PAN AMERICAN
Gulfstream Park, 10th race. Grade 2. Purse: $150,000. 1½ miles, turf; 4-year-olds and up. Post: 5:35 p.m.
LOWDOWN: Center Divider went to the front too early last out in the Mac Diarmada and tired, after coming from off the pace to win his start before that over the Gulfstream turf. He can handle today’s distance and classes up well against this field.
TV: HRTV, NYRA Channel 71.
SPIRAL
Turfway Park, 10th race. Grade 3. Purse: $500,000. 1¹/₈ miles, 3-year-olds. Post: 5:45 p.m.
LOWDOWN: The late-blooming Heavy Breathing took a while to get started, not making his debut for Todd Pletcher until Feb. 8, but he’s come a long way in two starts. Heavily favored in both of them, he graduated first time out by 7 ¾ lengths at 7 ½ furlongs, then stretched out to 1¹/₈ miles to win by 4 ¼ at Gulfstream Park. He is racing over a synthetic track for the first time, but has turf breeding top and bottom. A win here would give him enough graded stakes earnings to earn a berth in the Kentucky Derby.
TV: TVG, NYRA Channel 71.
TOKYO CITY
Santa Anita, 8th race. Grade 3. Purse: $100,000. 1¹/₂ miles, 4-year-olds and up. Post: 7:07 p.m.
LOWDOWN: Dynamic Host has been finishing well at shorter distances, and as a son of Dynformer, he is eligible to stretch out in today’s marathon. The 6-year-old gelding has been training well since his last start, twice working seven furlongs in 1:27 and change.
TV: HRTV, NYRA Channel 71.
LAST WEEK: At Aqueduct, Birdrun (9-2) was sixth in the Excelsior; at Gulfstream, Groupie Doll (3-1) was third in the Inside Information paying $3.60 to show; at Oaklawn, Jake Mo (26-1) was fourth in the Rebel.