden British Isles to a fifth-place finish in the Pegasus World Cup Invitational for trainer Richard Baltas and liked what he saw in his first visit to Gulfstream Park. “I’m trying to seek more opportunities to ride and get more experience,” Herrera said. “I went to Gulfstream to ride British Isles and liked the atmosphere. Things can get light out here [California] sometimes. A lot of smaller fields. I liked Gulfstream and I’d like to try it.” Herrera’s local engagements will be handled by veteran agent Kevin Meyocks. One very familiar face in the local jockey colony planning to move on after the Championship meet is Edgard Zayas, currently third in the standings with 42 victories, who will be switching his tack to New York on a permanent basis at the end of the month. Zayas has been the dominant rider here during the spring and summer sessions for many years, with nine riding titles already on his résumé, including both the Royal Palm and Sunshine meets in 2025. “The future here is uncertain and I just felt it was time to move on and try to take my career to the next level,” explained Zayas, who surely caught the attention of New York trainers after winning three races on last year’s Jockey Club Gold Cup card at Saratoga. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.