Gulfstream Park’s first-ever summer racing program, to be run on Tuesday, will consist of eight races, all to be decided over the main track. The card is officially the final day of the 2012-2013 winter meet. The 2013 summer-fall session opens on July 1.

The first stakes race of the summer meet, the $100,000 Armed Forces, closed with 32 nominations including horses from the barns of trainers Todd Pletcher, Dale Romans and John Shirreffs. The Armed Forces is scheduled to be run at a mile and one-sixteenth on the turf on July 4. 

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – So Long George has displayed a winning touch for trainer John Charalambous.

Now, after a brief interruption in training when his barn was under quarantine, So Long George will be getting the acid test in Sunday’s Grade 2, $200,000 King Edward Stakes at Woodbine.

So Long George, who races for Leonard Zenith’s Up Hill Stable, has started once this season, knocking out his second allowance condition in an optional $62,500 claiming race at seven furlongs of turf.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Trainer Dino Condilenios is having a strong meet at Hastings, with 26 percent of his starters winning, and he also has won a couple of stakes races with Shrug.

In 2012, the partnership of Jorge Carmona and brothers Jose and Gustavo de la Torre won the Ed Burke Million Futurity at Los Alamitos with One Dashing Eagle. One Dashing Eagle went on to win the All American and Golden State Million futurities, and was named the World Champion Running Quarter Horse for 2012.

In Sunday’s $1,111,000 Burke Futurity, the owners are back again – as a team and competing separately.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – With the goal of starting in the $100,000 Oceanside Stakes at Del Mar on July 17, stakes winners Gabriel Charles and Rosengold are expected to dominate Sunday’s $70,000 Tsunami Slew at Betfair Hollywood Park.

Each has something to prove in the Tsunami Slew, which is run at a mile on turf for 3-year-olds.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer has been wanting to run the 3-year-old colt Outside Nashville against his own age group all year, and he finally gets his chance Sunday in the $50,000-added Livermore Valley Wines Stakes at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, Calif.

Outside Nashville, a son of Broken Vow who sold for $115,000 at the Ocala March sale as a juvenile, ran third at Del Mar last summer in his debut before finishing last in his next start.

Ellis Park will be closed for training Sunday and Monday as officials at the western Kentucky track attempt to clear the track of rocks that became enmeshed in the surface when a new batch of dirt was added.

Marty Maline, executive director of the Kentucky division of the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, said the issue has come to the forefront as prominent trainers such as Larry Jones have said they will not race at Ellis this summer.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A handful of jockeys who have ridden at Churchill Downs this spring will head to Saratoga when that upstate New York meet begins July 19, while the rest will ride at a combination of Ellis Park, Indiana Downs, and Arlington Park until racing returns here for the September meet.

Shaun Bridgmohan, who appears well on his way to the spring-meet riding title, will be back at Saratoga this summer, along with Rosie Napravnik, Alan Garcia, Joe Rocco Jr., and Robby Albarado.

ELMONT, N.Y. – In theory, Mischief Maker is stepping up in class when she goes from a New York-bred stakes to Sunday’s $90,000 Open Mind Stakes at Belmont Park. In reality, this race looks easier than the restricted Dancin Renee Handicap for state-breds on June 1, a race in which Mischief Maker finished a well-beaten fifth.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Street Gem, disqualified from a stakes placing last time out, gets another chance to earn her first black type on Sunday in the $60,000 Revidere Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on turf at Monmouth Park.

She faces six rivals in the 1 1/16-mile race in her first start since the Little Silver Stakes here on Memorial Day.

An in-the-money finish in a stakes is always valuable on a filly’s r é sum é . Trainer Kathleen O’Connell said she thought Street Gem had accomplished that in the Little Silver.