A trio of very competitive stakes was drawn here at Gulfstream Park on Wednesday for Saturday’s card, topped by the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap and the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap.

The nine-furlong Gulfstream Park Turf lured the top three finishers – Flatlined, Almanaar, and Divisidero – from the 1 1/16-mile Fort Lauderdale here last month. They will face an imposing group of contenders that includes last year’s Turf winner, Luke’s Alley; Grade 1 winner Beach Patrol; All Included, third in this race a year ago; and the multiple Grade 3 winner War Correspondent.

A handful of horses – all healthy – remain in isolation in temporary tents on the Fair Grounds property, but otherwise, the equine herpesvirus scare that briefly threatened to ruin the track’s racing season basically is over.

Gun Runner has been training throughout the winter at Fair Grounds, but on Wednesday, trainer Steve Asmussen put him on a van to Oaklawn Park, where Gun Runner will make his 4-year-old debut in the $500,000 Razorback Handicap on Monday, Feb. 20.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Although tempted to launch Three Rules’s 3-year-old campaign in the Grade 2 Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park last weekend, trainer Jose Pinchin stuck to his original plan and began the year on a more conservative note in the seven-furlong Swale.

And despite seeing Three Rules drop a three-quarter-length decision to Favorable Outcome in the Grade 2 Swale and then watching 2-year-old male champion Classic Empire disappoint in the 1 1/16-mile Holy Bull, Pinchin does not regret his decision.

Sippin, who is undefeated in seven starts, was among a handful of horses who received divisional honors from the New Mexico Horse Breeders’ Association last week in Albuquerque. Sippin was the leading 2-year-old New Mexico-bred filly for 2016 after winning all six of her starts last year.

Her dam, Samba Queen, was recognized as the broodmare of the year. Sippin races for her breeder, R.D. Hubbard.

Delta Downs will put on its second-richest program of the meet Saturday night with the running of the $1 million Louisiana Premier Night. The card features six stakes restricted to horses bred in Louisiana. There are also four starter handicaps. First post is 5:40 p.m. Central.

Delta’s richest program is in November, when it puts on a card of eight stakes worth more than $2.3 million, led by the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot.

Family Tree, a Grade 2 winner and earner of more than $700,000 who last raced at Sam Houston, has been retired, trainer Wayne Catalano said Monday. She is to be bred to Medaglia d’Oro, according to Benny Glass, the racing manager for owners Gary and Mary West.

Glass said Family Tree will be based in Kentucky. She last raced Jan. 29, finishing third in the Grade 3, $400,000 Houston Ladies Classic.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Win the Space, who placed in two Grade 1 races last year but was eased in the Breeders’ Cup Classic last November, has returned to trainer George Papaprodromou’s stable at Santa Anita.

Win the Space arrived last weekend and is expected to return to racing this spring.

“We gave him 60 days off,” Papaprodromou said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Twice last year, Ohio was tried in graded stakes on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita. Twice, he encountered trouble and was beaten three lengths.

“It was horrible,” trainer Paulo Lobo recalled on Wednesday.

There are no more hillside races in Ohio’s short-term future. Instead, Ohio will start in Saturday’s Grade 2 Arcadia Stakes at a mile on turf, his first start at the distance since a third behind Midnight Storm and Om in the Grade 2 Del Mar Mile last August.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Champagne Room’s third-place finish in last Sunday’s Grade 2 Las Virgenes Stakes at Santa Anita has left trainer Peter Eurton contemplating an out-of-town option for her.

The champion 2-year-old filly of 2016, Champagne Room was beaten 10 lengths by the upstart Unique Bella in the $200,000 Las Virgenes Stakes at a mile. The Las Virgenes was Champagne Room’s first start since she won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies here last November.