Mother Nature will play spoiler both today and likely the entire holiday weekend at Gulfstream Park with rain in the forecast through Monday. Saturday's six turf races have been moved to the main track, which is listed as sloppy right from the outset. There are already 35 reported scratches on the 12 race program although the majority of the turf races had enough backup to still ensure field sizes of 8 starters or more. There is a carryover of just under $100,000 in the Rainbow 6 which begins in the 7th race.

The featured ninth event will now be decided at a mile and one sixteenth on the main track. Three of the ten original starters are out including morning line favorite Uncle B. The surface change will likely benefit Master Plan, who finished third over a muddy track behind Thunder Snow as a 3-year-old in the Group 2 UAE Derby.

Early Scratches:

1st: 1,4,6,7,8

3rd: 3,7,8,10,11,15,16

5th: 1.8.9,13,14,15,16

6th: 5

7th: 1,2,8,9,14

9th: 3,4,7

11th: 8,9,10,12

12th: 5,9,11