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Aaron Gryder Says:

The $500,000 Donn is the premier Grade 1 event for older horses at the Gulfstream Park meet. The favorite is Quality Road, who made his 2010 debut winning the Hals Hope pretty convincingly, beating two other horses that are entered in the Donn, Helsenki, who failed to menace him last time, and You and I Forever, who ran very well finishing less than 3 lengths behind him. The latter will still need a career best effort to win this, never having broken the 91 Beyer level, hardly whats needed for a Grade 1 race. Kiss the Kid and Duke of Mischief and Mambo Meister seem to be evenly matched, having come out of the Ft. Lauderdale here at Gulfstream Park and finishing within a length of each other. If Quality Road doesn\'t show up with his A game, either one of these has an outside shot. Dry Martini came out of that race too, finishing just a couple behind that pair, and he did win the Grade 2 Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park last year, so he has some talent in there somewhere. He has a couple of Grade 2s in his 30 race career, but never a Grade 1 yet. Past the Point is an enigma, coming off a sprint in the slop here at Gulfstream in the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector - he is fantastic at Saratoga, but at Gulfstream, hard to say how he will perform over a dry strip. Delightfull Kiss won the Grade 3 Hals Hope here last year, but could be off form. Dubai Gold completes the lineup.