HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Carlos Martin is hoping Glorious Boy can earn his second straight stakes win and that he can do so in a lot less dramatic fashion when facing nine other 3-year-olds Thursday at Gulfstream Park in the $175,000 Dania Beach. The one-mile Dania Beach is the second of two 3-year-old stakes on the 10-race holiday card that also features the $175,000 Cash Run for 3-year-old fillies going a mile over the main track. Glorious Boy finished in a dead heat for first with Bronze Bullet when making his local debut in the Pulpit Stakes here Nov. 28. But following a long deliberation, he was ultimately awarded the victory outright after the stewards disqualified Bronze Bullet for lugging in and causing interference in deep stretch. Glorious Boy will return to the grass Thursday after having won the Pulpit in his first start over the synthetic Tapeta course and registering a career-best 76 Beyer Speed Figure. The steadily improving son of Independence Hall has already raced twice on turf, winning a maiden-claiming race and finishing second in the Awad Stakes at Aqueduct prior to shipping south for the winter. “I’m excited about running him Thursday,” Martin said. “He’s been training lights out on the Tapeta since the Pulpit, and it looks like he keeps getting better and better. Hopefully, that all translates back to the grass for this race. And I’m confident it should since I always thought turf would be his best surface anyway.” As for Glorious Boy getting his first stakes win the hard way, Martin admitted he would have been more than satisfied even if he had to settle for a dead heat in the Pulpit. :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports are available now.  “Watching the race, I wasn’t sure if the other horse had done enough to come down,” Martin recalled. “But after watching the head-on a couple of times, I thought we had a pretty good chance and naturally was glad when the stewards made the call. A dead heat would have been fine, although it’s certainly a lot nicer to win it all.” Glorious Boy, who will ridden again by Rajiv Maragh in the Dania Beach, is the lone stakes winner in a lineup that does includes the multiple stakes-placed pair of A Million Dreams, who finished third in the Pulpit, and Squire. Honey Dutch, who closed his 2-year-old campaign finishing a close third after setting the pace until deep stretch in the Central Park on turf at Aqueduct, also figures to be a major player over what has been a speed-favoring course since the meet opened four weeks ago. Trainer Mark Casse, who sent out Mi Bago to a popular, wire-to-wire victory in the 2025 Dania Beach, will look to defend that title when saddling the duo of Alpyland and Truman’s Commander, both of whom enter the race off victories in their 2-year-old finales. Alpyland stretched out to a mile for the first time to register a game neck decision over Knoty Knicks here Dec. 7 while Truman’s Commander led throughout to capture a similarly conditioned event going the same distance at Tampa Bay Downs. Cash Run Stakes Trainer Whit Beckman will send out Honey Dutch in the Dania Beach and also has one of the key contenders in the Cash Run, Nycon, who makes her local debut off a 4 3/4-length maiden special weight win going a mile over a muddy track Nov. 19 at Churchill Downs. She is one of three last-out maiden winners in the lineup along with Dunmore Beach and Jetty’s Home. Jetty’s Home is trained by Saffie Joseph Jr., whose lightly raced Secane looms the favorite and horse to beat off a third-place finish in the Tempted Stakes at Aqueduct when closing her abbreviated 2-year-old campaign on Nov. 6. Secane had won her only previous start in sensational fashion, cruising to a 7 3/4-length maiden win going seven furlongs while earning a field-best 75 Beyer Speed Figure launching her career here in mid-August. The versatile and multiple stakes-placed Vita Mia returns to a more suitable spot after being overmatched in the Grade 2 Golden Rod at Churchill Downs in her final try at 2. She also figures to attract plenty of mutuel support, along with Blazing Brat, who outran her 24-1 odds finishing second behind the 7-5 favorite Sneaky Good in the six-furlong Sandpiper last month at Tampa Bay. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.