HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Two years ago, trainer Brian Lynch swept the three-race series for filly and mare turf sprinters held each winter during the Gulfstream Park Championship meet with Stone Silent. On Saturday, he’ll be favored to repeat that accomplishment when he sends out Moon Spun in quest of her fifth straight victory in the $125,000 Captiva Island Stakes. The five-furlong Captiva Island is the third and last of the stakes to be decided on Saturday’s 14-race card that also includes the $125,000 Hutcheson for 3-year-olds and its filly counterpart, the $125,000 Any Limit. Moon Spun began her current streak during the fall of 2024 at Keeneland. She then went to the sidelines for 13 months before returning to win an allowance race off the bench here Nov. 27 as a prelude to her victories in the Abundantia and Ladies’ Turf Sprint stakes. She registered a hard-fought neck decision in the first of her stakes tallies before having an easier time capturing the Ladies’ Turf Sprint by a comfortable 3 1/4 lengths in gate-to-wire fashion Feb. 7. “The sprint series on grass has always been fantastic down here. We swept it a couple of years ago with Stone Silent, and it would be nice to come back and do it again with Moon Spun,” Lynch said. “She’s always been a very consistent mare, she’s never been off the board, and she’s become bigger, stronger, and more confident as she’s gotten older and continued to win. “She’s a filly who really loves her job and couldn’t be doing any better coming into this race.” :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day.  Lynch has had an outstanding meet, having already won nine stakes, more than any other trainer here his winter, and 25 races overall from just 81 starters during the session. Each of his stakes victories have come on the grass. “This whole run has been absolutely fantastic all meet, and I’m just glad to have been a part of it,” Lynch said. The Captiva Island could prove Moon Spun’s toughest challenge yet, considering the fact the race has drawn a talented field of 11 fillies and mares and that she must break from the rail under regular rider Javier Castellano. Moon Spun’s competition will include stakes winners Great Venezuela, Me Governor, and Twirling Queen along with Le Amazonia, who finished a late-running second while earning a career-best 88 Beyer Speed Figure in the Ladies’ Turf Sprint. Another mare sure to garner plenty of support is Pandora’s Gift, graded stakes-placed in each of her first two U.S. starts but idle since finishing a tiring and disappointing 11th in the Grade 2 Presque Isle Downs Masters on Sept. 19. Hutcheson Stakes Stakes winner Diciassette and the undefeated Arbiter figure to vie for favoritism in the six-furlong Hutcheson. Diciassette opened his career with a pair of victories, including a one-length decision over Khon Han in the six-furlong Proud Man, decided over a sloppy track here last summer. Khon Han won his only subsequent start, a mile and 40-yard entry-level allowance race earlier this winter at Tampa Bay Downs. Diciassette has kept some pretty impressive company ever since that race. He closed his abbreviated 2-year-old campaign finishing a distant fourth behind subsequent juvenile champion Ted Noffey in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland before launching his 3-year-old season finishing an even-running fourth in the seven-furlong Swale. The Swale winner, Solitude Dude, returned to finish third in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth, with runner-up Class President coming back to capture the Grade 2 Rebel in his last start. “The race at Keeneland was too long; he’s a sprinter. He was a little fresh, a little too forward and very wide but ran a very good race for a comeback,” trainer Patrick Biancone said of Diciassette’s effort in the Swale. Arbiter has led at every call to win each of his first two starts, the first on the turf at Churchill Downs, the second over the synthetic track at Turfway Park when closing his 2-year-old season on Dec. 17. He will break from the rail in his main-track debut on Saturday and figures to be pressed for the early advantage by Wootun, who is exiting a wire-to-wire win of his own on the synthetic Tapeta course here last month. Sweeping Shadow, Freaky Neeks, and Fulmine also come into the race off victories in their most recent starts with the last named the only three-time winner in the field. Any Limit Stakes The classy Grade 3 winner Mythical and the up-and-coming Sweet Ember figure to vie for favoritism in the six-furlong Any Limit. Mythical won 5 of 6 starts at 2, including the Grade 3 Adirondack at Saratoga and both the Susan’s Girl and My Dear Girl divisions of the Florida Sire Series after returning to her home track at the end of the season. The Arindel homebred will be looking to bounce back from a disappointing fifth-place finish in the Grade 3 Forward Gal in her lone start at 3, a race in which she was pressed hard on the lead while racing in the deeper footing along the rail from the outset. “She didn’t break well, kind of rushed up and ran against a terrible track bias in the Forward Gal. It wasn’t really the right setup,” Arindel president Brian Cohen said. “This will be her first start at six furlongs, which I believe is what she really wants. We’ll see how good that other filly” – Sweet Ember – “is, but I expect us to be right on top of her from the start.” Sweet Ember has used her abundant speed to win both of her starts at 3, most recently dominating statebred allowance opposition by 9 1/2 lengths while registering a career-best 87 Beyer Speed Figure in the process for trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. The daughter of Mitole will be running back on just three weeks’ rest while returning to open company for her stakes debut Saturday. Those looking for an alternative to the two likely favorites, who figure to be out and winging on the front end, might try A Fine Chardonnay. The late-running filly outfinished On Time Girl to win the Myrtlewood Stakes in just her second career start last fall at Keeneland, with On Time Girl flattering the effort with her easy victory in the Forward Gal. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.