HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The $125,000 Tropical Park Derby and its filly counterpart, the $125,000 Tropical Park Oaks, should provide bettors with serious handicapping challenges when bringing together full, graded stakes-caliber fields on Saturday’s excellent 11-race program at Gulfstream Park. A field of 12, plus two 3-year-old fillies on the also-eligible list, have been entered for the Oaks, a 1 1/16-mile turf race. The group is led by And One More Time, who won the Grade 1 Natalma at 2 but has raced only once in 2025. She will face an extremely well-matched lineup that includes Grade 3 winner Destino d’Oro, along with stakes winners Mischief in Motion and Crafty Collector, plus the graded stakes-placed duo of It Ain’t Two and Supa Speed. A strong case also can be made for a majority of the dozen 3-year-olds drawn into the body of the Tropical Derby. Recent Grade 3 winner Tiz Dashing tops a lineup that includes stakes winners Thundering, Church and State, Layabout, and Tank along with the recently graded stakes-placed Chapman’s Peak. Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse will have starters in both races – Day and Age in the Derby but most notably And One More Time in the Oaks. She defeated stablemates Vixen and Nitrogen when closing her juvenile campaign a bit prematurely in the one-mile Natalma at Woodbine in September 2024. :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day.  “Both these race came up extremely competitive with very strong fields, which is what happens when you run 3-year-old stakes at the end of the year,” Casse said. “Obviously, the Natalma was some race for us a year ago, finishing one-two-three like we did, although at the time we didn’t realize how great a race it was considering what these horses have gone on to accomplish this season.” Casse was referring to runner-up Vixen and especially third-place Nitrgoen. Vixen is a Grade 3 winner and multiple Grade 2-placed at 3. Nitrogen has gone on to become a three-time graded stakes winner on turf and achieved even greater glory by winning the Grade 1 Alabama and finishing second in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff when switched to the main track during the second half of this season. “Unfortunately, And One More Time suffered an ankle injury training up to the Breeders’ Cup after the Natalma,” Casse explained. “I thought her comeback race was excellent, the horse she beat [Shotgun Wedding] won a stakes in her next start. And I think she has every right to move forward coming out of that race.” Casse is one of several trainers with horses in both stakes along with Brad Cox and Michael Trombetta. Cox will give Destino d’Oro some class relief in the Oaks after her eighth-place finish in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup on Oct. 11. Destino d’Oro captured the Grade 3 Pucker Up by 3 3/4 lengths with a career-best 85 Beyer Speed Figure during the summer at Ellis Park. Trombetta sends out key contenders Mischief in Motion and Souper Williwaw in the Oaks. Both fillies, like And One More Time, are owned by Live Oak Plantation. Mischief in Motion won the Christiana Stakes at Delaware Park and finished second to Crafty Collector in the Showing Up here five weeks later. Souper Williwaw has won each of her last two starts but will be taking a step up in class. Tiz Dashing, trained by Barclay Tagg, returns locally for the Derby after overcoming a wide trip to run down loose-on-the-lead Noble Confessor and capture the Grade 3 Hill Prince going 1 1/8 miles last month at Aqueduct. The 88 Beyer Speed Figure he earned for the effort is far and away a career best. Cox will counter Tiz Dashing with Chapman’s Peak, a steadily improving son of Quality Road who also earned an 88 Beyer when beaten a head by the multiple graded stakes winner Giocoso despite prompting all the pace just three weeks ago in the Grade 3 Commonwealth at Churchill Downs. The Tropical Derby also will bring back Trombetta’s Souper Forces, plus Layabout, Candytown, and Day and Age, the first-, second-, fourth- and seventh-place finishers, respectively, in the Showing Up here Nov. 1. Candytown finished best of all in the Showing Up after getting shuffled in traffic on the second turn. White Abarrio works White Abarrio, working for only the second time since being scratched in the post parade minutes before the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, breezed five furlongs from the half-mile pole in 1:00.39 here Thursday, per Daily Racing Form, with regular rider Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard. :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports are available now.  “He had to work to get off the vets list as a result of what happened at the Breeders’ Cup,” trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. explained several hours later. “We were going to wait until next week to do this since it was only his second work back. But with the holidays coming up, we didn’t want to take the chance of the blood work not coming back in time before his next start.” White Abarrio is pointing to the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector on Dec. 27 as a prep for a defense of his title in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup four weeks later. “We’ve been going through our due diligence making sure everything is perfect for his return because of what transpired at the Breeders’ Cup,” Joseph said. “It’s not the place you want to be. But he’s a very high-profile horse, and the situation just kind of escalated. “This is the most pressure I’ve felt bringing a horse up to a race in my life. It’s not the place you want to be in, but unfortunately, it’s part of the business.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.