1.   At Gulfstream Park, meanwhile, speedy horses were wearing out the turf course as the weekend began.

2.   At Gulfstream Park, there has been some problem with the condition of the turf course.

3.   After kicking around the high allowance and low stakes classes on the Southern California turf courses, Cleante suddenly improved when McAnally switched him to dirt.

4.   But it rained heavily Saturday after weeks of drought, the turf course turned soft, the pace was tantalizingly slow and Yagli finished seventh and last.

5.   Dave Samuel, one of the Del Mar stewards, remembers a classier brand of streaker taking to the Santa Anita turf course.

6.   Corey Nakatani blamed the Santa Anita turf course for the last-place finish of odds-on Journalism.

7.   Corey Nakatani has won with six of the eight favorites he has ridden on the Del Mar turf course.

8.   Europeans like the filly Ridgewood Pearl might benefit, though, from a soggy turf course.

9.   If an infield chute is added to the existing turf course, what becomes of the infield training track?

10.   In fact, the fifth race Sunday was taken off the grass, and the turf course was rated soft when Fourstardave entered the track.