HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Sprint stakes on the grass are few and far between, especially for fillies and mares, so it came as a bit of a surprise when only 10 signed on for Sunday’s $75,000 Ladies Turf Sprint at Gulfstream Park. Madame Giry and Bounding Bi are far and away the two most accomplished members of the wide-open field. Madame Giry has banked all but $2,330 of her $436,434 lifetime earnings on the grass, more than half of which came in turf sprints. Bounding Bi is the more versatile of the pair and has won four times and earned more than $267,000 in grass races carded at five and 5 1/2 furlongs. [Clocker Reports: Get Mike Welsch’s clocker reports from Gulfstream Park and Palm Meadows] Madame Giry, who does her best running from off the pace, will need to negotiate a clean trip breaking from the rail in the five-furlong race while being reunited with jockey Eddie Castro on Sunday. Madame Giry won a pair of turf stakes last summer, at Saratoga and Laurel, but fell short with her final surge when returning locally to close out her 2013 campaign under allowance conditions here Dec. 27. Trainer Cam Gambolati sent Madame Giry up to Tampa Bay Downs, where she dropped to the rear of the 12-horse field and fell well short with a belated rally as the 9-5 favorite in the Lightning City Stakes. Trainer Ronny Werner has shipped the well-traveled Bounding Bi around looking for opportunities for his turf-sprint specialist. The Ladies Turf Sprint will mark Bounding Bi’s third start at three different tracks already this season. She is coming off a fourth-place finish against males at Sam Houston after finishing ninth three weeks earlier in the Pan Zareta at her winter base, Fair Grounds. A lively pace is expected, as is normally the case in turf sprints, with Bounding Bi, the red-hot Runway Ready and Cor Cor in the lineup. Runaway Ready has won each of her last two starts, those victories coming nearly eight months apart. The most recent triumph was a wire-to-wire, five-length decision over $50,000 starter-allowance opposition here Jan. 19. Runway Ready is trained by Gary Contessa and will be ridden again Sunday by Julien Leparoux. “She’s trained brilliantly,” Contessa said. “She had a chip in her ankle, probably about mid-year last year. We took the chip out and she has come back fantastic. She gets the acid test on Sunday. But if you’re going to try to beat me to the lead you’re going to have a fast horse.” Near track record on dirt for My Happy Way Trainer Joe Orseno would love to get Happy My Way back on the turf. But the way the vastly improved Happy My Way has been running over the main track here this winter, the switch in surfaces will have to wait. Happy My Way won for the second time in his last three starts since returning to south Florida for the season, both wins coming on the dirt, when registering a three-quarter-length decision over a game Dad’z Laugh in Thursday’s feature. Happy My Way’s final time of 1:08.26 was just .14 of a second off the six-furlong course record and earned him a career-best 102 Beyer Speed Figure. “He likes this track. He really does,” Orseno said. “And I still say he’s better turf horse. But he likes this track, so we’ll just stay with this and continue to do what’s working right now. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Candy Kitty eyes Herecomesthebridestakes Candy Kitty, a two-time stakes winner at Gulfstream this winter, will go for her third straight next Sunday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Herecomesthebride Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles on turf, Pletcher said. Candy Kitty won the Ginger Brew Stakes on turf last time out Jan. 5 after taking the Wait a While, which was rained off the turf Nov. 30. “She seems like a versatile filly who can handle either surface,” Pletcher said. “She’s not one that you have to worry about if it rains and it comes off the turf.” Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said he likely would run Macaroon in the Herecomesthebride. Macaroon would be going for her third straight win, having prevailed against maidens and in allowance company in her last two starts. Trainer Bill Mott said he plans to run America, who has not raced since finishing fifth in the Demoiselle on Nov. 30 at Aqueduct, and “wouldn’t rule out” also starting Market Magic, third to stablemate Miss Besilu in a Gulfstream allowance on Feb. 8. – additional reporting by Jay Privman