Katz a Dream tries allowance off debut victory

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Sunday’s card features a trio of allowance races, the first two restricted to Florida-breds and the third an open entry-level allowance for fillies and mares to be run at a mile over the main track. That race goes as the 10th event on an 11-race card that begins at 12:05 p.m.

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An evenly matched field of 10 will go in the $47,000 headliner, three of whom won their last start, including Katz a Dream, who in her only start rallied to an easy 3 3/4-length victory going six furlongs over a sloppy track at Gulfstream Park West. A Whisper Hill Farm homebred, Katz a Dream is by Tizway out of the Grade 2-winning mare Katz Me If You Can, and is trained by Ralph Nicks.

Both Erv’s Wench and Princess Betty earned career-best Beyer Speed Figures winning their 2020 finales. Erv’s Wench rallied to defeat conditioned $50,000 claiming opposition over a sloppy track at Churchill Downs on Nov. 25. Princess Betty stretched out to a mile for the first time to defeat statebred allowance company here on Dec. 17 for her third victory in six career starts.

Other key contenders in the race include the Grade 3-placed Impeccable Style and Heiressindy, who has finished second under similar conditions in her last three outings.