HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Handicappers could find themselves having a difficult time separating the top four contenders – Shape Note, Boat’s a Rockin, Cyclonite, and Itza Boss – in Sunday’s $86,000 allowance and optional-claiming feature at Gulfstream Park. The sprint lured 11 potential starters to go five furlongs on the turf. Shape Note will surely go postward the favorite, not only on the strength of his recent record – he has won four of his last five starts – but by virtue of the fact Irad Ortiz Jr. has taken a return call. The presence of the meet’s dominant rider almost always attracts additional pari-mutuel support, no matter the relative quality of his mount’s current form. Shape Note’s recent string of success coincides with his switch to trainer Mike Maker’s barn after having been claimed for $25,000 out of a fourth-place finish at Ellis Park early last summer. A versatile sort, Shape Note has won twice on the dirt, once over the Tapeta, and once on the grass since joining Maker’s stable. The turf victory is arguably his best performance of all and one for which he earned a career-high 91 Beyer Speed Figure at Churchill Downs in his 2025 finale on Nov. 15. :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day.  In Shape Note’s recent grass win, his fourth in seven starts over the surface, he came from off a lively pace. That projects to be the case again Sunday with plenty of speed signed on. About the only drawback to playing Shape Note, obviously aside from the price, is the fact he could potentially encounter traffic issues breaking from post 1 in the bulky lineup. Boat’s a Rockin is also in peak form and wheels back off a claim under the same conditions and price tag that produced a popular half-length victory over the course four weeks earlier. Boat’s a Rockin, fifth in the Janus Stakes in his previous start, has seen his Beyer Speed Figures climb steadily over each of his last three outings, hitting its peak at 90 for his most recent of 16 career victories. Cyclonite has proven to be very consistent, albeit bit of a hanging sort, since shipping to the U.S. and joining trainer Mark Casse’s barn last summer at Saratoga. He has gone winless in four North American starts but has hit the board in each of his last three outings while beaten a total of less than 1 1/4 lengths. He too brings a lot of Beyer power to the table, having posted back-to-back career-best figures of 89 and 90 in his last two tries. Itza Boss ran huge in defeat behind Boat’s a Rockin when the pair met for the first time in their 2026 debuts. Itza Boss did all the dirty work on the front end before succumbing grudgingly to the winner in the closing strides. His one advantage in the rematch is that he’s drawn outside all the other speed in this lineup, which could set him up for the kind of stalking trip that produced a half-length triumph against lesser Florida-bred allowance competition in his 2025 bow on Oct. 24. Royal Delta nominations A dozen older fillies and mares have been nominated for the Grade 3 Royal Delta Stakes here next Saturday, and as has been the case on earlier occasions in the division, the majority of that group hails from the barn of leading trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. Joseph nominated five – Claret Beret, Dazzling Move, Eunomia, Luvumorgan, and U Lite Up My Life. Claret Beret and Dazzling Move finished third and fifth, respectively, in the Grade 2 Inside Information here just two weeks ago. :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports are available now.  Although Joseph may have strength in numbers, the marquee names on the nomination list hail from the barns of trainers Brad Cox, Whit Beckman, Chad Summers, and Brendan Walsh. The group includes last-out stakes winners Alpine Princess (Cox), Drexel Hill (Beckman), and Nothing Like U (Walsh), along with Summers’s Grade 1-placed Dry Powder, who has been idle since finishing a distant eighth in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff. The one-mile Royal Delta will be drawn on Saturday. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.