HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The last chance for local horseplayers to bring home the proverbial “Christmas money” will come Wednesday at Gulfstream Park. The nine-race program is headlined by the $125,000 Via Borghese Stakes, a 1 3/8-mile turf race for fillies and mares. The Via Borghese drew a field of eight, topped by a pair of graded stakes-winning mares, La Mehana and Venencia, who have changed homes since their previous starts. La Mehana is now under the tutelage of trainer Brad Cox, while Venencia has joined trainer Saffie Joseph Jr.’s equally potent barn. La Mehana was sold to Dixiana Farms for $500,000 at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale and has been training up to her 2025 finale at Payson Park, Cox’s primary base once again this winter. She will be looking to duplicate her performance from a year ago here when she rallied to win the Via Borghese by a neck over Forever After All following a hard-fought, stretch-long duel. La Mehana began her 2025 campaign finishing third locally in a trio of Grade 3 events – the La Prevoyante, the Very One, and the Orchid. She was trained at the time by the late Christophe Clement and registered her lone graded stakes victory this season, a super-impressive 6 3/4-length victory in the Grade 2 Glens Falls at Saratoga over a yielding course for Clement’s son Miguel. For that effort, she earned a career-best 104 Beyer Speed Figure. :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports are available now.  “We don’t know a whole lot about her, only what we see based on her form, but she’s proven to be a very good work horse on the dirt considering she’s a marathon turf horse,” said Cox. “The race looks like a decent spot. She’s been tuned up and ready to go, and it’s obviously a great addition to the barn. We already have Fionn, who Dixiana bred, so it’s kind of cool to have a couple of horses in that division now, especially with such a good series of races for those kind of mares at marathon distances. Venencia was also purchased out of the November breeding stock sale at Keeneland, going for $250,000 to Miller Racing. Her value increased significantly after winning the Grade 3 Dowager by 2 3/4 lengths over a yielding course going a mile and one-half at Keeneland on Oct. 19. The victory was her first in eight tries this season. She was graded stakes-placed on three other occasions earlier in the year. “Obviously, she ran very well last time and she’s been training pretty well since we’ve had her,” said Joseph. “It’s always great to pick up a horse in good form, especially one coming off a graded stakes win.” Both La Mehana and Venencia do their best running from off the pace and could find themselves at a bit of a disadvantage over what has been a speed-favoring course of late. Although there is no clear-cut front-runner in the lineup, it would appear Alluring Angel might be the one to take that initiative coming off her 1 1/4-length victory in the Grade 3 Long Island last month at Aqueduct, a race she won after stalking a slow early pace. :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day.  No Show Sammy Jo continues to maintain her form extremely well and will try to avenge recent setbacks to Alluring Angel, to whom she was second best in the Long Island, and Le Mehana, whom she chased home on a couple of occasions earlier in the year. “We’ve had kind of a frustrating year with her,” trainer Graham Motion said of No Show Sammy Jo. “She’s come within a length or so of winning the Long Island two years in a row now and was kind of unlucky both times.” Rainbow 6 ends with an upset Sunday’s mandatory payout of the Rainbow 6 returned $2,390 for a 20-cent ticket. There were 992 tickets sold on the winning combination in a final pool of nearly $2.9 million. The winning sequence began with Sky’s Not Falling ($7.20) and also included Wine On Sunday ($10), Etendre ($8.80), Silver Moonlight ($5), Maerdama ($3.60), and Steelin Bases ($28.80), who upset the finale in wire-to-wire fashion from post 12 in the nightcap. Joseph sent out two of the six winners, Silver Moonlight and Maerdama, while posting a hat trick on the card that began with You Ain’t Poppn in the third race. The wins pulled Joseph into a dead heat with Jose D’Angelo atop the trainer standings with 11 victories for the Championship session. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.