HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – With the Championship meet in the rearview mirror, and with it the majority of the big-name stables and riders who have campaigned locally for the past three months gone elsewhere, racing on the local circuit will settle in for the long spring-summer campaign, which begins Thursday at Gulfstream Park with the opening of the Royal Palm Meet. Racing will be conducted Thursdays through Sundays over the next two months with the highlight of the session the $100,000 Royal Palm Juvenile and Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies stakes for 2-year-olds going five furlongs on the turf. The winner of each race qualifies for a bonus of $25,000 in expenses to compete in one of the six juvenile races to be run at Royal Ascot in June. The first 2-year-old races of the year are carded for fillies, over dirt and Tapeta, on April 13, with the open version of those races in the condition book for the following day. Post time during the Royal Palm meet remains at 12:40 p.m. :: Get ready for Gulfstream Park racing with DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports. Opening day has an eight-race card topped by a $51,000 allowance and optional-claiming event for fillies and mares going seven furlongs over the main track that lured a wide-open field of seven. Not all the Northern-based horses have cleared out of town just yet, with the Todd Pletcher-trained Greatitude and the Jimmy Jerkens-trained Broadway Force among the key players in the main event. Greatitude has been idle since finishing fifth in the Grade 3 Forward Gal here 14 months earlier. The daughter of Dialed In, who is owned by Mike Repole, had shown plenty of promise launching her career at 2, winning her maiden going seven furlongs here in December of 2021. Greatitude has worked six times prepping for her return, the last three of those drills at Gulfstream Park where she breezed a bullet five furlongs in 1:01 on March 24. Broadway Force also has made only three starts, having been sidelined more than 15 months after finishing third launching her career at Belmont Park during the fall of her 2-year-old campaign. Jerkens had her fit and ready for a big effort off the bench, and Broadway Force returned to win her maiden going seven furlongs with a 73 Beyer Speed Figure here on Jan. 21. She ran fifth in an allowance sprint here Feb. 26 in her only subsequent start. Emisael Jaramillo will ride Broadway Force, who will be equipped with blinkers for the first time on Thursday. Peachy Weachy is the only four time winner in the field and is coming off a solid second-place finish going a mile under similar conditions four weeks earlier. She also figures to garner considerable support along with Rosie’s Halo, a statebred allowance winner with a 76 Beyer Figure in December, who hails from the barn of the Championship meet’s leading trainer, Saffie Joseph Jr. Poiema, whose form tailed off at the end of her 3-year-old season last year, has been training forwardly for her return from a three-month layoff. The lineup also includes Sea Art and Hazardous Humor. Apprentice Morrison returns Seven pound apprentice jockey Ailsa Morrison will launch a comeback of her own beginning Thursday after being sidelined due to a knee injury last October. Morrison, who rode 24 of her 32 career winners here in 2022, has been working horses for Joseph and Rohan Crichton for the past couple of months with an eye on the opening of the Royal Palm meet. :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day. Morrison has one mount on Thursday’s card and is also named aboard West Bank, who figures to be among the favorites in Saturday’s seventh race for trainer Bill Mott. Morrison’s book is being handled by veteran agent Mike Sellitto. ◗ Irad Ortiz Jr. dominated the jockey standings during the Championship meet, capturing the title with 128 winners, 57 more than runner-up and defending champ Luis Saez. Ortiz’s win total fell a dozen short of his own Championship session record of 140, established two years earlier during a meet that ran three weeks longer. ◗ Joseph defended his training title by a 57-51 count over Pletcher, whose meet was capped by Forte’s victory in Saturday’s $1 million Florida Derby. Pletcher saddled a meet-leading nine stakes winners, with his horses earning nearly $3.6 million during the session. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.