Integration may not be the only 3-year-old male turf horse in trainer Shug McGaughey’s barn with a promising future. Ohana Honor has improved significantly during the latter part of 2023, a year he will try to end with his first stakes victory in Saturday’s $125,000 Tropical Park Derby for 3-year-olds at Gulfstream Park. The Tropical Park Derby, scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on turf, is the last of 11 races – and four $125,000 stakes – on a program that begins at 12:10 p.m. The card includes the Tropical Park Oaks for 3-year-old fillies on turf as well the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector for male sprinters on dirt and the Grade 3 Sugar Swirl for female sprinters on dirt. The four stakes are part of a Rainbow 6 wager that will have a mandatory payout. The jackpot bet was hit on Friday, so there will be no carryover for Saturday's card.  Ohana Honor enters the Tropical Park Derby with two wins and a second in his last three starts. That trio of races came after Ohana Honor had an undescended testicle removed earlier in the year, according to McGaughey. :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. After a maiden win on dirt in August and a first-level allowance win on turf in September – both at Colonial Downs – Ohana Honor finished second to his West Point Thoroughbreds-owned stablemate Northern Invader in the Gio Ponti Stakes going a mile at Aqueduct, rallying from last of five to finish a length back while seven lengths clear of the field. “I do think it was too short, I thought he ran really well, that course favors speed,” McGaughey said. “We were on the outside course, if we were on the inner, I think we could have gotten there. We were making up a lot of ground.” McGaughey had Ohana Honor entered in the Grade 3 Commonwealth at Churchill Downs on Nov. 26, but scratched him when that race was moved from turf to dirt. On Saturday, Tyler Gaffalione rides Ohana Honor from post 9. The Tropical Park Derby drew 14 but is limited to 12 starters. Anglophile has run his two best races on turf, including a victory in the Grade 3 Dueling Grounds Derby, since trainer Brian Lynch added blinkers to his equipment. This is a little shorter than his best trip. Amstrong, Souper Blessing, and Eyes On the King finished 1-2-3 in the Showing Up Stakes run over Gulfstream’s synthetic surface. Eyes On the King has speed and the rail. His Mark Casse-trained stablemate Boppy O upset the Jersey Derby at Monmouth Park in June before finishing last in the Belmont Derby on July 8. Legacy Isle, April Fools Andy, Torigo, Smokey Mandate, Mutaawid, and Souzak are in the body of the field. Irish Aces and Harrington are on the also-eligible list. Tropical Park Oaks Implicated was just getting started when turf season came to an end in New York. Conversely, it was last winter when Cairo Consort got her 3-year-old season off to a dynamic start with two stakes wins at Gulfstream, including a dramatic victory in the Grade 3 Sweetest Chant. Saturday, these two gray fillies head a full field entered to run 1 1/16 miles in the Tropical Park Oaks, the first of four stakes on the card. Implicated, who won the Chelsey Flower Stakes at Aqueduct in October 2022, came off a year-long layoff to finish fourth in an allowance race. She rebounded three weeks later with a rail-skimming trip to win the Grade 3 Pebbles by a half-length at Aqueduct. That day, Implicated got the covered-up trip she needed to be successful, according to trainer Chad Brown. Tyler Gaffalione will be employed to work out that same trip from post 9. Brown also entered Startup Mentality, third in the Pebbles, and Notinamillionyears, second in an allowance. Startup Mentality is marooned in post 12 while Notinamillionyears needs a scratch to draw in. Cairo Consort, trained by Todd Pletcher, has not run since a seventh-place finish in the Grade 2 Edgewood at Churchill in May. Last winter, she won the Ginger Brew Stakes at Gulfstream, then rallied from last after blowing the break to win the Grade 3 Sweetest Chant. Irad Ortiz Jr. rides Cairo Consort from the rail. Pletcher also sends out Alpha Bella, who was second to Cairo Consort in the Sweetest Chant. Her lone win since came in an off-the-turf match race at Saratoga. Breath Away, trained by Christophe Clement, went 2 for 2 over the Gulfstream turf last winter, including a victory in the Sanibel Island Stakes. Most recently, she finished third in the Autumn Miss at Santa Anita behind runaway winner Ruby Nell and Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks winner Anisette. “She ran very well,” Clement said of Breath Away. “The winner was amazing.” Clement noted that Breath Away’s two wins at Gulfstream came at 7 1/2 furlongs and this 1 1/16 miles “might be the end of the world for her, we’ll see.” Riding Pretty, Personal Pursuit, Sun Bee, Zipadoo, Speed Trap, Dolce Sopresa, and Be My Sunshine complete the field. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.