HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – It’s been a long time since a mid-week program at Gulfstream Park featured five allowance races, but that will be the case here Wednesday when Christmas comes early for local horsemen with $363,000 in purse money up for grabs on the 10-race card.

The best of the day’s five allowance races is a second-level allowance and high-priced optional-claiming dash offering a $51,000 purse. The six-furlong race lured a field of six, including a pair of stakes-caliber sprinters, Classic Rock and Sheikh of Sheikhs, both of whom are coming off an extended vacation.

CYPRESS, Calif. - Family Girl provided a much-needed boost for trainer Peter Miller’s stable after the 2-year-old filly won a $32,000 claimer at 5 1/2 furlongs in Sunday’s first race at Los Alamitos.

Family Girl was Miller’s first starter since a devastating wildfire struck the San Luis Rey Downs training center in Bonsall, Calif., on Dec. 7. Most of Miller’s stable is based at San Luis Rey Downs.

Miller had 77 horses based at San Luis Rey Downs on Dec. 7 and lost five in the fire. Overall, the California Horse Racing Board announced last week, 46 horses died in the fire.

Colonist, who finished third in the Grade 3 La Jolla Handicap on turf at Del Mar in August, worked six furlongs in 1:13.80 Saturday for a scheduled start in the Grade 2 Mathis Brothers Mile at Santa Anita on Dec. 26, opening day of the winter-spring meet.

Colonist has not raced since finishing fourth in the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby at 1 1/8 miles on turf Sept. 4.

Owned by Stonestreet Stable and trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, Colonist has won 2 of 7 starts and earned $118,640. He was fourth behind West Coast in the Grade 3 Los Alamitos Derby last July in his stakes debut.

CYPRESS, Calif. - Intimidate will be considered for stakes at Golden Gate Fields or Santa Anita after winning for the third time in his four-race career in Saturday’s $100,000 King Glorious Stakes at Los Alamitos.

Trainer Bob Hess Sr. said Sunday that the $100,000 California Derby at 1 1/16 miles at Golden Gate Fields on Jan. 20 or the $200,000 California Cup Derby for statebreds at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita on Feb. 19 are under consideration.

Cooptado, winner of the Tenacious Stakes on Saturday, won’t run back in the Louisiana Stakes and will be pointed to longer dirt races next year, trainer Tom Morley told Fair Grounds publicity.

But Dimension, who upset the Buddy Diliberto Memorial Stakes on the Saturday card, could run back Jan. 13 in the Colonel E.R. Bradley Handicap. Letellier Stakes winner She’s Pretty Lucky could run next in the Jan. 28 Bara Lass Stakes for Texas-breds on Jan. 28 at Sam Houston.

Seeking the Soul worked a half-mile in 49.40 seconds Sunday morning at Fair Grounds and will make his next start Jan. 27 in the Pegasus World Cup, trainer Dallas Stewart said.

Stewart said Forever Unbridled, the Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner who was under Pegasus consideration, won’t start in the race. Forever Unbridled worked on Dec. 11, but Stewart said he has no plans to work the mare in coming days, and that he was slowing down her training right now. Stewart said plans call for Forever Unbridled to race again in 2018.

Principe Guilherme, the very promising 2-year-old, will make his stakes debut Jan. 13 at Fair Grounds in the Lecomte Stakes, according to trainer Steve Asmussen.

Gun Runner stepped up his preparation for the Pegasus World Cup on Jan. 27 at Gulfstream Park with a five-furlong workout Sunday at Fair Grounds.

Under his regular work rider Angel Garcia, Gun Runner was clocked in splits of 13.20, 25.40, and 49.40 on the way to an official five-furlong time of 1:00.80, meaning he really picked up his pace in the homestretch, going his final furlong to the wire in 11.40 seconds. Gun Runner’s gallop-out was timed in 1:14.60.

The Stronach Group sold nine of the 12 slots to its Pegasus World Cup prior to a Friday evening deadline for the transactions and will buy the other three $1 million slots with the intent of marketing them to late comers in the six weeks until the Jan. 27 race at its Gulfstream Park in south Florida, a top official of the company said on Friday just after the deadline had purportedly passed.

Friday afternoon is the deadline for horsemen to pick up slots for the Jan. 27 Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream, setting off a scramble of deal-making this week as top players weigh whether to buy a slot outright or strike a deal with parties that had already bought a place in the starting gate.

Gun Runner, this year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and likely Horse of the Year, is definitely in, with his owners purchasing a slot Thursday and sending in the mandatory $350,000 down payment, according to Ron Winchell, one of the owners of the horse.