HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – With the dirt experiment quickly over, it will be back to the turf for stakes-placed Ready for Peace when he takes on seven other 3-year-olds in Sunday’s co-featured fourth race. The $97,000 allowance and optional-claiming test shares top billing on the 10-race Super Bowl Sunday program with its filly counterpart, which will also be decided at a mile on turf later on the card. Ready for Peace launched his career with a pair of sharp efforts on turf, winning his debut by 2 3/4 lengths as the well-backed 8-5 favorite at Colonial Downs on Aug. 17 before returning to finish third just three weeks later in the Juvenile Mile Stakes at Kentucky Downs. At that point trainer Ignacio Correas IV opted to try Ready for Peace on dirt for the first, and likely last time. The son of More Than Ready was beaten 36 lengths in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland in his juvenile finale. “He ran very well in his first two starts and was training really forwardly at Keeneland coming off those races so I thought it was the right time to try him on dirt,” Correas said. “Unfortunately, it just didn’t work out. He ran terribly.” Correas backed off Ready for Peace following the Breeders’ Futurity, put him back in training in late December, and is pleased with the way his horse has responded leading up to his 3-year-old debut. :: Get Gulfstream Park Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day. “He’s a nice horse, he’s done everything we’ve asked him to do to get ready for this race and I think this is a good spot to start him back in,” Correas said. “He’s still probably not as mature as we’ll want him, but I think he’s going to have a very good year, hopefully starting Sunday.” Ready for Peace’s competition will included two horses each from the barns of trainers Mark Casse and Kelly Breen. Casse will send out stakes-placed Into Diamonds, who will stretch out beyond 5 1/2 furlongs for the first time, and Attack, who is a winner around two turns but who will be making his turf debut. Breen’s pair are the last-out maiden winner Versus, who rallied for a neck decision going a mile on the turf here Jan. 4, and Gotta Guy, who was transferred into the barn prior to the start of his 3-year-old campaign and appears to be working forwardly over the turf at Palm Meadows. Forged Steel, a well-graded maiden winner on grass here at 2, may ultimately prove the one to catch in a lineup that also includes Roscoe Pine and I’m Otter Here. A field of 10 has been entered for the filly division of the race, eight of whom are coming off victories in their most recent starts. Altamira Sur and Smart Union are the only multiple winners in the race. Altamira Sur defeated mid-level optional-claiming and starter opposition over the Tapeta here last month. Smart Union beat higher-level optional-claiming and allowance competition launching her 3-year-old season at Tampa Bay Downs on Jan. 10. Pulp Fiction could be a hit Correas has big shoes to fill in his barn following the sale of his Grade 1 winner Mufasa earlier this winter. One of the horses he’s hopeful might fit the bill is the lightly raced but promising 4-year-old Pulp Fiction, a Group 1 winner last season in her native Argentina who is stabled locally and gradually working up to her U.S. debut, which is not likely to come until the spring. On Friday, Pulp Fiction breezed an easy but quick half-mile here in 47.31 seconds over the main track with jockey Horacio Karamanos aboard. “She worked faster than I wanted this morning but she was going so easy,” Correas said. “And that’s what good horses do. She won the Guineas in Argentina, so we have high expectations for her. “Sometimes it takes South American horses time to adapt to the shorter stretches and different type of racing in America. It took Blue Prize” – the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner – “five or six starts before she showed off her real talent, although others, like Mufasa and Didia, both did it off the bat. But normally, time is these types of horses best friend.” :: Play Gulfstream Park with confidence! DRF Past Performances, Picks, and Clocker Reports available now. Nicholls rides first U.S. winner Jockey Mia Nicholls won her first race in North America, guiding Princess Cairo to a popular victory for trainer Jeremiah O’Dwyer in Thursday’s second race. Nicholls won 28 races in her native England before coming to the U.S. to gallop horses for O’Dwyer last winter. Princess Cairo was her 14th mount since she began riding locally in November. Nicholls, 20, gets a seven-pound apprentice allowance and plans to continue riding in the U.S. moving forward. “It’s all very different, but I’m coming to terms with it now,” said Nicholls. “I might go to Maryland in the summer, but America is now the future for me.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.