HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Thursday evening figures to be a memorable one for the potent jockey and trainer combination of Junior Alvarado and Bill Mott, who are likely to be spending plenty of time at the podium accepting accolades for Sovereignty at the 2026 Eclipse Awards ceremony. Alvarado and Mott are also likely to be celebrating together about five hours earlier in the Gulfstream Park winner’s circle with Nic’s Style. The 6-year-old looms the odds-on favorite in an $87,000 allowance for fillies and mares that will be decided at six furlongs on the main track. Nic’s Style is far and away the class of the field. The daughter of Uncaptured won the Grade 3 Hurricane Bertie here last winter, capping off a string of four straight stakes victories. After that, she went to the sidelines for eight months before returning to finish fourth in the Pumpkin Pie at Aqueduct on Nov. 8, the only time she’s finished off the board in 10 lifetime starts. Nic’s Style comes into her 2026 debut off a second-place finish behind the rail-skimming Ms. Bucchero in the Sugar Swirl Stakes five weeks ago, suffering her first loss in four starts over the local course. She is a perfect fit for the conditions of Thursday’s race 9, which is restricted to horses who have not won since March 22, 2025. Nic’s Style’s last victory came in the Hurricane Bertie on March 8. :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports are available now.  Nic’s Style will break from post 3 under Alvarado, who has been aboard the mare for each of her seven career wins. The late-running Nic’s Style will need some pace to run at, and that figures to be provided by Lynn’s Milky Way, who exits a popular and hard-fought neck victory against lesser allowance competition under leading rider Irad Ortiz Jr. here on Dec. 20. The win was the third in four local appearances for the Luis Ramirez-trained Lynn’s Milky Way, who should come away running from her outside post and could prove the one to catch with Ortiz signed on to ride her again. She’s My Lady Luck turns back in distance off a series of longer races but comes into the race in top form, having registered two wins and two seconds in her last four starts for trainer David Braddy. She completes a field that also includes Rumours Have It, Sing a Little Song, and Taliesin. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.