With Verve, As Seen On Tv bring strong stakes performances to Sunday allowance

Back-to-back allowances anchor an 11-race Sunday card that starts at 12:05 p.m. Eastern. Both are $48,000 second-level allowances, with race 8 going at five furlongs on turf and race 9 at six furlongs on the main track.

With Verve and As Seen On Tv, both of them factors in the 3-year-old stakes ranks at Gulfstream earlier this year, will line up alongside each other in race 9. With Verve won the Hutcheson in February, while As Seen On Tv was beaten just a head in the Much Macho Man in January.

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The co-features are part of the 20-cent Rainbow 6 (races 6-11), which had a carryover of $319,997 into Friday and was expected to have a pool guarantee of at least $600,000 for Sunday, assuming the jackpot is not emptied by a single winning ticket before then.

Six of the 11 Sunday races are for 2-year-olds. Six are scheduled for the turf, which is expected to be firm, given another forecast for dry conditions.

After Sunday, Gulfstream goes dark for two days before another five-day week starts Wednesday. The highlights next week are the $100,000 Mr. Prospector and the $100,000 Via Borghese, both to be run next Saturday.