It’s a Bet 3 bonanza at Gulfstream Park this Friday, June 19. Pick any 3 races in order, bet a dollar on a winning combination and your weekend will be off to a fast start. We picked races 4 through 6, spanning three distances, two surfaces and the featured 7F allowance. With two selections in each leg, we upped the ante to $3 for a total $24 wager listed below.

Gulfstream Park 4th Race (1:56 p.m. EST)Speed abounds in this 5-1/2F sprint, so look to a pair of closers in a field that is a combined 63/13-15-8 on synthetic surfaces. HONOR HER upstaged a string of five in-the-money finishes with a winning 5F rally and career-best 77 Beyer at this level in March. She sheds 11 pounds in her second start off the re-claim by trainer Daniel Hurtak and is a tempting 10-1 on the morning line. SCHNITTKER, a steady upper-60 Beyer type nearing $100k in synthetic track earnings, fits the winning profile, but he was plagued by slow starts in better company recently, hence the equipment change to “blinkers on.”

Gulfstream Park 5th Race (2:28 p.m. EST)Going price-shopping in the second leg of the Bet 3. ANTILLEAN steps up off the claim and is 3-for-46 with a slow-starting habit. But he has two wins and three seconds on fast tracks at one mile since October and can’t be discounted in this 7F test. CAPTURE THE TIME backed off a fast pace from the rail on a day when 3 of 6 winners on the dirt track went wire-to-wire. He ranged up on the turn and seemed poised to strike in the stretch, only to tire badly. He met three next-out winners and a pair of winners with $200,000 bankrolls in his two previous starts for a higher tag.

Gulfstream Park 6th Race (3:00 p.m. EST)Four of the six entrants in the featured optional claimer test the Tapeta track for the first time. BOJACA BLESSING is a deserving favorite off her race two back, when she raced 3- to 5-wide throughout, drifted in the lane and was disqualified from an upset victory against several proven synthetic-track rivals. STARSHIP MELODY has two wins and two seconds in six starts on Tapeta. She will have to step it up a notch in here but could do so for a red-hot barn.

Suggested $3 Bet 3
GP 4th Race: 3, 5
GP 5th Race: 5, 8
GP 6th Race: 2, 4
Cost for a $3 Ticket: $24