HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A pair of stakes for older Florida-breds, the Sunshine Turf and Sunshine Sprint, highlight Saturday’s 11-race program at Gulfstream Park. The Turf is a real handicapping dilemma matching a full and extremely wide-open field going 1 1/16 miles. The Sprint features the return of last year’s winner, Damon’s Mound, who figures to go to post one of the shortest-priced horses on the card. The Sunshine Turf brings together a stakes-caliber lineup, the overwhelming majority of whom will be making a rare appearance in restricted statebred company. The top contenders include stakes winners Classic of Course, Seminole Chief, Tank, and Neoequos, along with the razor-sharp Echo Lane and stakes-placed Iron Hand. Of that group, Grade 1-placed Neoequos poses the biggest question mark while making his grass debut in the Sunshine Turf for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. Neoequos finished third in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth and Grade 1 Florida Derby here last season before finishing 13th after contesting the pace for the opening mile in the Kentucky Derby. He competed exclusively in sprint races during the second half of his 3-year-old campaign, with his only two wins on the season coming at six furlongs, including the Jersey Shore Stakes last summer at Monmouth Park. :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day.  Neoequos is by Neolithic out of the mare Bold Birdie, who never hit the board in four career starts on grass. She has foaled one grass winner, Wild Embrace, who won going 5 1/2 furlongs on turf at Monmouth against $16,000 maiden claimers. Neolithic has won with 14 percent of his turf starters. Neoequos has had his last three works over the Tapeta track prepping for his turf bow, including a bullet four furlongs in 46.40 seconds over the lively surface on Dec. 28. “He’s working well on the Tapeta, but this will be his first time ever trying turf, so you just don’t know,” Joseph said. “If he handles it, I think he should run well.” If Neoequos does take to the footing, he could prove the one to catch while stretching back out around two turns. But he doesn’t figure to be able to open too much of an early advantage on Tank, who finished a game third after contesting all the pace in the Tropical Park Derby in his 3-year-old finale on Dec. 13. Tank was a three-time stakes winner in 2025, capturing both the English Channel and Not Surprising over the local course following a victory in the Sophomore Turf last spring at Tampa Bay Downs. That was the one and only time the homebred son of Adios Charlie has competed against Florida-breds in his 14 race career. Tank is conditioned by the red-hot Carlos David, who is currently battling Joseph and Hall of Famer Mark Casse for the lead in the trainer standings at the Championship meet. Casse also has a key player in the race, the relatively inexperienced Our Souper Hero, who will make his stakes debut but comes in having won each of his last two starts, including a Florida-bred allowance race in wire-to-wire fashion over this course on Dec. 5. Seminole Chief, the tepid 7-2 morning-line favorite, and Classic of Course both won turf stakes here last March. Seminole Chief took the one-mile Appleton in game fashion, Classic of Course the 7 1/2-furlong Cutler Bay. The versatile Seminole Chief has gone winless in three starts since the Appleton, two of which came against graded stakes foes. Classic of Course will return to the grass for the first time since finishing fifth behind Tank last spring in the Not Surprising. Echo Lane is good now, having captured two of his last three starts and 6 of 8 tries on turf at the 1 1/16-mile distance of the Sunshine Turf. He also owns the highest lifetime Beyer Speed Figure of any member of the field, a 97 earned for an allowance win 14 months ago at Churchill Downs. Sunshine Sprint Damon’s Mound launched his 2025 season with a hard-fought neck decision against statebreds in the Sunshine Sprint and ended it with an equally game victory against Grade 3 stakes competition in the Bold Ruler at Aqueduct 10 months later. He made four starts in between those victories, posting two thirds and a pair of fourth-place finishes, one of which came in the Grade 2 Alfred G. Vanderbilt behind potential Sprint champion Book’em Danno. :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports are available now.  “He’s getting a little older, I don’t know if he’s at his peak anymore, but he ran well in some tough races last year,” trainer Bill Mott said. “That’s what we hope to do this season – find some spots he fits in, and it looks like he should fit okay in this spot with Florida-breds.” Damon’s Mound, who turned 6 earlier this month, will break from the rail under Junior Alvarado and will likely prove the one to catch with a clean beginning. He’ll face just six rivals in the six-furlong Sunshine Sprint, including the 6-year-old mare Ms. Bucchero, who exits arguably the best race of her career, a 1 1/2-length victory in the Sugar Swirl Stakes on Dec. 20, when rallying to defeat the Mott-trained Nic’s Style for her third stakes win of the year. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.