SUGAR SWIRL

Gulfstream Park, sixth race. Grade 3. Purse: $100,000. Six furlongs, fillies and mares. Post: 3:36 p.m.

LOWDOWN: Tar Heel Mom makes here first start of the year after closing out 2009 with a pair of four-length runaways in sprint stakes at the Meadowlands and Aqueduct. The last time she returned from a short layoff, she won by five.

TV: HRTV, OTB Ch. 71

GULFSTREAM PARK TURF SPRINT

Gulfstream Park, eighth race. Purse: $75,000. Five furlongs, turf, 4-year-olds and up. Post: 4:35 p.m.

LOWDOWN: Hockeythehayman is unbeaten in four starts, the last two easy victories in grass dashes. Trainer Wesley Ward is especially adept with turf sprinters.

TV: HRTV, OTB Ch. 71

SAN PASQUAL HANDICAP

Santa Anita, eighth race. Grade 2. Purse: $150,000. Mile-and-a-sixteenth, 4-year-olds and up. Post: 7:07 p.m.

LOWDOWN: Neko Bay, from the connections of the mighty Zenyatta (owners Jerry and Ann Moss, trainer John Shirreffs, jockey Mike Smith), rallied for third last out as the 2-1 favorite in the Grade 3 Native Diver at Hollywood Park. The 7-year-old is a horse for the course at Santa Anita, with four wins and two seconds from seven starts.

TV: HRTV, OTB Ch. 71