in support of affirmance is that appellants failed to satisfy prong (c) of step 1 because their counsel never requested that the trial court seek a reason from appellees for their challenges. Accordingly, appellees argue that Melbourne did not require the trial court to proceed any further. We disagree. Although appellants never actually requested that the trial court ask appellees to articulate a gender-neutral reason for their challenges, it is apparent that the trial court understood the nature of the objections. It would elevate form over substance to conclude that, even though the trial court understood the nature of the objections, those objections were insufficient to preserve the issue for appellate review. See, e.g., Franqui v. State, 699 So.2d 1332, 1334-35 (Fla.1997) (<HOLDING>); Pringle v. State, 792 So.2d 533, 535 (Fla. 3d
holding that where the defense peremptorily challenged a prospective juror and the prosecutor merely stated that she would challenge that strike the states objection was sufficient to allow inquiry into whether the juror was being challenged for nonracial reasons where the trial court clearly understood that the objection was that the challenge had been exercised because of the prospective jurors race holding an issue was preserved in part because the trial court immediately understood the basis of the objection holding that where defense counsel made a timely objection and it was overruled by the trial court a further request for a mistrial was unnecessary and futile since the reasons for the objection were apparent and the trial courts denial of the objection indicated its belief the jury could properly hear the matter which was the subject of the objection holding there was no constitutional presumption of juror bias where counsel asked the district court to make an inquiry into potential prejudice because the defendant was black and the prospective jurors were white holding that litigants have a duty to disclose their objection to a prospective juror by promptly bringing the matter to the attention of the trial court