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Neil Rogers coming to Gulfstream Saturday for Preakness

If you haven't seen Neil Rogers in person in a while -- and no one in South Florida has -- Saturday is your chance.

Rogers will be at Gulfstream Park and Casino from 3 p.m.-5 p.m Saturday, for the Preakness

"It will be the first time in 10 years that Neil's faithful listeners will be able to meet the radio legend in person," writes Lee Feldman of WQAM, which airs Rogers at 10 a.m. weekdays.

The event will include free Neil Rogers T-shirts for the first 100 people; free collectable Neil Rogers signed prints and other giveaways, including a listener tricycle race for a weekend getaway to the Clarion Resort and Water Park in Orlando.

Plus, Neil will be handicapping three of the Preakness races, where one listener for each race will receive a free $100 betting voucher to place a bet on the horse that Neil picks. If that horse wins, then the listener will get to keep the winnings, according to Feldman.

Rogers maintains a home in Florida although he broadcasts from Toronto from a state-of-the-art studio WQAM built in his apartment. It was announced on April 14 that Rogers agreed to a new five-year contract on WQAM, keeping him on the air until 2013.

Meanwhile, Gulfstream's Friday afternoon GP Advantage Betting Machine promotion, which started on Kentucky Derby weekend, is being expanded to Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

According to Gulfstream's Randy Abraham, every hour from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Silks Simulcast Center on the first floor, Gulfstream draws out a name.

The player steps into a glass booth, a stack of vouchers of various denominations is placed in the booth, the door is closed and the vouchers fly around in the booth. They are for up to $500 or for prizes such as a Toshiba laptop computer, a digital camera and a handheld GPS system.

The drawings are open to members of the GP Advantage Club, Gulfstream's horse player’s reward incentive program.

Racing analyst Ron Nicoletti emcees. Nicoletti conducts handicapping seminars at Gulfstream Park.

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